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Other lookups

Most questions in a day are small ones — someone's number, how long the drive takes, whether to bring a coat, what that thing you half-remember is actually called. None of them are worth opening a browser for. Pepper answers them in the same conversation as everything else, drawing on the wider world and on the people you know.

People & contacts

If you've connected Contacts (see Connecting your accounts), Pepper can look people up for you: "What's Sam's email?", "Look up Priya's number", "Who's Jordan in the company directory?" It searches your saved Google Contacts and, for work or school accounts, your organization's directory. It can also tell you about your own connected profile ("what email am I signed in as?").

The everyday payoff is quieter than a direct lookup: when you say "email Sam" or "schedule with Priya," Pepper resolves the name to a verified address from your contacts or directory instead of guessing. And when it's about to send, it won't use an address it can't stand behind — one you gave it directly, one in your contacts or directory, someone you've emailed before, or a person it already knows all count. If you have several Google accounts connected, ask about one by name ("check my work contacts") or let Pepper check them all.

Good to know: this is a search, not a way to list everyone — ask for a name, part of a name, or an address, and Pepper matches it literally. There's no wildcard, so "show me all my contacts" isn't a question it can answer; ask for the person you actually want. If a search comes up empty, that means nothing matched that search — not that your address book is empty.

Files in Google Drive

If you've connected Drive (see Connecting your accounts), Pepper can find things in it: "Find the Q3 budget in my Drive", "What's in my Taxes folder?", "Pull up the deck I shared with Priya." You can search by what a file is called or by what's inside it, ask for a folder by name and then look at what's in it, or paste a Drive link and ask about that file. Pepper can also read the comment thread on a document, sheet, or slide deck — "what did people comment on the roadmap doc?" — including replies and whether each thread was resolved.

Pepper can read what's inside your Docs, Sheets, and Slides too, so you can ask about a file's actual contents rather than only finding it:

All of this rides on the same read-only Drive connection — there's nothing extra to turn on. If you have several Google accounts connected, Pepper looks across all of them and tells you which one a file came from; you can also scope it to one ("check my work Drive").

Good to know: Drive access is read-only throughout. Pepper can find and read, but it can't create, rename, move, delete, or share files, it can't edit a document, sheet, or deck, and it can't change who has access to something. Reading is also text-only — images, charts, and formatting inside a file don't come through, and a spreadsheet's formulas come back as the values they produce rather than the formulas themselves.

Web search

Pepper can search the web and read web pages to answer current questions — news, facts, how-tos, product info, "what happened with X." If you paste a link, it can read that page and summarize or answer questions about it. Just ask naturally: "What's the latest on …?", "Summarize this article: <link>."

Running calculations

Where it's switched on, Pepper can write a short Python program and run it, so a sum, a date calculation, a unit conversion or a bit of number-crunching comes from actually computing it rather than from Pepper's head. "What's 18% on $243.50 split five ways?", "How many working days between March 3 and June 19?", "Average these numbers." It's offered in one-on-one chats and in research skills, so a group room has it only if the room has been given a research skill.

Good to know: each run is on its own, with no memory of earlier runs and no access to your files, accounts or the conversation. Pepper passes in only the numbers the calculation needs, and those leave Pepper for the outside sandbox that runs the program. It's meant for arithmetic and small data, not charts, files or anything that needs the internet. If the sandbox changes the program or can't run it, Pepper says so instead of presenting a result.

Places & directions

Pepper can look up places and local information — businesses, addresses, hours, and rough directions or travel context. "Find a good ramen place near downtown", "How far is the airport from here?", "What's open near the office right now?"

Weather

Pepper can check the weather for a location. "What's the weather today?", "Will it rain in Denver this weekend?", "What's it doing all week in Lisbon?"

It reaches up to a week ahead, naming each day the way you would — today, tomorrow, then the weekday. Forecasts get less certain the further out they go, so a day Pepper can't get a real read on is left off rather than guessed at; you may ask for seven days and get five.

If you've set your location in your profile, your morning brief can include a quick weather line automatically, and that line follows however far ahead your brief looks (see Reminders & scheduling).

Creating images

Pepper can make images from a description: "Make me a picture of a fox reading a book," "Design a simple logo for my supper club," "Turn this into a watercolor." You can also ask it to edit or restyle an image you've already shared or that Pepper made earlier — just refer to it and say what to change. Each result is saved to your Images app (see Images) — and to your artifacts, which is the same collection seen another way. Where the channel can carry a picture, the picture itself comes back — inline in web chat, in an email, and as an MMS or a WhatsApp image in a text thread — with a link to your library alongside it, for finding it again later. Where it can't, Pepper says so and gives you the link instead, rather than sending one without explaining why. You can set the shape too ("make it a wide banner," "square for a profile picture"). If you've named a reference in the Images app — a photo of yourself called "Me", say — you can use that name in the description and Pepper will draw from that picture: "put Me on a beach at sunset".

Good to know: generated images carry an invisible watermark identifying them as AI-made, and Pepper creates images from your description — it can't paste in real photos of specific real people.

How these fit together

These lookups often combine with your own data — for example, a morning brief blends your calendar, your feeds, and the weather; a question about what's on this weekend uses your location and interests. You don't need to invoke them by name; just ask the question and Pepper reaches for whatever it needs.

Your usage allowance

Once usage limits are switched on, Pepper can tell you where you stand: "Am I running low?", "Why didn't my task run?" It reports one of three states, normal, running low, or limited, when your allowance refills, and which things are paused until then. The same status shows in Settings under Usage when you are running low or limited.

Good to know: when you are limited, chat keeps working on a lighter model with fewer tool steps, and Pepper only stops replying entirely if you go well past your allowance. Scheduled tasks, background work and voice pause until the refill, and a scheduled task that comes due in that stretch is skipped, not run late. Your morning brief is not affected by your own allowance. Pepper does not quote prices or offer to take payment here.

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