How it works
From switching it on to the record it leaves behind. The screenshots are from a real session on a live scan.
1Switch it on and add your key
The assistant is off by default. Turn it on in Settings, read and accept the AI assistant terms, then paste an API key from console.anthropic.com or platform.openai.com — or one of each. DriveNest checks the key with the provider before it saves it.
- Default assistant — Claude or GPT for new analyses
- Model — one choice per provider, from the most thorough to the cheapest
- Reasoning effort — Low, Medium or High; higher explores more carefully and uses more tokens
- Spending limit per run — $0.50, $1, $2 or $5; the assistant pauses when an analysis or follow-up reaches it
- Starting prompts — edit the one-tap prompts the assistant offers, up to 12 of your own
2Tell it what to look for
Tap Ask AI on the storage card of your Google Drive or OneDrive dashboard. Type a goal, tap one of the starting prompts, or just press Start — the default goal is to free up as much space as possible.
- Free up as much space as possible
- Find duplicates and leftover copies
- Find old projects and forgotten folders
- Check what I am sharing with other people
The line under the button tells you exactly what you are about to spend: the model, the per-run limit and whose account is billed.
3Watch it explore
The Conversation tab shows each step as it happens — Reviewing duplicate files, Recording suggestion — along with a summary of the model’s reasoning, so you can see why it looked where it did. A running token count and cost estimate sits under the input box.
The assistant explores through a set of read-only tools: an overview of the scan, folder listings and statistics, file search by size, age, type, sharing and version overhead, duplicate groups and item details. DriveNest does the arithmetic: every count and size the model quotes back was computed by the app from your scan, not estimated by the AI.
When it is done, ask a follow-up in the same conversation — “leave the Photos folder alone”, “what about files older than five years?” — and it can refine, replace or withdraw its suggestions. Leave the screen and come back while the app is open, and the session is still there.
4Review the suggestions — then decide
The Suggestions tab collects everything the assistant proposed, with the total space you would free by acting on all of them. Each card has an action, a confidence level, the exact size and file count, and a plain-language reason.
- Remove — move the files to the bin
- Unshare — stop sharing files you shared with others
- Remove old versions — reclaim version history charged to your quota
- Review — worth a look, but no action proposed
Review files opens the full file list. From there you act exactly as you would anywhere else in DriveNest — an Apps Script you deploy and run on Google Drive, an in-app action on OneDrive — with the same confirmation, scripts, action history and undo. The assistant adds no new way to delete anything.
5Keep a record
Every session is written to Action history: the provider and model, how many runs, the tokens used, the estimated cost, how long the last run took, the messages you sent and every suggestion — including the exact list of files each one covered. Cleanups you start from a suggestion are tagged as coming from it, so you can always trace an action back to the advice behind it.
The assistant’s own replies are deliberately not logged, because they contain your file names and paths. History is for reference only; acting on a suggestion always goes through a live session.
