Connect GitHub to Claude
Give Claude governed access to GitHub’s 100 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add GitHub 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 GitHub in Runlayer
Add GitHub from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
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, GitHub’s 100 tools show up in Claude’s own tool list.
Claude setup guide - 3
Sign in to GitHub
Each user signs in to GitHub with OAuth. Runlayer keeps the tokens out of the client’s configuration.
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Use GitHub from Claude
GitHub’s approved tools appear in Claude. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
100 GitHub tools in Claude
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude users can call.
Get actions
Get details about specific GitHub Actions resources.
List actions
Tools for listing GitHub Actions resources.
Actions run trigger
Trigger GitHub Actions workflow operations, including running, re-running, cancelling workflow runs, and deleting workflow run logs.
Add comment to pending review
Add review comment to the requester's latest pending pull request review.
Add issue comment
Add a comment and/or reaction to a specific issue or issue comment in a GitHub repository.
Add reply to pull request comment
Add a reply and/or reaction to an existing pull request comment.
Assign copilot to issue
Assign Copilot to a specific issue in a GitHub repository.
Assign copilot to issue with intent
Assign Copilot to a specific issue in a GitHub repository.
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 GitHub 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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