Connect Granola to Claude Code
Give Claude Code governed access to Granola’s 7 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Granola to Claude Code in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude Code then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Approve Granola in Runlayer
Add Granola from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
Connect Claude Code to Runlayer
Runlayer’s CLI installs the Runlayer Plugin natively in Claude Code, and an Anthropic org install also reaches Claude Code. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Granola’s 7 tools show up in Claude Code’s own tool list (supported Claude Code versions).
Claude Code setup guide - 3
Sign in to Granola
Sign in the way Granola requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Granola from Claude Code
Granola’s approved tools appear in Claude Code. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
7 Granola tools in Claude Code
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Code users can call. 4 read data only.
Get account info
Get the email, active workspace, joined workspaces (names and IDs), and effective note-access scopes for the Granola account currently connected to this MCP session.
Get meeting transcript
Get the full transcript for a specific Granola meeting by ID.
Get meetings
Get detailed meeting information for one or more Granola meetings by ID.
List meeting folders
List the user's Granola meeting folders.
List meetings
List the user's Granola meeting notes within a time range.
Query Granola meetings
Query Granola about the user's meetings using natural language.
Switch workspace
Change your saved active Granola workspace.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Claude Code
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Claude Code exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Granola call from Claude Code passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Claude Code as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Client hooks (available)
Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.
Anthropic inference hooks (available)
With Claude Enterprise, Anthropic sends each governed Claude Code prompt to Runlayer before inference, with nothing installed on devices (Anthropic beta).
OTLP telemetry (available)
Claude Code can export OpenTelemetry logs to Runlayer for observe-only session reconstruction.
Stop a call before it runs (available)
Runlayer can deny a tool call before Claude Code runs it.
Block output after it runs (available)
Runlayer can block a tool’s output before Claude Code’s model sees it.
Redact output in place (available)
Runlayer can mask sensitive parts of a tool’s output in Claude Code and pass the rest through.
In Claude Code
- When a tool fails, Runlayer records the error but cannot hide it.
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