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Gmail connector: untrash_message fails with "no permission" even though trash_message succeeds

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Description

## Bug: Gmail connector `untrash_message` fails with "The caller does not have permission" even though `trash_message` on the same message succeeds

**Environment:** Claude Code, first-party Gmail connector (Customize → Connectors → Gmail)

**Steps to reproduce:**
1. Connect the Gmail connector (disconnect + reconnect if it was previously connected with a narrower scope). The OAuth consent URL includes `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify` in its scope list.
2. Call `trash_message` on any message ID. Succeeds — a follow-up `get_message` shows `TRASH` added to `labelIds`.
3. Immediately call `untrash_message` on the *same* message ID.

**Expected:** the message is restored from Trash (analogous to Gmail's own "Move to Inbox" action).

**Actual:** the call fails with:
```
The caller does not have permission
```

**Reproduced twice in a row**, immediately after `trash_message` succeeded on the same message — which rules out a missing/stale OAuth scope, since a sibling write operation on the identical message worked a moment earlier with the same grant.

**Workaround found and verified:** calling `unlabel_message` with `labelIds: ["TRASH"]`, followed by `label_message` with `labelIds: ["INBOX"]`, achieves the same net effect as untrash (confirmed via `get_message` read-back both times) — both calls succeed with no error.

**Conclusion:** `label_message` / `unlabel_message` / `trash_message` all work correctly with the granted scope; `untrash_message` specifically appears to have a bug independent of OAuth scope. `untrash_thread` was not directly tested but is presumably affected by the same underlying issue since it's in the same tool family.

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Research direction

No source file or test is named in the report. Start by reproducing the sequence, then locate the Gmail connector implementations for untrash_message, trash_message, unlabel_message, and label_message and compare their requests; done means untrash_message restores the message without the permission error, with regression coverage for the reported behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
google-cloud
Domain
api
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
72/100

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