Google: Adds a delegate with its verification status set directly to `accepted`, without sending any verification email The delegate user must be a member of the same Google Workspace organization as the delegator user For more information, see Manage delegates (https: developers google com workspace gmail api guides delegate settings) Gmail imposes limitations on the number of delegates and delegators each user in a Google Workspace organization can have These limits depend on your organization, but in general each user can have up to 25 delegates and up to 10 delegators A delegate user must be referred to by their primary email address, and not an email alias When a new delegate is created, there may be up to a one minute delay before the new delegate is available for use This method is only available to service account clients that have been delegated domain-wide authority

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Contract 2026-10-27 · Operation google.gmail_users_settings_delegates_create

Provider route: POST /gmail/v1/users/{userId}/settings/delegates. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.

Call through Alter

Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/google with npm, or alter-sdk-google with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.

import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";
import { GoogleIntegration } from "@alter-ai/google";

async function execute(input: Parameters<GoogleIntegration["gmailUsersSettingsDelegates"]["gmailUsersSettingsDelegatesCreate"]>[0]) {
  const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! });
  try {
    const provider = new GoogleIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! });
    const call = await provider.gmailUsersSettingsDelegates.gmailUsersSettingsDelegatesCreate(input);
    const result = await call.wait();
    return result.bodyJson();
  } finally {
    await app.close();
  }
}

import os
from alter_sdk import App
from alter_sdk_google import GoogleIntegration

async def execute(arguments):
    async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app:
        provider = GoogleIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]})
        call = await provider.gmail_users_settings_delegates.gmail_users_settings_delegates_create(arguments)
        result = await call.wait()
        return result.body_json()

Input

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
path	object	Required within parent	Additional keys: not allowed
path.userId	string	Required within parent	User’s email address. The special value “me” can be used to indicate the authenticated user. Default: me
query	object	Optional	Additional keys: not allowed
query.fields	string	Optional	Selector specifying which fields to include in a partial response.
query.prettyPrint	boolean	Optional	Returns response with indentations and line breaks. Default: true
query.quotaUser	string	Optional	Available to use for quota purposes for server-side applications. Can be any arbitrary string assigned to a user, but should not exceed 40 characters.
body	Model	Required within parent	Expand Adds a delegate with its verification status set directly to `accepted`, without sending any verification email The delegate user must be a member of the same Google Workspace organization as the delegator user For more information, see Manage delegates (https: developers google com workspace gmail api guides delegate settings) Gmail imposes limitations on the number of delegates and delegators each user in a Google Workspace organization can have These limits depend on your organization, but in general each user can have up to 25 delegates and up to 10 delegators A delegate user must be referred to by their primary email address, and not an email alias When a new delegate is created, there may be up to a one minute delay before the new delegate is available for use This method is only available to service account clients that have been delegated domain-wide authority — request body — body

Referenced models: Adds a delegate with its verification status set directly to `accepted`, without sending any verification email The delegate user must be a member of the same Google Workspace organization as the delegator user For more information, see Manage delegates (https: developers google com workspace gmail api guides delegate settings) Gmail imposes limitations on the number of delegates and delegators each user in a Google Workspace organization can have These limits depend on your organization, but in general each user can have up to 25 delegates and up to 10 delegators A delegate user must be referred to by their primary email address, and not an email alias When a new delegate is created, there may be up to a one minute delay before the new delegate is available for use This method is only available to service account clients that have been delegated domain-wide authority — request body — body

Response

Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	Model	Root	Expand Gets the specified delegate For more information, see Manage delegates (https: developers google com workspace gmail api guides delegate settings) A delegate user must be referred to by their primary email address, and not an email alias This method is only available to service account clients that have been delegated domain-wide authority — response body

Referenced models: Gets the specified delegate For more information, see Manage delegates (https: developers google com workspace gmail api guides delegate settings) A delegate user must be referred to by their primary email address, and not an email alias This method is only available to service account clients that have been delegated domain-wide authority — response body

Policy, approvals and errors

SDK function policy ID: google.gmail_users_settings_delegates_create. Catalog operation: gmail.users.settings.delegates.create. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.

Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.

Required provider scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.sharing"]

Official provider source