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Connect Microsoft Teams to Cline CLI

Give Cline CLI governed access to Microsoft Teams’s 60 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Microsoft Teams 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 Microsoft Teams in Runlayer

    Add Microsoft Teams 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 Microsoft Teams’s 60 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Cline CLI setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Microsoft Teams

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

  4. 4

    Use Microsoft Teams from Cline CLI

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

Tools

60 Microsoft Teams tools in Cline CLI

Runlayer policy decides which of these Cline CLI users can call. 12 read data only and 1 can change or delete data.

  • Add channel member

    Add a member to a channel.

  • Add chat member

    Add a member to a group chat.

  • Create channel

    Create a channel in a team.

  • Create chat

    Create a new Teams chat (1:1 or group) and return it.

  • Delete chat message

    Soft-delete a chat message (recoverable).

  • Get channel

    Get a single channel by id.

  • Get chat

    Get a single Teams chat by id.

  • Get chat message

    Get a single message from a Teams chat.

See all 60 Microsoft Teams 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 Microsoft Teams 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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