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Connect Looker to Claude Code

Give Claude Code governed access to Looker’s 30 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Looker to Claude Code in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude Code then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Looker in Runlayer

    Add Looker from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 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, Looker’s 30 tools show up in Claude Code’s own tool list (supported Claude Code versions).

    Claude Code setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Looker

    Each user signs in to Looker with OAuth. Runlayer keeps the tokens out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Looker from Claude Code

    Looker’s approved tools appear in Claude Code. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

30 Looker tools in Claude Code

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Code users can call.

  • Dev mode

    Allows toggling the Looker IDE session between Development Mode and Production Mode.

  • Generate embed URL

    Generates a signed, private embed URL for specific Looker content, allowing users to access it directly.

  • Get connection databases

    Retrieves a list of databases available through a specified Looker connection.

  • Get connection schemas

    Retrieves a list of database schemas available through a specified Looker connection.

  • Get connection table columns

    Retrieves a list of columns for one or more specified tables within a given database schema and connection.

  • Get connection tables

    Retrieves a list of tables available within a specified database schema through a Looker connection.

  • Get connections

    Retrieves a list of all database connections configured in the Looker system.

  • Get dashboards

    Searches for saved dashboards in a Looker instance.

See all 30 Looker tools

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 Looker 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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