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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.

  1. 1

    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. 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. 3

    Sign in to Sanity

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

  4. 4

    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

See all 55 Sanity tools

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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