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Connect Workday to Claude

Give Claude governed access to Workday’s 60 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

Set up

Add Workday to Claude in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve Workday in Runlayer

    Add Workday 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, Workday’s 60 tools show up in Claude’s own tool list.

    Claude setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Workday

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

  4. 4

    Use Workday from Claude

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

Tools

60 Workday tools in Claude

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude users can call. 40 read data only and 20 can change or delete data.

  • Request time off

    Submit a time off request for a worker.

  • Get time off details

    Get paginated time off entries for a worker with optional filters.

  • Get time off entry

    Get a specific time off entry by ID.

  • Get time off balances

    Get paginated absence balances for a worker.

  • Get eligible absence types

    Get paginated absence types a worker is eligible to request.

  • Validate time off dates

    Validate one or more requested time off dates for a worker.

  • Correct time off entry

    Submit corrections for entries from one approved time off request.

  • Get leaves of absence

    Get paginated leaves of absence for a worker.

See all 60 Workday 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 Workday 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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