Claude Glean connectorWhat Claude can do in your Glean account.
The Claude Glean connector exposes 8 tools. 8 read, 0 write, 0 left undocumented. Claude searches everything your company has connected to Glean, always within your own permissions. Here: what it can find, what depends on your Glean admin, and who can cut the link.
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What changes for everyday work questions
Glean already indexes the tools your company uses. The connector puts that index inside Claude: instead of switching to Glean to find the right wiki page, the right engineer or last week's meeting notes, you ask Claude, it searches with your access rights, reads what matters and answers in context.
Onboarding without the scavenger hunt. A new hire asks how expenses are approved. search looks across the company's connected sources, then read_document opens the policy itself, so Claude can answer from the actual text.
Find who knows. Before a customer escalation, ask who has worked on the billing service. employee_search finds people by expertise, and code_search points to the repositories involved.
Prepare a meeting in two minutes. An account manager asks what was said with a client last month. meeting_lookup finds recordings and notes, while gmail_search or outlook_search surface the related email threads.
What it will not do here: by default the sheet only exposes reading, so Claude does not edit a document, send a message or update a ticket through these tools. Glean notes that admins can add write tools to a server, which is why a read-only list is a floor, not a promise. And nothing runs on its own: Claude does not watch a wiki and alert you when a page changes. For that kind of background routine, an automation tool is the fitting option, a different job listed on our Integrations page. Project work can sit next to it with the Claude asana connector.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will see while plugging Glean in.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already use, so Claude can work with it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude picks the tools it needs on its own; the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The service's own sign-in screen, where you grant Claude the access it will use. Given once per person, and you can revoke it.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before doing something that changes an account, shown in the chat at the moment it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Glean.
Plug Glean into Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Glean in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and find Glean in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before members can each sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to your company's Glean in the window that Glean opens itself. If the link breaks later, use Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Read Glean's authorization screen before you accept. It belongs to Glean, not to Claude, and it decides what the access covers. The access can also be withdrawn later from the Glean side.
The 8 tools, sorted by what they do
Glean gives Claude 8 tools: 8 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
All eight read, each from a different corner of your company's knowledge. Names stay in English, as Claude shows them.
- 8 read
What Claude reads (8)
8 toolsEight read-only tools. Every result respects your own Glean permissions.
search
Runs a search across your whole knowledge base and returns only results you are allowed to see, the starting point for most questions.
code_search
Looks through your codebase and repositories, so Claude can point to where a function, a config or an error message actually lives.
employee_search
Finds colleagues and their areas of expertise across the organisation, so Claude can tell you who to ask rather than only what to read, and bring that name into its answer.
chat
Opens an exchange with Glean's own AI assistant from inside Claude, which Glean describes as interactive conversations with its assistant.
gmail_search
Searches Gmail messages and threads through Glean. That way an email exchange can feed Claude's answer right next to the documents and meeting notes it already found.
outlook_search
Looks through Outlook email and calendar via Glean, which covers companies running on Microsoft rather than Google.
meeting_lookup
Finds meeting recordings and notes that Glean has indexed, so Claude can recap what was decided without you replaying anything.
read_document
Retrieves one specific document by its ID or URL, so Claude reads the full content instead of the snippet a search returns.
What Claude asks before acting
By default, Claude stops and asks for your confirmation before every action it takes on an account on your behalf. With the eight Glean tools listed, everything is a read, so no write reaches that rule.
On Team and Enterprise, workspace owners decide whether members may let some actions through without a prompt, and they can restrict what a connector does for the whole organisation, keeping reads and closing writes for instance. Nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude also works with your rights only: Glean says its tools surface company content while enforcing user permissions, so the ceiling is your own access.
Which plans include it
Of the 819 sheets in the official directory, none displays availability by plan. The connector-by-connector answer is published nowhere: a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner turns the connector on for the organisation before members can connect. You also need an active Glean account at your company. The connector's sheet in the official directory shows its current state.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts by itself when a page is edited or a meeting is recorded.
By default the sheet only exposes reading, and that is an observed floor, not a guarantee: Glean admins can add write tools, and any admin can open actions no public sheet lists. The directory's partner badge is not a security audit either, and Anthropic says on every sheet that it does not choose a publisher's tools. Everything here comes from Glean's documentation; neither Claude's help centre nor Anthropic's developer docs cover this connector.
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