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Connect Fathom to VS Code

Give VS Code governed access to Fathom’s 12 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Fathom 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

    Add Fathom to Runlayer

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

    Adding a connector manually
  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, Fathom’s 12 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 Fathom

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

  4. 4

    Use Fathom from VS Code

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

Tools

12 Fathom tools in VS Code

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

  • Find person

    Find a person by name across meeting speakers, then return contact info and compact summaries for matched meetings.

  • Find relevant meetings

    Targeted ranked retrieval for specific facts, decisions, quotes, named projects, companies, products, people-plus-topic questions, or locating the best matching meetings.

  • Get identity

    Returns the authenticated user's name and email address.

  • Get meeting summary

    Returns the AI summary of a specific Fathom meeting.

  • Get meeting transcript

    Returns the full transcript of a specific Fathom meeting.

  • Get recording by call ID

    Resolve a Fathom call ID to a recording_id plus title, date, and url.

  • Get recording by URL

    Resolve a Fathom URL to a recording_id plus title, date, and url.

  • Get relevant meetings result

    Returns the find_relevant_meetings result for a search_id.

See all 12 Fathom 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 Fathom 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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