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Sesame MCP connector

Connect Sesame to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent can look up employees, departments, offices and job charges and keep them current, with every person working inside their own Sesame access.

  • 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 Sesame to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Sesame once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Sesame.

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

  3. Paste a Sesame API key. One person generates a token in Sesame 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.

sesame
Sesame
360learning
7shifts
Altera Payroll
BambooHR
Dayforce
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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.

Sesame 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.

Sesame 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.

Sesame 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 Sesame 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 Sesame through Elaichi

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

  • HR

    Catch an employee record up after onboarding

    Ask for a new hire's Sesame record and have the department, office and job charge filled in from the offer letter, without opening five screens.

  • People Ops

    Answer who sits in which department

    Pull the list of Sesame employees for a department or office and get it as a clean table when a manager asks for it.

  • Office management

    Keep offices and locations current

    When a team moves floors or a new site opens, add or update the Sesame office and location and move the affected employees over in one go.

  • Finance

    Check headcount by office before budgeting

    Count Sesame employees per office and department to sanity check the headcount plan against what is actually in the system.

  • Managers

    Find a team member's details fast

    Look up an employee in Sesame by name and get their job charge, department and office without asking HR to dig it out.

  • IT

    Create the employee record on day one

    Create the Sesame employee when the account request comes in, so the record exists before the laptop is handed over.

Try asking

  • “List employees in the Barcelona office with their departments”
  • “Update Ana García's job charge to Senior Account Manager”
  • “Which Sesame departments have no office assigned yet?”

See all 297 Sesame tools below

AI tools

Sesame tools for your AI agents

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

Showing 238 of 297 Sesame tools here. Connect Sesame and call search_tools or tools/list over the MCP endpoint for the complete set.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Sesame gets you

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

The agent

Ask about your people in plain language.

Which employees sit in the Madrid office? Answered from live Sesame records.

  • employees
  • departments
  • offices
  • job charges

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

List employees in the Barcelona office with their departments

Update Ana García's job charge to Senior Account Manager

Which Sesame departments have no office assigned yet?

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint for Sesame in every client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Sesame through one governed endpoint, no SDK, no shared key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

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

Emma Laurent

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
S

Sofia Ricci

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
C

Clara Nowak

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

297 Sesame tools, no custom code needed.

Employees, departments, offices, locations and job charges, covered without writing a line.

  • List all Sesame info
  • List all Sesame employees
  • Get single Sesame employee by ID
  • Create a Sesame employee
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Sesame info List Get the Sesame company that owns the API token (Show Token Info). Truto calls it after connecting to check the token and to label the account with the company name; several create calls, such as employees.create and offices.create, require this company id. Not paginated: the endpoint documents no page or limit. Each record has: company.
List all Sesame employees List List Sesame employees. Sesame returns only active employees unless you pass status[in]=active,inactive (or status[in]=inactive). Filter by code, dni or email, or by departmentIds, officeIds or entityGroupIds (comma-separated UUIDs), and sort with orderBy ("field1 asc, field2 desc"). Paginated by Truto (page/limit, 100 records per page). Each record has: id, firstName, lastName, secondLastName, email, workStatus, workStatusUpdatedAt, imageProfileURL, code, pin (+43 more).
Get single Sesame employee by ID Get Get one Sesame employee by id. Returns: id, firstName, lastName, secondLastName, email, workStatus, workStatusUpdatedAt, imageProfileURL, code, pin (+43 more). Required: id.
Create a Sesame employee Create Create a Sesame employee. companyId is the company id returned by info.list. Set invitation to true to email an invitation to the address in email. Requests use personalEmail and childrenCount where responses use personalMail and children; nationality and professionalCategoryCode are deprecated (use nationalities and contributionGroupId). Returns the whole Sesame body: data (id, firstName, lastName, secondLastName, email, workStatus, workStatusUpdatedAt, imageProfileURL, code, pin (+43 more)) and meta. Required: companyId, firstName, lastName, invitation, status.
Update a Sesame employee by ID Update Update a Sesame employee by id (HTTP PUT). Sesame requires firstName, lastName and status on every update. Requests use personalEmail and childrenCount where responses use personalMail and children. Returns the whole Sesame body: data (id, firstName, lastName, secondLastName, email, workStatus, workStatusUpdatedAt, imageProfileURL, code, pin (+43 more)) and meta. Required: id, firstName, lastName, status.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Sesame toolbox.

HR, Finance and office managers each see only the Sesame tools their work needs.

  • HR
  • People Ops
  • Office management
  • Finance
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

HR toolbox

Sesame · employee records and onboarding

Sesame starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

People Ops toolbox

Sesame · departments and job charges

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Office management toolbox

Sesame · offices and locations

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Finance toolbox

Sesame · headcount by office and department

Sesame starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Managers toolbox

Sesame · their own team's records

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

IT toolbox

Sesame · day one employee creation and offboarding

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share one Sesame connection, hide the key.

Teammates work through a shared Sesame connection without ever seeing the API key.

  • HR Spain
  • HR LATAM
  • People Ops
  • Finance
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
SE

Sesame (HR Spain)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
SE

Sesame (HR LATAM)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
SE

Sesame (People Ops)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
SE

Sesame (Finance)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

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

Sesame (Office Management)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
SE

Sesame (Leadership)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Know who changed each Sesame record.

Every employee update and department change is logged with who, when and what.

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

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emma Laurent

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

James Whitfield

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

S

Sofia Ricci

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

D

Daniel Ortega

[email protected]

Sesame Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Sesame Employees Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Sesame Employees 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 real Sesame work.

New employees are fetched, grouped by office, drafted into a digest and approved before posting.

Sesame digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch employees

    Sesame

    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

    Sesame

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Sesame headcount numbers, refreshed on schedule.

Employees created over 14 days and a breakdown by team, computed without a model.

Sesame health

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

Live

Employees

1,284 ↓ 12%

Departments

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Employees created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

HR Spain 34%

HR LATAM 27%

People Ops 21%

Finance 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Sesame to Claude?

First, connect Sesame in Elaichi by pasting an API key from your Sesame account, which takes about a minute. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. There is no client ID or secret to generate, and Claude will ask you to sign in to Elaichi as yourself.

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

Yes. Once Sesame 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 Sesame once and every client picks it up.

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

It can list and look up Sesame employees, departments, offices, locations and job charges, create new ones, and update or remove existing ones. Ask for the employees in an office, update a job charge after a promotion, or add a department when a team is formed. Short, concrete asks work better than long paragraphs.

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

No. Every call to Sesame runs as the person who signed in, so the AI only sees the employees, departments and offices that person already has access to in Sesame. Elaichi can narrow that access further with roles and restrictions, and it can never widen it.

Can my team share one Sesame connection?

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

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

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Sesame employees while blocking deleting employees, departments or offices. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, so no prompt can reach it.

What happens to a Sesame connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Sesame through every client at once. If they shared a Sesame connection, it keeps working for everyone else on the team. Disconnecting Sesame once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent together.

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

Yes. Sesame 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 Sesame 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.