Connect Exa Websets to Hermes
Give Hermes governed access to Exa Websets’s 23 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Exa Websets to Hermes in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Hermes then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Approve Exa Websets in Runlayer
Add Exa Websets from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
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Connect Hermes to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Hermes by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Hermes reaches Exa Websets’s 23 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Hermes setup guide - 3
Sign in to Exa Websets
Sign in the way Exa Websets requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Exa Websets from Hermes
Exa Websets’s approved tools appear in Hermes. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
23 Exa Websets tools in Hermes
Runlayer policy decides which of these Hermes users can call.
Cancel enrichment
Cancel a running enrichment operation.
Cancel search
Cancel a running search operation.
Create enrichment
Create a new enrichment for a webset.
Create import
Create a new import to upload your own data (CSV) into Websets.
Create search
Create a new search to find and add items to a webset.
Create webhook
Create a webhook to receive real-time HTTP callbacks when events occur in your websets.
Create webset
Create a new Webset collection.
Delete webhook
Delete a webhook.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Hermes
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Hermes exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Exa Websets call from Hermes passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Hermes 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 before Hermes runs it.
Block output after it runs (available)
Runlayer can block a tool’s output in Hermes and show a message in its place.
Redact output in place (not available)
Hermes cannot take masked output, so Runlayer can block a tool’s output but not mask it. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
In Hermes
- Hermes can replace blocked tool output with a message, but its after-call event is for monitoring only.
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