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gatherFiles

Gather Files

Plan a gather across drives: given indexed files, group them by drive and report which drives are plugged in vs.

read

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "gather these files", and it calls gatherFiles.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "fileIds": [
      "<fileIds>"
    ]
  },
  "name": "gatherFiles"
}

Arguments

• destinationstringoptionalOptional destination path the user wants files copied to
• fileIdsstring[]requireddriveFiles ids to gather (from searchFiles results)

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• gather these files
• collect X from my drives
• which drive do I need for these
• pull these together

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• searchFiles
• getFileContext

Questions

• What does gatherFiles do?

  Plan a gather across drives: given indexed files, group them by drive and report which drives are plugged in vs. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use gatherFiles from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "gather these files", and it calls gatherFiles.

• Is gatherFiles safe to let an AI call?

  gatherFiles is read-only: it changes nothing.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.