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Connect Gainsight to Windsurf

Give Windsurf governed access to Gainsight’s 20 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Gainsight to Windsurf in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Windsurf then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Add Gainsight to Runlayer

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

    Adding a connector manually
  2. 2

    Connect Windsurf to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Windsurf by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Windsurf reaches Gainsight’s 20 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Windsurf setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Gainsight

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

  4. 4

    Use Gainsight from Windsurf

    Gainsight’s approved tools appear in Windsurf. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

20 Gainsight tools in Windsurf

Runlayer policy decides which of these Windsurf users can call.

  • Ask scorecard

    Fetch comprehensive scorecard data for one or more companies and/or relationships.

  • Ask staircase

    ASK Staircase compiles insights from a customer's own communications — emails, meetings, calls, support tickets, escalations, and Slack conversations.

  • Create timeline activity

    Creates a new Gainsight Timeline activity.

  • List fetch cta

    Fetch CTAs (Calls to Action) from Gainsight's Cockpit.

  • Fetch customer contacts

    Fetch contact records (people on the customer side of a company or relationship).

  • Fetch report data

    Fetch rows from a Gainsight report — optionally with on-the-fly modifications — without ever loading the full report config into your context.

  • Fetch success plan list

    Fetch Success Plans from Gainsight.

  • Fetch timeline activity list

    Fetch Timeline Activities from Gainsight using the Query API with full field control.

See all 20 Gainsight tools

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 Gainsight 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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