Connect Spacelift to Zed
Give Zed governed access to Spacelift’s 7 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Spacelift to Zed in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Zed then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Add Spacelift to Runlayer
Spacelift isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Zed to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Zed by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Zed reaches Spacelift’s 7 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Zed setup guide - 3
Sign in to Spacelift
Sign in the way Spacelift requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Spacelift from Zed
Spacelift’s approved tools appear in Zed. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
7 Spacelift tools in Zed
Runlayer policy decides which of these Zed users can call.
Discover
Browse the Spacelift API schema.
Intent
Manage infrastructure resources through their lifecycle.
Mutate
Execute a Spacelift mutation.
Policy input schema
Return a policy type's input structure, expected rule outputs and description.
Policy simulate
Evaluate a draft policy body and return the decision.
Provider
Discover infrastructure providers and inspect their resource/data source schemas.
Query
Execute a read-only Spacelift query.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Zed
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Zed exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Spacelift call from Zed passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Zed as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Zed yet, so control happens at the gateway.
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