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Connect Lattice to VS Code

Give VS Code governed access to Lattice’s 22 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Lattice 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 Lattice in Runlayer

    Add Lattice 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, Lattice’s 22 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 Lattice

    Each user signs in to Lattice with OAuth. Runlayer keeps the tokens out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Lattice from VS Code

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

Tools

22 Lattice tools in VS Code

Runlayer policy decides which of these VS Code users can call. 15 read data only.

  • Find ancestors

    Find ancestors.

  • Find employees

    Searches for employees in the user's company by name, work email, and/or department.

  • Find feedback

    Retrieves feedback items the user has visibility into.

  • Find one on ones

    Find one on ones.

  • Find reports

    Find reports.

  • Find reviews

    Retrieves reviews the user is permitted to see, filterable by who the review is about, who wrote it, the cycle, direction, submission/sharing status, and date range.

  • Get current update draft

    Returns the user's current-period update draft, with the questions on the form, any answers already saved, the period bounds, and the cadence.

  • Get draft reviews

    Retrieves the open performance review drafts the user is currently authoring.

See all 22 Lattice 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 Lattice 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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