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Connect Workday to Claude Cowork

Give Claude Cowork governed access to Workday’s 60 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Workday 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 Workday in Runlayer

    Add Workday 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, Workday’s 60 tools show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.

    Claude Cowork setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Workday

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

  4. 4

    Use Workday from Claude Cowork

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

Tools

60 Workday tools in Claude Cowork

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Cowork users can call. 40 read data only and 20 can change or delete data.

  • Request time off

    Submit a time off request for a worker.

  • Get time off details

    Get paginated time off entries for a worker with optional filters.

  • Get time off entry

    Get a specific time off entry by ID.

  • Get time off balances

    Get paginated absence balances for a worker.

  • Get eligible absence types

    Get paginated absence types a worker is eligible to request.

  • Validate time off dates

    Validate one or more requested time off dates for a worker.

  • Correct time off entry

    Submit corrections for entries from one approved time off request.

  • Get leaves of absence

    Get paginated leaves of absence for a worker.

See all 60 Workday 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 Workday 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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