diff --git a/src/adapters/providers/gcalendar.ts b/src/adapters/providers/gcalendar.ts
index 2d20d7b..d44a897 100644
--- a/src/adapters/providers/gcalendar.ts
+++ b/src/adapters/providers/gcalendar.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,20 @@ export const gcalendarManifest: ProviderManifest = {
   auth: { type: 'bearer' },
   // Google answers 401 for a bad credential and keeps 403 for a disabled API
   // or a missing scope, neither of which reconnecting fixes.
-  errors: { forbidden: 'upstream_error' },
+  errors: {
+    forbidden: 'upstream_error',
+    // Google spends 403 on two unrelated things: a scope this grant never got,
+    // and an API that was never enabled. Only the first is fixed by
+    // reconnecting, and bodyFailure runs ahead of the 403 arm so it can say so.
+    // SERVICE_DISABLED is not in codes, so it keeps falling through to
+    // upstream_error.
+    bodyFailure: {
+      path: 'error.status',
+      equals: 'PERMISSION_DENIED',
+      codeFrom: 'error.errors.0.reason',
+      codes: { insufficientPermissions: 'reauth_required' },
+    },
+  },
   pagination: {
     style: 'cursor',
     size: 25,
diff --git a/src/adapters/providers/gdrive.ts b/src/adapters/providers/gdrive.ts
index 7400e61..67a7fd8 100644
--- a/src/adapters/providers/gdrive.ts
+++ b/src/adapters/providers/gdrive.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,20 @@ export const gdriveManifest: ProviderManifest = {
   // every existing Google connection re-consents once either way.
   scopes: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'],
   auth: { type: 'bearer' },
-  errors: { forbidden: 'upstream_error' },
+  errors: {
+    forbidden: 'upstream_error',
+    // Google spends 403 on two unrelated things: a scope this grant never got,
+    // and an API that was never enabled. Only the first is fixed by
+    // reconnecting, and bodyFailure runs ahead of the 403 arm so it can say so.
+    // SERVICE_DISABLED is not in codes, so it keeps falling through to
+    // upstream_error.
+    bodyFailure: {
+      path: 'error.status',
+      equals: 'PERMISSION_DENIED',
+      codeFrom: 'error.errors.0.reason',
+      codes: { insufficientPermissions: 'reauth_required' },
+    },
+  },
   pagination: {
     style: 'cursor',
     size: 25,
diff --git a/src/adapters/providers/gmail.ts b/src/adapters/providers/gmail.ts
index 5cb211a..a50e875 100644
--- a/src/adapters/providers/gmail.ts
+++ b/src/adapters/providers/gmail.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,20 @@ export const gmailManifest: ProviderManifest = {
   // Google answers 401 when the credential is bad. A 403 is something else,
   // most often an API that was never enabled on the project, and telling
   // someone to reconnect a healthy grant sends them the wrong way.
-  errors: { forbidden: 'upstream_error' },
+  errors: {
+    forbidden: 'upstream_error',
+    // Google spends 403 on two unrelated things: a scope this grant never got,
+    // and an API that was never enabled. Only the first is fixed by
+    // reconnecting, and bodyFailure runs ahead of the 403 arm so it can say so.
+    // SERVICE_DISABLED is not in codes, so it keeps falling through to
+    // upstream_error.
+    bodyFailure: {
+      path: 'error.status',
+      equals: 'PERMISSION_DENIED',
+      codeFrom: 'error.errors.0.reason',
+      codes: { insufficientPermissions: 'reauth_required' },
+    },
+  },
   pagination: {
     style: 'cursor',
     size: 25,
diff --git a/test/providers/google-workspace.test.ts b/test/providers/google-workspace.test.ts
index 531a0cf..66ff9f0 100644
--- a/test/providers/google-workspace.test.ts
+++ b/test/providers/google-workspace.test.ts
@@ -71,6 +71,50 @@ describe('one google application, three prefixes', () => {
   })
 })
 
+describe('a google grant that predates a scope widening', () => {
+  // Google's shape for both cases, differing only in reason.
+  const refusal = (reason: string) => ({
+    error: {
+      code: 403,
+      status: 'PERMISSION_DENIED',
+      message: 'refused',
+      errors: [{ domain: 'global', reason, message: 'refused' }],
+    },
+  })
+
+  it('tells a caller to reconnect when the grant is missing the scope', async () => {
+    for (const provider of [gmailProvider(), gcal, gdrive]) {
+      const upstream = fakeUpstream([
+        { match: /./, status: 403, body: refusal('insufficientPermissions') },
+      ])
+      const err = await provider
+        .callTool(ctx(upstream), provider.listTools()[0]!.name, {})
+        .catch((e) => e)
+      expect(err.code, provider.prefix).toBe('reauth_required')
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('still refuses to blame the credential when the API was never enabled', async () => {
+    // The case errors.forbidden exists for. Reconnecting cannot fix it, so it
+    // must not come back as reauth_required.
+    for (const provider of [gmailProvider(), gcal, gdrive]) {
+      const upstream = fakeUpstream([{ match: /./, status: 403, body: refusal('SERVICE_DISABLED') }])
+      const err = await provider
+        .callTool(ctx(upstream), provider.listTools()[0]!.name, {})
+        .catch((e) => e)
+      expect(err.code, provider.prefix).toBe('upstream_error')
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('leaves a 401 to the arm that already handles it', async () => {
+    const upstream = fakeUpstream([
+      { match: /./, status: 401, body: { error: { code: 401, status: 'UNAUTHENTICATED' } } },
+    ])
+    const err = await gcal.callTool(ctx(upstream), 'list_calendars', {}).catch((e) => e)
+    expect(err.code).toBe('reauth_required')
+  })
+})
+
 describe('google calendar writes', () => {
   it('nests a start time under start.dateTime from a flat argument', async () => {
     // The manifest reaches into the body with a dotted param, and Calendar