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Connect Lattice to Cline CLI

Give Cline CLI governed access to Lattice’s 22 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Lattice to Cline CLI in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve Lattice in Runlayer

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

  2. 2

    Connect Cline CLI to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Cline CLI by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Cline CLI reaches Lattice’s 22 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Cline CLI setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Lattice

    Each user signs in to Lattice with OAuth. Runlayer keeps the tokens out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Lattice from Cline CLI

    Lattice’s approved tools appear in Cline CLI. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

22 Lattice tools in Cline CLI

Runlayer policy decides which of these Cline CLI users can call. 15 read data only.

  • Find ancestors

    Find ancestors.

  • Find employees

    Searches for employees in the user's company by name, work email, and/or department.

  • Find feedback

    Retrieves feedback items the user has visibility into.

  • Find one on ones

    Find one on ones.

  • Find reports

    Find reports.

  • Find reviews

    Retrieves reviews the user is permitted to see, filterable by who the review is about, who wrote it, the cycle, direction, submission/sharing status, and date range.

  • Get current update draft

    Returns the user's current-period update draft, with the questions on the form, any answers already saved, the period bounds, and the cadence.

  • Get draft reviews

    Retrieves the open performance review drafts the user is currently authoring.

See all 22 Lattice tools

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Cline CLI

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Cline CLI exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Lattice call from Cline CLI passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Cline CLI as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Client hooks (available)

    Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.

  • Stop a call before it runs (available)

    Runlayer can deny a tool call before Cline CLI runs it.

  • Block output after it runs (not available)

    Cline CLI ignores Runlayer after a tool runs, so Runlayer cannot block its output. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

  • Redact output in place (not available)

    Runlayer cannot mask tool output in Cline CLI. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

In Cline CLI

  • If Runlayer’s hook times out or crashes, Cline CLI lets the tool call through.
  • This covers the Cline CLI, not the Cline extension for VS Code.

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