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Connect Microsoft SharePoint to Claude Cowork

Give Claude Cowork governed access to Microsoft SharePoint’s 40 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

Set up

Add Microsoft SharePoint 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 SharePoint in Runlayer

    Add Microsoft SharePoint 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 SharePoint’s 40 tools show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.

    Claude Cowork setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Microsoft SharePoint

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

  4. 4

    Use Microsoft SharePoint from Claude Cowork

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

Tools

40 Microsoft SharePoint tools in Claude Cowork

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Cowork users can call. 9 read data only and 1 can change or delete data.

  • Create list item

    Create a new item in a SharePoint list.

  • Delete list item

    Delete an item from a SharePoint list.

  • Get list item

    Fetch a single item from a SharePoint list by its id.

  • Get site

    Fetch a single SharePoint site's metadata.

  • List drives

    List the document libraries (drives) in a SharePoint site.

  • List folder items

    List files and folders inside a SharePoint document library folder.

  • List list items

    List items in a SharePoint list.

  • List lists

    List SharePoint lists in a site.

See all 40 Microsoft SharePoint 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 Microsoft SharePoint 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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