Recipes for building on Glean
Runnable patterns that go from problem to a working demo to scaffolded starter code — with the architecture, auth, and permissions laid out for each.
Build an engineering portal
The end-to-end showcase — index a developer catalog into Glean, then embed permission-aware search and chat back into the portal your team already uses.
Open the build guideDiscover a published Glean agent's A2A card and run it from any A2A client — multi-turn, streamed, permission-aware.
The hello-world of Glean apps: one page, one input, one permission-aware cited answer — built two ways, with the Web SDK and with the Chat API.
Point Claude Code, Cursor, and Claude Desktop at your Glean MCP endpoint and run one enterprise task from each — same context, three surfaces.
Put permission-aware Glean search and chat directly inside an internal app with the Web SDK, so your team gets answers where they already work.
Bring an unsupported source into Glean with the Indexing API — documents, permissions, and people — and see it live in search. This recipe seeds the Acme corpus every other recipe searches.
Build a Glean agent that plans, retrieves, and acts through a governed custom tool — with a safe fallback when the tool is denied.
Prompt Lovable into an IT helpdesk deflection page on the Glean Chat API — zero hand-written backend, permissions enforced by Glean.
Prompt Replit Agent into a working HR lookup tool on the Glean Chat API — zero hand-written backend, permissions enforced by Glean.
Use Glean's Platform API as the retrieval layer for your own LLM app — every chunk ACL-filtered per user before it ever reaches the model.