Connect Workato to Claude
Give Claude governed access to Workato’s 108 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Workato to Claude in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Add Workato to Runlayer
Workato 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, Workato’s 108 tools show up in Claude’s own tool list.
Claude setup guide - 3
Sign in to Workato
Sign in the way Workato requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Workato from Claude
Workato’s approved tools appear in Claude. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
108 Workato tools in Claude
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude users can call.
Get asset URL
Generate Workato UI URLs for one or more assets (recipe, genie, knowledge_base, skill, blueprint, job, folder, connection, mcp_server, project, data_table, api_endpoint, and ~30 more types).
Blueprint apply
Edit the blueprint working copy held by this chat session: 1 to 100 ops, each {op: 'set', path, value} or {op: 'delete', path}, applied atomically in the order given.
Blueprint identify
Report which blueprint this chat session's working copy holds, by handle, without reading Workato or changing anything.
Blueprint init
Start a new blueprint in this chat session: creates an empty local working copy and nothing on Workato.
Blueprint link asset
Bind a built asset (recipe, skill, genie, or MCP server) to a blueprint's asset map placeholder.
Blueprint pull
Load an existing blueprint from Workato into this chat session's working copy, replacing whatever the session held.
Blueprint push
Save this chat session's blueprint working copy to Workato - the only blueprint tool that writes to the platform.
Read blueprint
Read the blueprint working copy held by this chat session.
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 Workato 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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