Automate workflows with custom starters and steps, third-party integrations, and webhooks in Workspace Studio

To expand the capabilities of Workspace Studio and help teams build powerful, custom automations, we are introducing four new features for flows in Workspace Studio: custom starters, custom steps, third-party (3P) integrations, and webhooks. These new capabilities empower users to seamlessly connect custom Google Apps Script functions, integrate third-party services, and trigger external webhooks directly within flows in Workspace Studio.

All of these features are backed by granular enterprise security controls that allow admins to safely enable and adopt agentic capabilities across their organizations.

  • Custom starters: Build and publish custom, real-time triggers to run flows based on events in other applications.

Custom starter that triggers a Studio Flow from an external application
  • Custom steps: Build and run custom logic (e.g. using Apps Script) and tailor flows to advanced business needs.

Create custom steps using Apps Script

  • Third-party integrations (Beta): Connect third-party applications and services to pass data effortlessly between Workspace and external tools to automate your business flows. The following integrations are available:
    • Asana
    • Confluence
    • Hubspot
    • Jira
    • Mailchimp
    • Quickbooks
    • Salesforce
    • Slack

Step to add a Jira comment in Studio Flows
  • Webhooks: Send HTTP requests to external endpoints and trigger actions in them. On supported editions, admins can set an URL allowlist for webhook access.

Webhook step in Studio Flows

Getting started

Rollout pace

Admin console settings

End-user visible features

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

*Webhook URL allowlist functionality is available for Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus

Resources

Introducing Expert Intelligence in Gemini Notebook

We’re introducing Expert Intelligence, a cross Google initiative that helps users engage with trusted sources through Google AI products, starting with Gemini Notebook. Featuring more than 100,000 books from major publishers, employees and students can now incorporate insights from leading authors, publications, and domain experts directly into Gemini Notebook.

Users will be able to add compatible ebooks they’ve purchased from Google Play Books directly to a Gemini Notebook, making it simple for them to ask questions about a book and receive responses grounded directly in its text. Readers can also use Gemini Notebooks to help you understand books in new ways, for example, by generating Infographics, Audio Overviews, Quizzes, or more. We’re also providing a book on us for users 18 years or older in the U.S. while supplies last.

Even better, employees and students can combine an author’s expertise with a variety of other sources, including their own information. For example:

  • A student can upload their class syllabus and lecture notes alongside a purchased book to generate an Audio Overview and practice quizzes to prepare for final exams.
  • A manager can ask Gemini Notebook to help brainstorm strategies on how to best give employees feedback and navigate tough conversations by consulting a book on management best practices.

Note: To interact with an ebook in a shared notebook—such as asking questions or creating artifacts—recipients must also have purchased an eligible Play Book ebook.

Getting started

  • Admins: In order for end users to access this feature, they must be in an OU with Gemini Notebook, Google Play, and Google Books set to On. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini Notebook and Google Play and Google Books on or off for users.
    • Tip: For students who need access only to specific books, admins can purchase books using Buy for Groups and allocate to the students without needing to provide Google Play access (available to organizations with Google Workspace for Education Plus or a Teaching & Learning add-on).
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. To see if a book is eligible for Expert Intelligence, visit Google Play Books. If the ebook is eligible, you’ll see Gemini Notebook listed when you click the “Tools” badge on a book’s detail page, or you can browse eligible books. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding Play Books ebooks as a source in Gemini Notebook.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who have Gemini Notebook, Google Play, and Google Books enabled

Resources

Stable Channel Update for ChromeOS / ChromeOS Flex

The Stable channel is being updated to OS version 16765.49.0 (Browser version 152.0.7977.129) for most ChromeOS devices.

If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following ways:


  1. File a bug

  2. Visit our ChromeOS communities

    1. General: Chromebook Help Community

    2. Beta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help Community

  3. Report an issue or send feedback on Chrome

  4. Interested in switching channels? Find out how.


Luis Menezes

Google ChromeOS

Agent Anomaly Detection, now in Private Preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Agent Anomaly Detection is a new, out-of-band oversight layer for the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform that analyzes OpenTelemetry traces and tool calls to catch behavioral risks without adding runtime latency to live requests. It utilizes a multi-tiered detection pipeline—combining lightweight statistical scanning with deep LLM-based reasoning—to identify logical anomalies and policy violations grounded in the OWASP Agentic Top 10. Developers can triage these automated findings within Security Command Center or leverage the exposed API to programmatically block subsequent tool calls when an agent breaches defined risk thresholds.

Agent Anomaly Detection, now in Private Preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Agent Anomaly Detection is a new, out-of-band oversight layer for the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform that analyzes OpenTelemetry traces and tool calls to catch behavioral risks without adding runtime latency to live requests. It utilizes a multi-tiered detection pipeline—combining lightweight statistical scanning with deep LLM-based reasoning—to identify logical anomalies and policy violations grounded in the OWASP Agentic Top 10. Developers can triage these automated findings within Security Command Center or leverage the exposed API to programmatically block subsequent tool calls when an agent breaches defined risk thresholds.

Early Stable Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 154.0.8037.44/.45 for Windows. as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.

You can find more details about early Stable releases here.

Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Srinivas Sista

Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 155 (155.0.8059.4) for Android. It's now available on Google Play.

You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Chrome Release Team
Google Chrome