Files

Files (Drive) shows your private files and the files in your groups. Pick a group to see only its files and upload straight to it; uploads from the all-files view are private.

Uploading and sharing

• Each file can be up to 25 MiB. Each person’s private files and each group’s files can total up to 1 GiB, a safety limit rather than a plan.
• Share to a group copies a private file into the group. The copy is separate: deleting your original doesn’t remove it.
• Every group member can read and upload the group’s files. Only the uploader or the group owner can delete one. Files stay with the group when their uploader leaves.
• Stored files cost a little each day; see Credits and usage. When you’re out of credits you can still download and delete, but not upload.

What Gluon can read

Ask “read the PDF I uploaded” or “what does the lease say about pets?” Gluon reads files from your Drive, your email attachments and the current chat:

File	How Gluon reads it
Images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP) up to 3 MiB	Sees the image
PDFs up to 10 MiB and 100 pages	Sees the pages; larger PDFs and later pages as text
Word, Excel, OpenDocument, Numbers, HTML, XML	Converted to text
Text, CSV, JSON	Reads the text

Scanned PDFs without a text layer can only be read as images; there’s no OCR for their text. Long documents are read in parts, and Gluon tells you when something was cut off. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 can’t take PDFs directly, so it reads their text instead.

Gluon treats what’s inside files as information, never as instructions to follow.

Showing and saving files

• Gluon can show a file beside the chat without reading it, such as “show me the insurance PDF”. Showing publishes nothing.
• Gluon can save files into your Drive, such as a report it made in its workspace or an email attachment.

Previews

Tap a file to open it in the side panel:

• PDFs, images, audio and video;
• Excel, CSV and TSV as a grid with sheet tabs, and Word documents as pages;
• Markdown rendered, and code highlighted;
• HTML and SVG rendered safely: no scripts run and nothing loads from the internet.

Other files, such as PowerPoint, offer Download.

Temporary download links

Some services, such as a printer you connected, need to download a file without signing in to Gluon. Gluon can create a temporary link for a file:

• Anyone holding the link can download the file until it expires, so it asks for your approval by default.
• Links last from 1 minute to 7 days; one hour by default. Ask for the shortest that works.
• The file is copied when the link is made, so later edits don’t change it.
• You can have up to 30 unexpired links, each for a file up to 8 MiB.
• Deleting the chat the link came from revokes it at once. Copies already downloaded can’t be recalled.

To just look at your own file, ask Gluon to show it instead; that creates no link.