Connect Workato to Perplexity
Give Perplexity governed access to Workato’s 108 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Workato to Perplexity in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Perplexity then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Add Workato to Runlayer
Workato isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Perplexity to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Perplexity by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Perplexity reaches Workato’s 108 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Perplexity setup guide - 3
Sign in to Workato
Sign in the way Workato requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Workato from Perplexity
Workato’s approved tools appear in Perplexity. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
108 Workato tools in Perplexity
Runlayer policy decides which of these Perplexity users can call.
Get asset URL
Generate Workato UI URLs for one or more assets (recipe, genie, knowledge_base, skill, blueprint, job, folder, connection, mcp_server, project, data_table, api_endpoint, and ~30 more types).
Blueprint apply
Edit the blueprint working copy held by this chat session: 1 to 100 ops, each {op: 'set', path, value} or {op: 'delete', path}, applied atomically in the order given.
Blueprint identify
Report which blueprint this chat session's working copy holds, by handle, without reading Workato or changing anything.
Blueprint init
Start a new blueprint in this chat session: creates an empty local working copy and nothing on Workato.
Blueprint link asset
Bind a built asset (recipe, skill, genie, or MCP server) to a blueprint's asset map placeholder.
Blueprint pull
Load an existing blueprint from Workato into this chat session's working copy, replacing whatever the session held.
Blueprint push
Save this chat session's blueprint working copy to Workato - the only blueprint tool that writes to the platform.
Read blueprint
Read the blueprint working copy held by this chat session.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Perplexity
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Perplexity exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Workato call from Perplexity passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Perplexity as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Managed browser extension (available)
Managed Chrome, Edge, and Firefox deployments can monitor supported web-chat activity and apply prompt-time controls where the surface permits it.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Perplexity yet, so control happens at the gateway.
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