Connect Omni to Glean
Give Glean governed access to Omni’s 25 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Omni to Glean in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Glean then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Add Omni to Runlayer
Omni isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Glean to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Glean by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Glean reaches Omni’s 25 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Glean setup guide - 3
Sign in to Omni
Sign in the way Omni requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Omni from Glean
Omni’s approved tools appear in Glean. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
25 Omni tools in Glean
Runlayer policy decides which of these Glean users can call.
Ask Omni
Starts the full Omni AI agent on an open-ended or multi-step analytical question and returns immediately with a 'jobId' — it does NOT wait for or return the answer, which is retrieved separately once…
Cancel job
Stops a job started by askOmni.
Check dashboard download
Polls a dashboard download started by startDashboardDownload.
Check status
Checks on a job started by askOmni and returns quickly.
Fetch dashboard download
Returns the png a completed dashboard download produced — the job from startDashboardDownload once checkDashboardDownload reports it "complete" — as an image you can look at, after a text block with…
Get app
Alpha — the app content shape may change without a deprecation cycle.
Get app draft
Alpha — the app content shape may change without a deprecation cycle.
Get data
Gets data by generating and executing a query from natural language.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Glean
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Glean exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Omni call from Glean passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Glean as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
OTLP telemetry (available)
Glean can send supported OpenTelemetry events to Runlayer for observe-only session visibility.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Glean yet, so control happens at the gateway.
In Glean
- Runlayer sees Glean activity through OpenTelemetry traces for monitoring only; enforcement happens at the gateway.
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