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Connect Plaid to Glean

Give Glean governed access to Plaid’s 5 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Plaid to Glean in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Glean then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Add Plaid to Runlayer

    Plaid isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.

    Adding a connector manually
  2. 2

    Connect Glean to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Glean by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Glean reaches Plaid’s 5 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Glean setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Plaid

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

  4. 4

    Use Plaid from Glean

    Plaid’s approved tools appear in Glean. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

5 Plaid tools in Glean

Runlayer policy decides which of these Glean users can call.

  • Debug item

    Diagnose a Plaid item by retrieving its state information.

  • Get link analytics

    Retrieves Plaid Link analytics data for analyzing user conversion and error rates.

  • Get tools introduction

    Returns a list of all available tools with a brief introduction for each.

  • Get usages

    Retrieves usage metrics for Plaid products and services.

  • List teams

    Retrieve teams associated with the user and present them as a selectable list.

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 Plaid 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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