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Connect Amplitude to VS Code

Give VS Code governed access to Amplitude’s 49 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Amplitude to VS Code in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve Amplitude in Runlayer

    Add Amplitude from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 2

    Connect VS Code to Runlayer

    Runlayer’s CLI installs the Runlayer Plugin natively in VS Code; users can also add it over MCP. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Amplitude’s 49 tools show up in VS Code’s own tool list (VS Code 1.103 or newer).

    VS Code setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Amplitude

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

  4. 4

    Use Amplitude from VS Code

    Amplitude’s approved tools appear in VS Code. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

49 Amplitude tools in VS Code

Runlayer policy decides which of these VS Code users can call.

  • Create group types

    Create one or more group types in a project, OR add already-ingested group types with status "unexpected" to the tracking plan.

  • Create properties

    Create one or more properties in a project's tracking plan.

  • Delete event properties

    Delete one or more event properties in a project.

  • Delete user properties

    Delete one or more user properties in a project.

  • Get agent results

    Retrieve results from AI agents that have analyzed your dashboards or session replays.

  • Get amp session replay info

    Unified entry point for session replay data: find replays and inspect what happened in them.

  • Get amp taxonomy

    Read a project's tracking plan: the events it defines, the properties on them, what a branch changes relative to main, who changed what when, and a CSV download of the plan.

  • Get amp user data

    Look up Amplitude users.

See all 49 Amplitude tools

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in VS Code

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what VS Code exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Amplitude call from VS Code passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, VS Code 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 VS Code runs it.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Runlayer can block a tool’s output before VS Code’s model sees it.

  • Redact output in place (available)

    Runlayer can mask sensitive parts of a tool’s output in VS Code and pass the rest through.

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