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Connect Collate to Hermes

Give Hermes governed access to Collate’s 19 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Collate to Hermes in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Add Collate to Runlayer

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

    Adding a connector manually
  2. 2

    Connect Hermes to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Hermes by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Hermes reaches Collate’s 19 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Hermes setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Collate

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

  4. 4

    Use Collate from Hermes

    Collate’s approved tools appear in Hermes. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

19 Collate tools in Hermes

Runlayer policy decides which of these Hermes users can call.

  • Create article

    Creates a Knowledge Center Article page in Collate.

  • Create classification

    Creates a new Classification in OpenMetadata.

  • Create data product

    Creates a new Data Product in OpenMetadata.

  • Create domain

    Creates a new Domain in OpenMetadata.

  • Create glossary

    Creates a new Glossary.

  • Create glossary term

    Creates a new Glossary Term.

  • Create lineage

    Can be used to create lineage between two assets.

  • Create metric

    Creates a new Metric entity in OpenMetadata.

See all 19 Collate tools

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 Collate 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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