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Connect Paper to Cline CLI

Give Cline CLI governed access to Paper’s 19 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Paper 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 Paper in Runlayer

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

  2. 2

    Connect Cline CLI to Runlayer

    Install the Runlayer CLI so Cline CLI can reach Paper, which runs on the user’s machine.

    Cline CLI setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Paper

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

  4. 4

    Use Paper from Cline CLI

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

Tools

19 Paper tools in Cline CLI

Runlayer policy decides which of these Cline CLI users can call.

  • Get basic info

    Get essential context about the current design: file name, page name, node count, list of artboards with their dimensions, and a list of font families used in the document.

  • Get selection

    Get detailed information about the currently selected nodes, including IDs, names, component types, size, and which artboard they belong to.

  • Get node info

    Get detailed information about a specific node by ID, including its size, visibility, lock state, parent, children IDs, and text content.

  • Get children

    Get the direct children of a node.

  • Get screenshot

    Capture a screenshot of a specific node by ID.

  • Get jsx

    Get the JSX code representation of a node and its descendants.

  • Get tree summary

    Get a compact text summary of a node's subtree hierarchy showing component type, name, ID, and dimensions.

  • Get computed styles

    Get the computed CSS styles for one or more nodes.

See all 19 Paper 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 Paper 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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