Goose session fails to start with gdrive extension on Mac

[developer1garg]

Describe the bug

Goose session fails to start with gdrive extension on Mac.

Failed to start extension: gdrive, "Failed to start the MCP server from configuration `Stdio(gdrive: npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive)` `Call to '' failed for 'initialize'. Error from mcp-server: Stdio process error: Credentials not found. Please run with 'auth' argument first.\n`"
Please check extension configuration for gdrive.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Follow instructions on Google Drive Extension tutorial to add the extension
2. The problem is in step 5 "Add your environment variables"
3. The path for the two extension variables mentioned in the instructions is relative to home directory. It should be absolute, instead.

Expected behavior
Goose session should start without any issue

Actual behavior
Goose session fails to start

Please provide following information:

• OS & Arch: [macOS Sequoia 15.3.1 x86]
• Interface: CLI
• Version: [1.0.10]
• Extensions enabled: [developer, gdrive]
• Provider & Model: [Bedrock Nova]

Additional context

Fix
The path of files should be absolute path, not relative to user home directory. Either the instructions page needs an update, or a section can be added in the troubleshooting page.

[kalvinnchau]

Hi @developer1garg in step five the paths are listed as ~/.config/.gdrive-server-credentials.json and ~/.config/gcp-oauth.keys.json is the issue that those are not resolved by the upstream https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/gdrive extension?

[developer1garg]

@kalvinnchau - i don't know where they need to be resolved. I can tell you the problem that if i provide relative paths, i get an error. If i provide absolute paths for these 2 environment variables, the extension works fine.

[developer1garg]

I am sure if the instructions mention relative path, they'd have worked in someone's environment. But, they didn't work in mine.