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Connect Sentry to VS Code

Give VS Code governed access to Sentry’s 16 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Sentry 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 Sentry in Runlayer

    Add Sentry 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, Sentry’s 16 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 Sentry

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

  4. 4

    Use Sentry from VS Code

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

Tools

16 Sentry tools in VS Code

Runlayer policy decides which of these VS Code users can call. 4 read data only.

  • Analyze issue with seer

    Use Seer to analyze production errors and get detailed root cause analysis with specific code fixes.

  • Execute Sentry tool

    Execute an available Sentry MCP tool discovered through search_sentry_tools.

  • Find dropped events

    Find events dropped before they were stored in Sentry — ground-truth data-fidelity information about what was and wasn't captured.

  • Find organizations

    Find organizations that the user has access to in Sentry.

  • Find projects

    Find projects in Sentry.

  • Get Sentry resource

    Fetch a Sentry resource by URL, or by resourceType plus resourceId.

  • Search errors

    Search Sentry error events: exceptions and crashes with stack traces.

  • Search events

    Search Sentry events and replays.

See all 16 Sentry 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 Sentry 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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