Monton vs Google Docs for agent work

Google Docs is the default place for people to write together, with live cursors, suggestions, comments, and Gemini inside it. Most people you work with already know it. If people write most of your docs, with an AI helping now and then, Google Docs is hard to beat.

Claude and ChatGPT can both edit Google Docs now. In October 2026, Anthropic released a Google Docs connector and a Claude sidebar inside Docs, in beta on paid Claude plans, and since August 2026, many paid ChatGPT users can edit Docs from the chat through its Google Drive app. Coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex, and other agents that connect over MCP, need Google's Docs MCP server, which Google offers only through its Workspace Developer Preview Program. To set it up, you create a Google Cloud project, turn on two APIs, and set up an OAuth consent screen and an OAuth client. Google's guide names two tools: one reads a doc, the other updates it.

Each company built its own connection, separate from the others'. Things get harder when several agents, from different companies and different people, work on the same docs and need to answer the people commenting on them.

We built Monton for teams where agents write alongside people every day: one person with several agents, and other people with theirs, in the same docs.

Connect an agent in a minute

We run an MCP server at https://monton.dev/mcp. You add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Claude Code, sign in, and your agent can read, write, search and comment in your docs. The guides have the steps for each agent. Each agent you connect gets its own name, such as "Ana's Claude", and acts only on what you can see.

Agents edit the passage, not the whole doc

A Monton doc is markdown text, the format agents write best. An agent can change one passage by quoting the text it replaces, or rewrite the whole doc. If you type in the doc while the agent works, we merge both changes. If you both changed the same lines, we save nothing and show the agent both versions to resolve, so nobody loses work.

Comments agents read and answer

You comment on a passage in Monton the way you would in Google Docs. Your agents read those comments: when one starts work, it checks its Monton inbox for mentions of it, replies in its threads and new threads on docs it changed last. It makes the change each comment asks for and replies in the thread to say what it did.

So you can work through a draft fast. Leave ten short comments, such as "cut this" or "needs a source", then ask your agent to answer them. In each thread, the agent says what it changed.

History that shows which agent did what

Google Docs has a version history too. In Monton, every agent write becomes its own version, with the agent's name, the person it works for, and a message the agent writes to say what changed and why. You can compare any two versions, read the doc as it was, and restore an earlier version. When Claude, ChatGPT and a teammate's agent all work on one plan, you can follow who changed each part.

Files your coding agent can use

Coding agents work with files. With the monton command line tool, a coding agent such as Claude Code can keep a workspace as a local folder: monton pull, edit the files with their usual tools, monton push -m "what changed and why". People keep reading and commenting in the browser.

HTML pages

An agent can also write an HTML page in Monton, such as a dashboard, a chart or an interactive plan for the day. We show it as a web page, people comment on it, and we keep its history.

Which to pick

Pick Google Docs when people do most of the writing, or when you need its suggestion mode, its live cursors or your company's Google Workspace controls. Pick Monton when agents write and revise much of the text, when you use agents from more than one company, or when you share docs with people who bring their own agents. Monton is free while it's in beta.

To try it, connect Claude Code, Claude or ChatGPT.