Connect Exa Websets to Gemini CLI
Give Gemini CLI governed access to Exa Websets’s 23 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Exa Websets to Gemini CLI in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Gemini CLI then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Approve Exa Websets in Runlayer
Add Exa Websets from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
Connect Gemini CLI to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Gemini CLI by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Gemini CLI reaches Exa Websets’s 23 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Gemini CLI setup guide - 3
Sign in to Exa Websets
Sign in the way Exa Websets requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Exa Websets from Gemini CLI
Exa Websets’s approved tools appear in Gemini CLI. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
23 Exa Websets tools in Gemini CLI
Runlayer policy decides which of these Gemini CLI users can call.
Cancel enrichment
Cancel a running enrichment operation.
Cancel search
Cancel a running search operation.
Create enrichment
Create a new enrichment for a webset.
Create import
Create a new import to upload your own data (CSV) into Websets.
Create search
Create a new search to find and add items to a webset.
Create webhook
Create a webhook to receive real-time HTTP callbacks when events occur in your websets.
Create webset
Create a new Webset collection.
Delete webhook
Delete a webhook.
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 Exa Websets 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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