Connect Chronosphere to Windsurf
Give Windsurf governed access to Chronosphere’s 31 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Chronosphere to Windsurf in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Windsurf then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Add Chronosphere to Runlayer
Chronosphere isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Windsurf to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Windsurf by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Windsurf reaches Chronosphere’s 31 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Windsurf setup guide - 3
Sign in to Chronosphere
Sign in the way Chronosphere requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Chronosphere from Windsurf
Chronosphere’s approved tools appear in Windsurf. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
31 Chronosphere tools in Windsurf
Runlayer policy decides which of these Windsurf users can call.
Get dashboard
Get dashboards resource
Get drop rule
Get drop-rules resource
Get events metadata
List properties you can query on events
Get log
Get a full log message by its ID.
Get log histogram
Get histogram of logs from a given query
Get mapping rule
Get mapping-rules resource
Get monitor
Get monitors resource
Get notification policy
Get notification-policies resource
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Windsurf
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Windsurf exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Chronosphere call from Windsurf passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Windsurf 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 Windsurf runs it.
Block output after it runs (not available)
Windsurf ignores Runlayer after a tool runs, so Runlayer cannot block its output. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
Redact output in place (not available)
Windsurf has no way to receive replacement output, so Runlayer cannot mask it. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
In Windsurf
- Enforcement needs Windsurf 1.12.31 or newer.
- When Runlayer denies a call, Windsurf shows the reason to the user; Runlayer cannot adjust the call’s inputs.
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