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Connect Airtable to Gemini CLI

Give Gemini CLI governed access to Airtable’s 46 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Airtable to Gemini CLI in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve Airtable in Runlayer

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

  2. 2

    Connect Gemini CLI to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Gemini CLI by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Gemini CLI reaches Airtable’s 46 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Gemini CLI setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Airtable

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

  4. 4

    Use Airtable from Gemini CLI

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

Tools

46 Airtable tools in Gemini CLI

Runlayer policy decides which of these Gemini CLI users can call. 6 read data only and 1 can change or delete data.

  • Analyze table

    Run statistical operations (count, sum, average, min, max, etc.) on an Airtable table, optionally grouped by columns and filtered.

  • Create automation

    Creates and validates one automation in a base: a trigger plus ordered nodes — action nodes, repeatingGroup (run inner nodes once per item), and conditionalGroup (if/else-if/else branches).

  • Create base

    Creates a new Airtable base with the specified tables and fields.

  • Create field

    Creates a new field in an existing Airtable table.

  • Create interface

    Creates a new interface within a base.

  • Create page

    Creates a new page.

  • Create record comment

    Creates a comment on a specific Airtable record.

  • Create records for table

    Creates new records in an Airtable table.

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Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Gemini CLI

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

  • Gateway policy (available)

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

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Gemini 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 Gemini CLI runs it.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Runlayer can block a tool’s output before Gemini CLI’s model sees it.

  • Redact output in place (not available)

    Gemini CLI can only add text to a tool result, not replace it, so Runlayer blocks output it would otherwise mask. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

In Gemini CLI

  • Enforcement needs Gemini CLI 0.26.0 or newer.
  • When Runlayer blocks a call or its output, Gemini CLI shows the model the block reason instead.

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