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Connect CrowdStrike Falcon to VS Code

Give VS Code governed access to CrowdStrike Falcon’s 169 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add CrowdStrike Falcon 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 CrowdStrike Falcon in Runlayer

    Add CrowdStrike Falcon 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, CrowdStrike Falcon’s 169 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 CrowdStrike Falcon

    An admin adds CrowdStrike Falcon credentials to Runlayer once. They never sit in the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use CrowdStrike Falcon from VS Code

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

Tools

169 CrowdStrike Falcon tools in VS Code

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

  • Add case alert evidence

    Attach alert evidence to an existing case.

  • Add case event evidence

    Attach LogScale event evidence to an existing case.

  • Add IOC

    Create one or more custom IOCs.

  • Aggregate case access tags

    Count case access tags grouped by a field.

  • Aggregate case file details

    Report the files attached to cases, grouped and counted by a field.

  • Aggregate case notification groups

    Count case notification groups grouped by a field.

  • Aggregate case slas

    Count case SLA definitions grouped by a field.

  • Aggregate case templates

    Count case templates grouped by a field.

See all 169 CrowdStrike Falcon 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 CrowdStrike Falcon 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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