◇ Could this help me?
Yes. This matches established connector-safety best practice exactly: least privilege, draft-only and never-delete rules for high-consequence tools like email, and a deliberate limits review before granting an AI any new capability, which meaningfully reduces the damage a misfire or prompt injection can do. It is a general practice for any Claude connector or tool setup, not project-specific, and it costs one prompt per new tool.
I am about to connect a new tool to Claude (I will name it below). Before I connect it, walk me through the guardrails I should set: what this tool could do at its most permissive (send, delete, share, spend, act on my behalf), the worst-case actions I should block entirely, the hard limits you recommend (for example draft-only, read-only, never delete, always ask before acting), which permissions to withhold at setup, and a safe way to test the connection before trusting it with real work. End with a short list of hard rules I can adopt as-is. The tool is: