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Connect Microsoft 365 Copilot Search to Claude Cowork

Give Claude Cowork governed access to Microsoft 365 Copilot Search’s 1 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Microsoft 365 Copilot Search 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 Microsoft 365 Copilot Search in Runlayer

    Add Microsoft 365 Copilot Search 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, Microsoft 365 Copilot Search’s 1 tool show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.

    Claude Cowork setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Microsoft 365 Copilot Search

    Each user signs in to Microsoft 365 Copilot Search with OAuth. Runlayer keeps the tokens out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Microsoft 365 Copilot Search from Claude Cowork

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Search’s approved tools appear in Claude Cowork. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

1 Microsoft 365 Copilot Search tools in Claude Cowork

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

  • Chat

    Search internal Microsoft 365 content (documents, emails, chats, sites, files) when the specific workload is unclear or spans multiple areas, but always prefer workload-specific tools (SharePoint,…

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 Microsoft 365 Copilot Search 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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