Embed search & chat in an internal app

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.

~15 minBeginner

Problem

Your team lives in an internal tool and context-switches to find answers. Instead of sending them elsewhere, bring Glean's answers into the app they already use — with permissions enforced per user, automatically.

Architecture

Internal appYour existing frontend

Glean Web SDKsearch + chat UI

AuthSSO or scoped token

Gleanpermission-aware index

Prerequisites

A Glean instance with content indexed

Your Glean web app domain (typically app.glean.com — see admin/about-glean)

A frontend app or page where you can install an npm package (or add a script tag) and a container element

Steps

Take it further

• Hand off context between search and chat so a search result opens a grounded conversation (separate pages for chat and search).
• Scope chat to a specific agent by passing its agentId to the chat component.
• Go tokenless for guests with the Web SDK's guest auth provider for public-facing deployments.
• Add the Modal Search or Sidebar variants for search anywhere in the app.

Try it

What's our PTO policy?

Returns a non-empty answer with at least one citation carrying a real title and URL, drawn from your own indexed content.

Who should I ask about billing?

Returns a non-empty answer with at least one citation carrying a real title and URL, drawn from your own indexed content.

Summarize our latest product update

Returns a non-empty answer with at least one citation carrying a real title and URL, drawn from your own indexed content.

Each of these was run against a live Glean instance on 2026-08-02.

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At a glance

SurfacesWeb SDK

StatusProduction pattern

Time~15 min (minimal)

Required scopes

SEARCHCHAT