Claude Egnyte connectorWhat Claude can do in your Egnyte account.
The Claude Egnyte connector exposes 23 tools. 16 read your Egnyte content (search, documents, knowledge bases, comments, links), 0 change anything by default, 7 are undocumented. Here: what Claude finds, what an admin must enable, and where the sources disagree.
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What changes when Claude can reach your Egnyte files
Your contracts, reports and policies already live in Egnyte. With the connector, Claude can search them, read them and put questions to Egnyte AI while it answers you, instead of you digging through folders and pasting extracts. Anthropic's own tutorial for this connector frames it for data rooms: search, read, ask, then summarize with citations to the actual files.
Contract review in one conversation. advanced_search finds every PDF contract in a client folder for a given period, ask_document asks each one about its termination clause, and summarize_document gives you the key terms side by side.
Due diligence without the folder hunt. Claude runs search over the deal room, pulls the documents that matter with fetch, and builds a summary of financial highlights and risks drawn from the files themselves.
Policy questions answered from the source. An employee asks about the leave policy: ask_knowledge_base queries the HR knowledge base, or ask_copilot asks Egnyte's assistant within the handbook folder.
Now the part the sheet leaves out. Nothing on it uploads, moves or edits a file, even though Egnyte documents such tools elsewhere. Seven tools, three of them with workflow in their name, are described by no official source. An Egnyte admin must switch on external AI access first. Claude sees only what your Egnyte rights show you. And nothing runs on its own: no tool fires when a file lands. For that, you want an automation tool, a different job; the Egnyte Make integration covers that side, and the Integrations hub lists the rest.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will run into while plugging Egnyte in.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude picks the ones it needs on its own, and the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of Egnyte itself, where you hand Claude the access it will use. Granted once per person, and you can take it back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with something that changes your account, shown right in the chat.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Egnyte.
Plug Egnyte into Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Egnyte in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Egnyte in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to switch the connector on before each member can connect.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on the Egnyte row, then sign in to Egnyte in the window the service opens itself. If the link ever breaks, use Disconnect and plug it back in.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Read the authorization screen before you approve it. It belongs to Egnyte, not to Claude, and it decides what the access covers. You can also withdraw that access later from your Egnyte account.
The 23 tools of the Claude Egnyte connector
Egnyte gives Claude 23 tools: 16 that read your account, 0 that change something in it, and 7 no official source describes.
Two groups: what Claude reads in your Egnyte domain, and what no official source describes. The names stay the ones Claude shows, in English.
- 16 read
- 7 not documented
What Claude reads (16)
16 toolsSixteen tools that search, read, question or list your content without changing it.
search
Runs a hybrid search across the files and content of your Egnyte domain, so Claude can find a document from a plain question instead of a folder path.
advanced_search
Searches with filters on metadata, dates, folders and similarity, which narrows a large repository down to the exact set of files you mean.
fetch
Pulls the content of one document by its ID into the conversation, so Claude can read it, compare it with another file or quote a passage.
ask_document
Puts a question about one document to Egnyte AI and brings back the answer, which saves reading a whole contract to find one clause.
summarize_document
Asks Egnyte AI for a summary of a document, so Claude can hand you the main provisions of a long file in a few lines.
list_filesystem_by_path
Lists the files and folders sitting at a path you give, so Claude can see what a folder holds before it opens anything.
download_file_by_path
Downloads a file located by its path in Egnyte, giving Claude the file itself rather than a summary of it.
download_file_by_id
Retrieves the original file that matches an Egnyte ID, handy when a search already returned the ID and the path is long or unknown.
ask_copilot
Asks the Egnyte AI Assistant a question, optionally scoped to specific files or folders, and brings its answer back into Claude.
ask_knowledge_base
Queries one of the knowledge bases your organization built in Egnyte, a curated collection of reference content.
list_knowledge_bases
Lists the knowledge bases available in your Egnyte domain, with filtering, so Claude knows which collection to query.
list_projects
Lists the project folders of your domain, so Claude can point you to the right project before searching inside it.
get_comment
Retrieves one comment by its ID, so Claude can bring the exact remark left on a file into the discussion.
list_comments
Lists the comments left on a file or across the domain, which gives Claude the review history of a document.
get_link_details
Returns the details of one share link, so Claude can tell you what a link points to and how it was set.
list_links
Lists the share links of your domain, with filters, which helps Claude spot what has been shared outside and when.
Undocumented (7)
7 toolsThe directory publishes these seven names and nothing else. No official text says what they do, and this page will not guess from a name.
list_filesystem_by_id
This name is on the directory sheet, next to its by-path sibling, but no official source describes it: Egnyte's own tool list skips it, and so does the Claude tutorial.
get_folder_stats
Same silence here. The sheet shows the name, and none of the Egnyte or Claude pages read for this guide documents it, so the page will not guess from the wording.
search_projects_by_folder
Listed on the sheet, absent from every official text available today. Its effect on your domain is therefore unknown, whatever the name suggests, and the page leaves it there.
get_project_details
One more entry the directory names without a word of explanation. Egnyte describes a tool that lists project folders, but not this one: no official source documents it, so the page stops at the name.
get_workflow_details
The first of three names on the sheet that mention workflows. No official source says what any of them covers or returns, and this page does not fill the gap.
list_workflows
Second workflow name on the list, just as silent as the first: no official source documents it. Neither Egnyte's tool table nor the Claude tutorial mentions it anywhere, so nothing more is said here.
list_workflow_tasks
The last name on the sheet, and the last undocumented one: no official text describes it, so its effect on your content is unknown here.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before each action it carries out on an account for you. The request shows up in the conversation, at the moment it matters.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, the owners decide whether a member can let some actions through without being asked every time. They can also limit what a connector may do for the whole organization, for instance keep reading open and close writing. That setting applies to everyone, and nobody gets around it from their own account. Claude also works with your Egnyte rights and nothing more: a folder you cannot open in Egnyte stays closed to it, as both Anthropic's tutorial and Egnyte confirm.
Which plans include it
Out of the 819 sheets in the official directory, not one shows availability by plan. The connector by connector answer is published nowhere: that is a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is public: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, while desktop extensions install on Claude Desktop. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner turns the connector on for the organization before each member can connect. For the current status, check the Egnyte sheet in the official directory from your own account.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts when a file is uploaded, a folder changes or a workflow step is due.
The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise, since an admin can open actions that no public sheet shows. The directory's partner badge is not a security audit either, and Anthropic says so on every sheet: it does not choose the tools a publisher exposes and does not guarantee they behave as announced. Plug in what comes from a publisher you trust, here Egnyte itself. Anthropic's tutorial explains what the connector is for; the practical limits below come from Egnyte's own pages.
Can Claude write to Egnyte with this connector?
- Claude directory sheet for Egnyte ↗read on 30 September 202623 tools, none of which uploads, creates or modifies content.
- Egnyte connector sheet published by Egnyte on Microsoft Learn ↗updated in July 2026The same Egnyte server also offers tools to upload a file, create a folder, set metadata, create a share link and add a comment.
What this page followsNeither side is stale: both describe Egnyte's server, but for different clients. For Claude, the directory sheet of your own account is the one that counts, and today it shows reading only. That is a floor, not a ceiling, so check the sheet again before you plan on writing.
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