• Goal: Be able to have Claude Code do increasingly more stuff for me as a general purpose agent.

• Pre Requisite: It can access my files (or a subset of them), for example legal documents, spreadsheets, returns etc.

• Background: I want those files to be stored on Google Drive, because A) Several of them are Google files that need to be shareable, and B) I want to keep everything in the cloud for data safety & portability

• Additional Requirement: I'd like to primarily use "Cloud Claude", but I'd also like to be able to use it locally from time to time - so ideally it would be "operating" on the same set of files whether running locally or remotely, and I wouldn't need to think about that.

• Challenge: How do I share the data between my local machine, and the virtual machine where Claude is running.

• Explored: Syncthing, rclone. Decided on insync because I want something that's seamless to set up and just works

Steps

• Create a folder in Google Drive - I called mine "Universe". Copy everything in here that you'd like to ultimately use with the agent.

• Purchase a new VM on Hetzner or Contabo

• Install & Set up insync-headless (instructions here)

• curl -L -o insync-headless.deb https://cdn.insynchq.com/builds/linux/3.2.7.10758/insync-headless_3.2.7.10758-buster_amd64.deb
  sudo apt-get install ./insync-headless.deb

• Start it

• insync-headless start

• Get a sync auth code

  • Visit https://connect.insynchq.com/auth?cloud=gd

• Add the account

• insync-headless account add -p /sync -c gd -a YOURCODEHERE 

• Set up selective sync - you don't want it syncing your entire G drive

•  insync-headless selective-sync

• Use the interactive UI to select just the "Universe" folder

• That's it. You should now have a folder in your G Drive being synced to your remote VM