Can my team share one Personio connection?

Yes. One person connects Personio in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the Personio API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person behind every employee lookup or change.

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Personio MCP connector

Connect Personio to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot or any MCP client can look up employees, check time off and absence balances, and update employee records, each person inside their own Personio access, every action logged.

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Claude Elaichi connected

Who is on time off in Personio next week?

Working in Personio with Elaichi

List all Personio employees
Get single Personio employee by ID
List all Personio time off types

Ask anything…

Governance / Audit log Last 24 hours

List all Personio time off types Emily Carter ·

9:41 AM Done

Get single Personio employee by ID Emily Carter ·

9:41 AM Done

List all Personio employees Emily Carter ·

9:41 AM Done

Create a Personio employee Megan Brooks ·

9:38 AM Done

Update a Personio employee by ID Ryan Hayes ·

9:35 AM Done

How to connect Personio to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot

Step by step, for each AI app

Personio MCP connector for Claude

1

Open Customize, then Connectors.
2

Press Add.
3

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

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

Sign in and approve.

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

Personio MCP connector for Claude Code

1

In a terminal, run claude mcp add with the endpoint.

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

Start Claude Code and run /mcp.
3

Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.

Terminal

$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp

Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.

Personio MCP connector for ChatGPT

1

Open Plugins, then press the + button.
2

Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

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

Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
4

Press Create, then sign in and approve.

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

Personio MCP connector for Cursor

1

Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.
2

Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

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

Personio MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot

1

In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
2

Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.

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

Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
4

Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.

Server URL: https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Authentication: OAuth 2.0
Type: Dynamic discovery

Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.

Connect Personio to any MCP client

1

Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

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

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What teams do with Personio through Elaichi

Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Personio is logged.

HR

See who is out this week

Ask which employees have time off booked for the coming days and what kind of leave it is, without opening the Personio calendar.
HR

Set up a new hire before day one

Create the employee record in Personio with name, position, start date and department as soon as the offer is signed.
Managers

Check a team member's remaining leave

Find out how many vacation days someone has left before you approve their next request.
Finance

Reconcile headcount before payroll runs

Pull the current list of Personio employees by department and status and compare it against what payroll expects.
IT

Confirm a starter's details before provisioning

Look up a new employee's role, team and start date in Personio so accounts and equipment are ready on time.
Office management

Clear a withdrawn absence from the calendar

When someone cancels a trip, remove the time off entry in Personio so the team calendar and balances stay accurate.

Try asking

“Who is on time off in Personio next week?”
“Show absence balances for the Berlin engineering team.”
“List Personio employees who joined in the last month.”

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What connecting Personio gets you

6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Personio account.

Elaichi Agent

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Who is on time off in Personio next week?

Show absence balances for the Berlin engineering team.

List Personio employees who joined in the last month.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot

The agent

Ask about employees, get answers from Personio.

Plain language questions answered from live Personio employees, time offs and absence balances.

ElaichiAI apps

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Microsoft Copilot

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

AI apps

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot reach Personio.

One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared Personio API key.

ElaichiTools

Tool	Action	Description
List all Personio employees	List	List Personio employees with optional filtering. Returns each employee record with type and attributes containing id, first_name, last_name, email, gender, status, position, hire_date, and more. Optional filters: email, attributes, updated_since. When updated_since is used, email, limit, and offset are ignored.
Get single Personio employee by ID	Get	Get a single Personio employee by id. Returns the employee record with type and attributes containing id, first_name, last_name, email, gender, status, position, hire_date, and more. Required: id.
Create a Personio employee	Create	Create a new Personio employee. Returns: id, message. Required: employee (with email, first_name, and last_name). If status is omitted, it is derived from hire_date (active if past, onboarding if future).
Update a Personio employee by ID	Update	Update an existing Personio employee by id. Returns: id, message. Email cannot be updated; only the listed fields are updatable and other attributes are ignored. Required: id.
Create a Personio auth	Create	Request an authentication token from Personio using API client credentials. Returns: token, expires_in, scope. The bearer token is stable for 24 hours.

Tool catalog

All 10 Personio tools ready to call.

Employees, time off types, time offs and absence balances, with no custom code.

ElaichiToolboxes

Name	Source template	Tools	Created
People Ops toolbox Personio · employees and records	Personio starter	18	Mar 4, 2026
Payroll toolbox Personio · absence balances	—	9	Mar 2, 2026
Managers toolbox Personio · team time offs	—	24	Feb 27, 2026
Recruiting toolbox Personio · new employee records	Personio starter	6	Feb 19, 2026
Finance toolbox Personio · headcount reporting	—	31	Jan 30, 2026
IT toolbox Personio · onboarding and offboarding	—	12	Jan 22, 2026

Toolboxes

Each team gets its own Personio toolbox.

Curate toolboxes so People Ops, Payroll and Managers see different Personio tools.

ElaichiConnections

Connection	Scope	Status	Access
PE Personio (People Ops) Connected by Emily Carter	Personal	• Active	1 team · 6 members
PE Personio (Payroll) Connected by Jake Morgan	Organization	• Active	3 teams · 24 members
PE Personio (Managers EMEA) Connected by Megan Brooks	Organization	• Active	2 teams · 11 members
PE Personio (Recruiting) Connected by Tyler Reed	Personal	• Needs re-auth	1 team · 3 members
PE Personio (Finance) Connected by Ryan Hayes	Personal	• Active	Not shared
PE Personio (IT Onboarding) Connected by Ashley Parker	Personal	• Active	2 teams · 9 members

Shared connections

Share a Personio connection, never the credential.

See who connected each Personio account and which teams and members use it.

ElaichiAudit log

When	Who	What happened	Type
2 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM	E Emily Carter [email protected]	Restriction Created	Access
8 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM	J Jake Morgan [email protected]	Restriction Updated	Access
14 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM	M Megan Brooks [email protected]	Role Assigned	Access
20 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM	T Tyler Reed [email protected]	Personio Users Updated	MCP
26 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM	R Ryan Hayes [email protected]	Personio Employees Created	MCP
32 minutes ago Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM	A Ashley Parker [email protected]	Personio Employees List	Toolbox

Audit log

Every Personio call is on the record.

When, who, what happened, type and resource for each employee and time off call.

From answering questions to doing the work

A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.

Personio digest

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

Run now

✓

Schedule

Every weekday at 8:00 AM

0.2s
✓

Fetch employees

Personio

1.4s
✓

Group by owner

Transform

0.1s
✓

Draft the digest

Agent step

Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

6.2s
Approve the digest

Needs approval

Assigned to Jake Morgan

Approve Deny
Post the digest

Personio

Queued

Automations

A schedule drafts your Personio absence digest.

Fetch time offs, group them, draft a digest, approve it, post back to Personio.

Personio health

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

Live

Employees

1,284 ↓ 12%

Time offs

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Employees created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

People Ops 34%

Payroll 27%

Managers EMEA 21%

Recruiting 18%

Collections and dashboards

Personio headcount numbers, counted not generated.

Four metrics, 14 days of employee records and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.

For IT and engineering

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Personio

All three can connect Personio 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 Personio, 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 Personio tools	Allow or restrict single Personio 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 Personio 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	Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold.	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.

Personio tools for your AI agents

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

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Questions, answered

How do I connect Personio to Claude?

Connect Personio in Elaichi first: Personio signs in with an API key, so you paste the key from your Personio settings and the connection is ready. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and Personio appears in Claude.

Does Personio work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

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

What can an AI agent actually do with my Personio data?

With Personio connected, an agent can list your employees, look up a single person's record, create a new employee and update an existing one. It can also list your time off types, show who has time off booked, open a specific absence, remove a time off entry and report remaining absence balances. It cannot do anything in Personio beyond those actions.

Does connecting Personio give the AI access to every employee record?

No. Every request runs inside the access of the person who connected Personio, so the agent sees only the employees, absences and balances that person's Personio API key can reach. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example by restricting the ability to update or delete, but it can never grant more than Personio itself allows.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Personio?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading employees and absence balances while restricting the ability to create or update an employee or delete a time off entry. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT or any other client cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.

What happens to a Personio connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Personio at once, in every client they used. If they had shared a Personio connection with a team, that connection keeps working for everyone else. Disconnecting Personio once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and every other client at the same time.

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

Yes. Personio 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, Microsoft Copilot, 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 Personio?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Personio. 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 Personio call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Personio?

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 Personio: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

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When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.

Add one link to your AI app

The same link for everyone on your team.

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp

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Personio MCP connector

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Connect Personio to any MCP client

What teams do with Personio through Elaichi

See who is out this week

Set up a new hire before day one

Check a team member's remaining leave

Reconcile headcount before payroll runs

Confirm a starter's details before provisioning

Clear a withdrawn absence from the calendar

What connecting Personio gets you

Ask about employees, get answers from Personio.

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot reach Personio.

All 10 Personio tools ready to call.

Each team gets its own Personio toolbox.

Share a Personio connection, never the credential.

Every Personio call is on the record.

From answering questions to doing the work

A schedule drafts your Personio absence digest.

Personio headcount numbers, counted not generated.

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Personio

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Questions, answered

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