Connect Sanity to GitHub Copilot CLI
Give GitHub Copilot CLI governed access to Sanity’s 55 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Sanity 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.
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Add Sanity to Runlayer
Sanity isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect GitHub Copilot CLI to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to GitHub Copilot CLI by following Runlayer’s setup guide. GitHub Copilot CLI reaches Sanity’s 55 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
GitHub Copilot CLI setup guide - 3
Sign in to Sanity
Sign in the way Sanity requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Sanity from GitHub Copilot CLI
Sanity’s approved tools appear in GitHub Copilot CLI. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
55 Sanity tools in GitHub Copilot CLI
Runlayer policy decides which of these GitHub Copilot CLI users can call.
Get UI context
Returns UI enrichment data for widgets.
Add cors origin
Adds CORS origin(s) to allow client-side requests to a Sanity project
Assets upload status
Retrieve the status and result of your asset upload by operationId.
Delete cors origins
Deletes a CORS origin from a Sanity project
List cors origins
Lists all CORS origins configured for a Sanity project
Create dataset
Creates a new dataset with specified name and access settings
Create documents
Create one or more draft documents by directly providing structured content.
Create project
Creates a new Sanity project and initializes it with a dataset and API tokens
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 Sanity 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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