Connect Zip to Hermes
Give Hermes governed access to Zip’s 65 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Zip to Hermes in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Hermes then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Add Zip to Runlayer
Zip isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Hermes to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Hermes by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Hermes reaches Zip’s 65 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Hermes setup guide - 3
Sign in to Zip
Sign in the way Zip requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Zip from Hermes
Zip’s approved tools appear in Hermes. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
65 Zip tools in Hermes
Runlayer policy decides which of these Hermes users can call.
Get agreement
Fetch a single agreement (contract) by GUID.
Get attachment
Get a single attachment (document) by GUID.
Get attachment download URL
Get a single-use download URL for the primary (latest) version of an attachment.
Get cash back
Get a single virtual card cash back by GUID.
Get category
Fetch a single taxonomy node (category) by GUID.
Get change order
Get a single change order (purchase requisition of type CHANGE_ORDER) by GUID.
Get context library
Fetch a single context library entry by GUID, including its latest published version (purpose, instructions, version number).
Get credit memo
Get a single credit memo by GUID.
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 Zip 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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