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Connect Socket to Claude Code

Give Claude Code governed access to Socket’s 1 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Socket 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 Socket in Runlayer

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

  2. 2

    Connect Claude Code to Runlayer

    Install the Runlayer CLI so Claude Code can reach Socket, which runs on the user’s machine. Auto Sync can then write Socket into Claude Code on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

    Claude Code setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Socket

    An admin adds Socket credentials to Runlayer once. They never sit in the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Socket from Claude Code

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

Tools

1 Socket tools in Claude Code

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Code users can call. 1 read data only.

  • Depscore

    Query dependency security scores across npm, PyPI, cargo, and other package ecosystems.

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 Socket 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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