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Connect Google Slides to Claude Cowork

Give Claude Cowork governed access to Google Slides’s 28 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Google Slides 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 Google Slides in Runlayer

    Add Google Slides 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, Google Slides’s 28 tools show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.

    Claude Cowork setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Google Slides

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

  4. 4

    Use Google Slides from Claude Cowork

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

Tools

28 Google Slides tools in Claude Cowork

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Cowork users can call. 6 read data only and 2 can change or delete data.

  • Add comment

    Add a comment to a Google Slides presentation.

  • Add image

    Add an image to a slide from a URL.

  • Add line

    Add a line or connector to a slide.

  • Add shape

    Add a shape (rectangle, ellipse, etc.) to a slide.

  • Add slide

    Add a new slide to a Google Slides presentation.

  • Add table

    Create a table on a slide with specified rows and columns.

  • Add text

    Add a text box with text to a slide.

  • Create

    Create a new Google Slides presentation.

See all 28 Google Slides tools

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 Google Slides 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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