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HR WORKS MCP connector

Connecting HR WORKS to Elaichi lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent look up absences, sick leave, remote work, applicants, working hours and cost centers within each person's own HR WORKS access, with every call logged.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect HR WORKS to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect HR WORKS once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick HR WORKS.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a HR WORKS API key. One person generates a token in HR WORKS and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

hr works
HR WORKS
360learning
7shifts
ADP Workforce Now
Altera Payroll
BambooHR
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

HR WORKS MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

HR WORKS MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

HR WORKS MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect HR WORKS to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with HR WORKS through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • HR

    Log an absence straight from the request

    When someone messages that they will be off Thursday, ask the agent to create the absence in HR WORKS with the right absence type, and fix the dates later if plans change.

  • HR

    Add a new absence type before rollout

    Set up a new category such as parental leave or a company day in HR WORKS, then check the full list of absence types reads cleanly before announcing it.

  • Team leads

    See who is out before planning the week

    Ask which people on the team have absences or remote work days next week and what working hours are still available, without opening HR WORKS.

  • Recruiting

    Check on an applicant before the interview

    Pull up an applicant's record in HR WORKS a minute before the call, or list everyone in the pipeline for a role to prepare the weekly hiring update.

  • Finance

    Keep cost center assignments current

    When someone moves teams, assign them to the new cost center in HR WORKS and confirm the cost center list matches what the ledger expects.

  • Payroll

    Pull accumulated sick leave for the month

    Ask for accumulated absences and sick leave across the company before the payroll cutoff, so the numbers that reach payroll match what HR WORKS holds.

Try asking

  • “Who on the support team is out sick next week?”
  • “List open applicants for the sales engineer role.”
  • “Show remote work days for the Berlin cost center this month.”

See all 144 HR WORKS tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for HR WORKS

All three can connect HR WORKS to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for HR WORKS, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over HR WORKS tools Allow or restrict single HR WORKS tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per HR WORKS call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

HR WORKS tools for your AI agents

144 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect HR WORKS, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting HR WORKS gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your HR WORKS account.

The agent

Ask about absences and get today's answer.

Type a question in plain language and get answers from live HR WORKS records.

  • absences
  • absence types
  • applicants
  • cost centers

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Who on the support team is out sick next week?

List open applicants for the sales engineer role.

Show remote work days for the Berlin cost center this month.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint, Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

Connect HR WORKS once and every MCP client uses it, no SDK, no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

144 HR WORKS tools, no code to write.

Absences, absence types, applicants, working hours and cost centers, covered out of the box.

  • Get single HR WORKS absence job by ID
  • HR WORKS absence jobs get or error
  • Get single HR WORKS absence type job by ID
  • List all HR WORKS absence types
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
Get single HR WORKS absence job by ID Get Get the status and result of an asynchronous absence write. id is the jobId returned by absences.create, absences.bulk_update, absences.bulk_delete, absences.update, absences.delete. The job is pending until HR WORKS has processed the write, then finished with the written records or the errors (write errors are reported here inside an HTTP 200). Kept for two weeks.
HR WORKS absence jobs get or error Get Get the status of an absences write job, like get (GET /v2/absences/jobs/{jobId}), except that an HTTP error from HR WORKS (e.g. 429 rate limit, 5xx) is returned as a 200 result {"truto_error": {"status": <HTTP status>}} instead of failing. Used by the unified timeoff_requests create/update/delete mappings, which poll the job after HR WORKS accepted the write and must still report the job id when a poll fails.
Get single HR WORKS absence type job by ID Get Get the status and result of an asynchronous absence type write. id is the jobId returned by absence_types.create. The job is pending until HR WORKS has processed the write, then finished with the written records or the errors (write errors are reported here inside an HTTP 200). Kept for two weeks.
List all HR WORKS absence types List List the absence types configured in HR WORKS with their key, name and rules (holiday entitlement, time account, substitution, payroll use). Use the keys as the types filter of absences.list; onlyActive=true returns only active types. Not paginated: everything comes back in one response.
Create a HR WORKS absence type Create Create absence types in bulk: body {data: [...]} with 1-1000 types (name, key and rule flags such as reducesHolidayEntitlement or isSubstitutionMandatory). Asynchronous: returns a jobId; poll absence_type_jobs.get with it until the job is finished (write errors are reported there inside an HTTP 200).

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own HR WORKS toolbox.

HR, Recruiting and Finance each work from a toolbox scoped to what they handle.

  • HR
  • Recruiting
  • Finance
  • Team leads
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

HR toolbox

HR WORKS · absences and absence types

HR WORKS starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Recruiting toolbox

HR WORKS · applicants

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Finance toolbox

HR WORKS · cost centers and assignments

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Team leads toolbox

HR WORKS · absences and working hours

HR WORKS starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Office management toolbox

HR WORKS · remote work and availability

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Payroll toolbox

HR WORKS · sick leave and accumulated absences

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share the connection, never the API key.

One person connects HR WORKS, teammates work through it without ever seeing a credential.

  • HR Germany
  • Recruiting
  • Finance
  • Team leads
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
HR

HR WORKS (HR Germany)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
HR

HR WORKS (Recruiting)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
HR

HR WORKS (Finance)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
HR

HR WORKS (Team leads)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
HR

HR WORKS (Office)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
HR

HR WORKS (Payroll)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Know who touched which absence, and when.

Every call lands in an append-only log with who, what, type and resource.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

emily.carter@northwind.io

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

jake.morgan@northwind.io

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

megan.brooks@northwind.io

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

tyler.reed@northwind.io

HR WORKS Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

HR WORKS Absences Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

HR WORKS Absences List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule starts the absence digest itself.

Absences are fetched, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved by a person, then posted back.

HR WORKS digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch absences

    HR WORKS

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    HR WORKS

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Absence numbers refresh without anyone asking.

Four metrics, 14 days of absences created and a team breakdown, computed without a model.

HR WORKS health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the absences collection

Live

Absences

1,284 ↓ 12%

Absence types

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Absences created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

HR Germany 34%

Recruiting 27%

Finance 21%

Team leads 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect HR WORKS to Claude?

Connect HR WORKS in Elaichi by pasting in your HR WORKS API key. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in to Elaichi when Claude asks and HR WORKS is ready.

Does HR WORKS work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once HR WORKS is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect HR WORKS once and every client picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my HR WORKS data?

An agent connected to HR WORKS can list, create, update and delete absences, look up and add absence types, show accumulated absences, sick leave and remote work, check available working hours, find applicants, and list or assign cost centers. In practice that means asking who is out next week, logging a day off from a chat message, or pulling sick leave totals before payroll. Short, concrete asks such as "who is off Friday" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting HR WORKS give the AI access to every employee's data?

No. The HR WORKS connection carries the permissions of the API key used to connect it, and each person using it signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so their calls run inside what the connection and their Elaichi role allow. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions per action. It can never widen what HR WORKS itself permits.

Can my team share one HR WORKS connection?

Yes. One person connects HR WORKS with the API key and shares the connection with a team in Elaichi, and nobody else on the team ever sees or handles that key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person behind every HR WORKS call.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing absences in HR WORKS?

Yes. In Elaichi you restrict HR WORKS actions one by one, so you can allow reading absences and cost centers while blocking creating, updating or deleting them. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to an HR WORKS connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding the person in Elaichi ends their access to HR WORKS through every client at once. A shared HR WORKS connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect HR WORKS in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client in one step.

Does the HR WORKS MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. HR WORKS is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for HR WORKS?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use HR WORKS. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every HR WORKS call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for HR WORKS?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to HR WORKS: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put HR WORKS in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.