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Connect Glean to Claude

Give Claude governed access to Glean’s 16 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Glean to Claude in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Glean in Runlayer

    Add Glean from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 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, Glean’s 16 tools show up in Claude’s own tool list.

    Claude setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Glean

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

  4. 4

    Use Glean from Claude

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

Tools

16 Glean tools in Claude

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude users can call.

  • Brave actions web search

    Searches the web for up-to-date external information from the web.

  • Chat

    AI-powered tool for company knowledge.

  • Code search

    Searches company code and configuration (top matches only).

  • Create image

    Generate a new image from a natural-language prompt using Glean's image generation models, save it as an IMAGE artifact in the user's Library, and return links to view or download it.

  • Edit image

    Modify an existing IMAGE artifact using a natural-language instruction.

  • Employee search

    Finds company employees and their information.

  • Gmail search

    Searches Gmail inbox (Google Workspace) for emails, conversations, and attachments.

  • Meeting lookup

    Searches company calendar meetings and extracts transcripts.

See all 16 Glean tools

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 Glean 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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