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Connect DeepWiki to Claude Cowork

Give Claude Cowork governed access to DeepWiki’s 4 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

Set up

Add DeepWiki to Claude Cowork in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve DeepWiki in Runlayer

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

  2. 2

    Connect Claude Cowork to Runlayer

    Claude Cowork gets connector tools through the Runlayer Plugin. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, DeepWiki’s 4 tools show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.

    Claude Cowork setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to DeepWiki

    Sign in the way DeepWiki requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use DeepWiki from Claude Cowork

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

Tools

4 DeepWiki tools in Claude Cowork

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

  • Ask question

    Ask any question about a GitHub repository and get an AI-powered, context-grounded response.

  • Ask wiki question

    Ask any question about a GitHub repository's codebase and get an AI-powered answer grounded in its DeepWiki.

  • Read wiki contents

    View documentation about a GitHub repository.

  • Read wiki structure

    Get a list of documentation topics for a GitHub repository.

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Claude Cowork

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Claude Cowork exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every DeepWiki call from Claude Cowork passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Claude Cowork as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Anthropic inference hooks (available)

    Anthropic Inference hooks let Runlayer check Claude Cowork prompts before inference.

  • OTLP telemetry (available)

    Claude Cowork can send supported OpenTelemetry events to Runlayer for observe-only session visibility.

  • Stop a call before it runs (available)

    Runlayer can reject a Claude Cowork prompt before Anthropic runs it, which stops the whole request rather than one tool call.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Because Runlayer checks the full prompt, tool results in it can be blocked before the model sees them.

  • Redact output in place (not available)

    Runlayer cannot mask content in Claude Cowork. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

In Claude Cowork

  • Cowork session data sent over OpenTelemetry is for monitoring only and cannot stop anything.

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