Connect Vantage to Claude
Give Claude governed access to Vantage’s 157 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Vantage to Claude in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Add Vantage to Runlayer
Vantage isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 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, Vantage’s 157 tools show up in Claude’s own tool list.
Claude setup guide - 3
Sign in to Vantage
Sign in the way Vantage requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Vantage from Claude
Vantage’s approved tools appear in Claude. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
157 Vantage tools in Claude
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude users can call.
Add team member
Add a user to a Team by email address and assign their Team role.
Create access policy
Create an Access Policy, which limits the costs visible to the Teams it is assigned to.
Create annotation
Create an Annotation on one or more Cost Reports for a specific date.
Create billing rule
Exclusion rules require charge_type.
Create budget
Creates a budget based on the parameters specified.
Create budget alert
Create a Budget Alert that notifies users or connected channels when one or more Budgets reach a percentage threshold during a monthly time window.
Create canvas
Creates a Canvas based on the parameters specified.
Create cost alert
Create a new Cost Alert in Vantage.
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 Vantage 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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