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Connect Snowflake to Cline CLI

Give Cline CLI governed access to Snowflake’s 8 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Snowflake 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 Snowflake in Runlayer

    Add Snowflake 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 Snowflake’s 8 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Cline CLI setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Snowflake

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

  4. 4

    Use Snowflake from Cline CLI

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

Tools

8 Snowflake tools in Cline CLI

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

  • Describe semantic view

    Describe a semantic view.

  • Get semantic view ddl

    Get the DDL for a semantic view.

  • List semantic views

    List all semantic views in the account, database, or schema.

  • Query semantic view

    Writes and runs a statement to query a semantic view using DIMENSIONS, METRICS, and/or FACTS.

  • Run Snowflake query

    Run a SQL query in Snowflake.

  • Show semantic dimensions

    Show all semantic dimensions in the account, database, or schema.

  • Show semantic metrics

    Show all semantic metrics in the account, database, or schema.

  • Write semantic view query tool

    Writes a query statement to query a semantic view using DIMENSIONS, METRICS, and/or FACTS.

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 Snowflake 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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