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Connect Profound to Cline CLI

Give Cline CLI governed access to Profound’s 61 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Profound 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

    Add Profound to Runlayer

    Profound isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.

    Adding a connector manually
  2. 2

    Connect Cline CLI to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Cline CLI by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Cline CLI reaches Profound’s 61 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Cline CLI setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Profound

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

  4. 4

    Use Profound from Cline CLI

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

Tools

61 Profound tools in Cline CLI

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

  • Add knowledge base document

    Add ONE new document (inline markdown text) to a knowledge base.

  • Archive project

    Preview or archive (retire) a project — set it aside without deleting it.

  • Create agent definition

    Create a draft agent definition — preview first, then apply on confirmation.

  • Create doc

    Create a new document in the Profound platform from content you have written.

  • Create project task

    Preview or add a task ("play") to a project.

  • Create prompts

    Create one or more prompts in a category.

  • Get agent

    Get details of an agent, including its input_schema.

  • Get agent definition

    Read back an agent's full workflow graph so you can copy and edit it.

See all 61 Profound 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 Profound 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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