Connect Ahrefs to Claude
Give Claude governed access to Ahrefs’s 135 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Ahrefs to Claude in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Approve Ahrefs in Runlayer
Add Ahrefs from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
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Connect Claude to Runlayer
Admins install the Runlayer Plugin for everyone from Claude’s admin plugin settings, or users add it themselves. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Ahrefs’s 135 tools show up in Claude’s own tool list.
Claude setup guide - 3
Sign in to Ahrefs
Sign in the way Ahrefs requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Ahrefs from Claude
Ahrefs’s approved tools appear in Claude. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
135 Ahrefs tools in Claude
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude users can call. 93 read data only.
Batch analysis
Performs a batch analysis of multiple URLs, domains, or subdomains to retrieve selected SEO, backlink, organic, and paid traffic metrics.
Brand radar AI responses
Provides questions asked to AI assistants and the corresponding AI-generated responses that mention your brand or competitors’ brands, including cited sources and search volume estimates.
Brand radar AI responses entities
Provides questions asked to AI assistants and the corresponding AI-generated responses that mention your brand or competitors’ brands, including cited sources and search volume estimates.
Brand radar citations history entities
Provides the historical number of citations for your and competitors' brand URLs in an LLM you specify.
Brand radar citations overview entities
Provides the number of citations for your and competitors's brands in an LLM you specify, with filters for locations, query text, URL, and more.
Brand radar cited domains
Provides domains cited in AI-generated responses that mention your brand or competitors' brands in an LLM you specify, including how many responses referenced each domain (broken down by brand) and…
Brand radar cited domains entities
Provides domains cited in AI-generated responses that mention your brand or competitors' brands in an LLM you specify, including how many responses referenced each domain (broken down by brand) and…
Brand radar cited pages
Provides the pages cited in AI-generated responses that mention your brand or competitors' brands in an LLM you specify, including how many responses referenced each page (broken down by brand) and…
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Claude
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Claude exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Ahrefs call from Claude passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Claude as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Anthropic inference hooks (available)
With Claude Enterprise, Anthropic sends each governed Claude prompt to Runlayer before inference, with nothing installed on devices (Anthropic beta).
Compliance API import (available)
Anthropic Compliance API imports Claude web and desktop chats for review.
Managed browser extension (available)
Managed Chrome, Edge, and Firefox deployments can monitor supported web-chat activity and apply prompt-time controls where the surface permits it.
Stop a call before it runs (available)
Runlayer can reject a Claude 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)
Anthropic Inference hooks cannot return a rewritten prompt, so Runlayer cannot mask content in Claude. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
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