Connect Gem to Claude Cowork
Give Claude Cowork governed access to Gem’s 15 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Gem to Claude Cowork in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude Cowork then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Add Gem to Runlayer
Gem isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Claude Cowork to Runlayer
Claude Cowork gets connector tools through the Runlayer Plugin. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Gem’s 15 tools show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.
Claude Cowork setup guide - 3
Sign in to Gem
Sign in the way Gem requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Gem from Claude Cowork
Gem’s approved tools appear in Claude Cowork. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
15 Gem tools in Claude Cowork
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Cowork users can call.
Get application
Look up one application (a candidate on a specific job) by ext_id — status, stage, stage_entry, gem_status (the Talent Pipeline's computed next-step status and SLA health, e.g. NEEDS_DECISION /…
Get job
Look up one job by ext_id — title, status, requisition id, ATS, department/office, and link.
Get metrics catalog
List the metrics and dimensions this team can report on with query_metrics.
Get person
Look up one candidate by ext_id — name, current title, company, school, emails, phone numbers, and links, plus optional fields (full work history, education, custom fields, applications, activity…
Get project
Look up one project by ext_id — name, description, owner, link, type, privacy, archived status, and people_count (candidates in the project).
Get saved report
Look up one saved analytics report (Pipeline Analytics or Outreach) by ext_id — its name, type, owner, link, and a ready-to-run query_metrics payload translated from the report's saved configuration.
Get sequence
Look up one outreach sequence by ext_id — name, status, whether it is a reusable template (is_template) and whether it is archived (is_archived), owner, link, a version (the sequence's edit version —…
Get sequence tokens
List the merge tokens available for writing a sequence stage's subject or body on this team.
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 Gem 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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