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Connect Ordinal to Claude Cowork

Give Claude Cowork governed access to Ordinal’s 50 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Ordinal 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 Ordinal in Runlayer

    Add Ordinal 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, Ordinal’s 50 tools show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.

    Claude Cowork setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Ordinal

    An admin adds Ordinal credentials to Runlayer once. They never sit in the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Ordinal from Claude Cowork

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

Tools

50 Ordinal tools in Claude Cowork

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

  • Get analytics cpm

    Get CPM Values - Retrieve the current CPM (Cost Per Mille) values used for EMV calculations across all platforms.

  • Update analytics cpm

    Update CPM Values - Update the CPM values used for EMV calculations.

  • Analytics linkedin followers

    Retrieve follower count history for a LinkedIn profile.

  • Analytics linkedin posts

    Retrieve post analytics for a LinkedIn profile within a date range.

  • Analytics x followers

    Retrieve follower count history for an X profile.

  • Analytics x posts

    Retrieve post analytics for an X profile within a date range.

  • Create approvals

    Create one or more approval requests for a post.

  • Delete approvals

    Delete an approval request.

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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 Ordinal 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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