Connect Chrome DevTools to GitHub Copilot CLI
Give GitHub Copilot CLI governed access to Chrome DevTools’s 26 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Chrome DevTools to GitHub Copilot CLI in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in GitHub Copilot CLI then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Approve Chrome DevTools in Runlayer
Add Chrome DevTools from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
Connect GitHub Copilot CLI to Runlayer
Install the Runlayer CLI so GitHub Copilot CLI can reach Chrome DevTools, which runs on the user’s machine.
GitHub Copilot CLI setup guide - 3
Sign in to Chrome DevTools
Sign in the way Chrome DevTools requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Chrome DevTools from GitHub Copilot CLI
Chrome DevTools’s approved tools appear in GitHub Copilot CLI. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
26 Chrome DevTools tools in GitHub Copilot CLI
Runlayer policy decides which of these GitHub Copilot CLI users can call. 10 read data only.
Click
Clicks on the provided element
Close page
Closes the page by its index.
Drag
Drag an element onto another element
Emulate
Emulates various features on the selected page.
Evaluate script
Evaluate a JavaScript function inside the currently selected page.
Fill
Type text into a input, text area or select an option from a element.
Fill form
Fill out multiple form elements at once
Get console message
Gets a console message by its ID.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in GitHub Copilot CLI
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what GitHub Copilot CLI exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Chrome DevTools call from GitHub Copilot CLI passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, GitHub Copilot 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 or permission request before GitHub Copilot CLI runs it.
Block output after it runs (available)
Runlayer can block a tool’s output before GitHub Copilot CLI’s model sees it.
Redact output in place (available)
Runlayer can mask sensitive parts of a successful tool’s output in GitHub Copilot CLI and pass the rest through.
In GitHub Copilot CLI
- When a tool fails, Runlayer records the error but cannot replace it.
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