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.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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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.
In Elaichi
Connect HR WORKS once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick HR WORKS.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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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.
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
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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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
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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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
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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.
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- }} instead of failing. used by the unified timeoff_requests create mapping to read the new absence back after its write job finished, so a failing read-back can still report the job id.">
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- }} instead of failing. used by the unified groups create/update mappings to read the cost center back after its write job finished, so a failing read-back can still report the job id.">
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- }} instead of failing. used by the unified employees create/update mappings, which poll the job after hr works accepted the write and must still report the job id when a poll fails.">
- }} instead of failing. used by the unified timeoff_requests, timeoff_balances and timesheet_entries mappings, which resolve the person of every record through this endpoint and must still return the records when it is not readable.">
- }} instead of failing. used by the unified timeoff_requests.get mapping, which resolves the absence's employee from the licence number in the absence number and must still return the absence when that look-up is not permitted.">
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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.
Copy the endpoint
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
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
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
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
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 Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch absences
HR WORKS
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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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
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%
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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 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.
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.
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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.