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UKG Ready MCP connector

The UKG Ready connector brings employee records, accrual balances, deductions and direct deposits into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each person works with the UKG Ready access they already have and every change is 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 UKG Ready to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect UKG Ready once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick UKG Ready.

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

  3. Paste an UKG Ready API key. One person generates a token in UKG Ready 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.

ukg ready
UKG Ready
360learning
7shifts
Altera Payroll
BambooHR
Dayforce
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.

UKG Ready 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.

UKG Ready 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.

UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready through Elaichi

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

  • HR

    Set up a new hire before day one

    Create the employee record in UKG Ready from the offer details, then check it back a week later and fill in anything the hire has since sent over.

  • Payroll

    Fix a direct deposit before payroll closes

    When an employee sends new bank details, update their direct deposit in UKG Ready and confirm the change landed before the run.

  • Benefits

    Add deductions after open enrollment

    Set up the new deductions for everyone who changed a plan, and correct the ones that were entered wrong the first time.

  • People Ops

    Answer time off questions on the spot

    Pull accrual balances for a person or a whole team in UKG Ready when a manager asks who can take the last week of December.

  • Finance

    Review deductions across the company

    List employee deductions in UKG Ready ahead of a close and spot the ones that look out of line before they hit the ledger.

  • Operations

    Keep company contacts and profiles current

    Add a new site contact or check a company profile in UKG Ready without waiting for someone in HR to find a spare minute.

Try asking

  • “Show accrual balances for everyone on the warehouse team.”
  • “Update Maria Lopez's direct deposit to her new checking account.”
  • “Add a 401k deduction for the three new hires starting Monday.”

See all 358 UKG Ready tools below

AI tools

UKG Ready tools for your AI agents

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

Showing 287 of 358 UKG Ready tools here. Connect UKG Ready and call search_tools or tools/list over the MCP endpoint for the complete set.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting UKG Ready gets you

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

The agent

Ask about employees and get live answers.

Ask a plain question and get answers from UKG Ready employee records and balances.

  • employees
  • accrual balances
  • deductions
  • direct deposits

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Show accrual balances for everyone on the warehouse team.

Update Maria Lopez's direct deposit to her new checking account.

Add a 401k deduction for the three new hires starting Monday.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One UKG Ready endpoint for every MCP client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, with no SDK and 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

Emma Laurent

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
S

Sofia Ricci

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
C

Clara Nowak

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

358 UKG Ready tools, no code to write.

Employees, accrual balances, deductions and direct deposits are covered out of the box.

  • List all UKG Ready company profiles
  • List all UKG Ready employees
  • Get single UKG Ready employee by ID
  • Create a UKG Ready employee
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all UKG Ready company profiles List List company profiles in UKG Ready, optionally filtered by profile type. Deprecated as of April 03, 2023; see the v2 companies lookup profiles endpoints as an alternative. Returns: id, name, type. No required parameters. The filter supports field name `type` with the `IN` operator, e.g. type:in:PAY_CALC_PROFILE,ACCESS_PROFILE_DEVICE.
List all UKG Ready employees List List employees the authenticated user has permission to view in UKG Ready. Returns: id, full_name, account_status, employee_id, username, external_id. Optional: ein_id, terminated. Required: cid.
Get single UKG Ready employee by ID Get Get a single UKG Ready employee by id. Returns the core employee record including id, full_name, account_status, employee_id, username, and external_id. Required: id, cid.
Create a UKG Ready employee Create Create a new employee record in UKG Ready covering core employee fields. Additional API calls are required for related data such as pay information or demographics. Returns: id. Requires a JSON request body. Required: cid.
Delete a UKG Ready employee by ID Delete Delete a UKG Ready employee by id. Deletion is restricted when the Pay Statement status is Open, Closed, or Finalized, and employees who are their own manager cannot self-delete. Returns an empty 204 response on success. Required: id, cid.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own UKG Ready toolbox.

Payroll works with direct deposits while HR handles employee records, each from a scoped toolbox.

  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Benefits
  • People Ops
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

HR toolbox

UKG Ready · employee records and onboarding

UKG Ready starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Payroll toolbox

UKG Ready · direct deposits and deductions

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Benefits toolbox

UKG Ready · deductions and plan changes

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

People Ops toolbox

UKG Ready · accrual balances and time off

UKG Ready starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Finance toolbox

UKG Ready · deductions and company profiles

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Operations toolbox

UKG Ready · company contacts and site profiles

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share UKG Ready access without sharing the key.

One admin connects, teammates work through it, and nobody else ever sees the API key.

  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Benefits
  • People Ops
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
UK

UKG Ready (HR)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
UK

UKG Ready (Payroll)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
UK

UKG Ready (Benefits)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
UK

UKG Ready (People Ops)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

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

UKG Ready (Finance)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
UK

UKG Ready (Regional Managers)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every UKG Ready change is on the record.

See who updated a deduction or direct deposit, when, and from which client.

  • 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]

UKG Ready Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

UKG Ready Employees Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

UKG Ready 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 the work, a person approves.

New UKG Ready employees are fetched weekly, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved, then posted back.

UKG Ready digest

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

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch employees

    UKG Ready

    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

    UKG Ready

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

UKG Ready headcount numbers, refreshed without asking.

Four metrics, fourteen days of employees created and a team breakdown, computed with no model involved.

UKG Ready health

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

Live

Employees

1,284 ↓ 12%

Accrual balances

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Employees created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

HR 34%

Payroll 27%

Benefits 21%

People Ops 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect UKG Ready to Claude?

Connect UKG Ready to Claude in two steps. In Elaichi, choose UKG Ready and paste an API key from your UKG Ready account; 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 https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and UKG Ready is ready to use in Claude.

Does UKG Ready work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready once and every client you use picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my UKG Ready data?

With UKG Ready connected, an agent can look up an employee, list a team's accrual balances, add or correct a deduction, update a direct deposit, and create a new employee record or company contact. It can also list company profiles and check its own employee details. Short, concrete asks such as "show Priya's PTO balance" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting UKG Ready give the AI access to every employee's pay and personal details?

No. Each person signs in as themselves, so the AI only sees the UKG Ready employees, deductions and direct deposits that person can already see in UKG Ready. Elaichi can narrow that access further for a team or a role, and it can never widen it beyond what UKG Ready already allows.

Can my team share one UKG Ready connection?

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

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

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading UKG Ready employees and accrual balances while blocking deletes or edits to direct deposits and deductions. A restricted action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to a UKG Ready connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to UKG Ready through every client at once. A shared UKG Ready connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you ever want to remove UKG Ready entirely, disconnect it once in Elaichi and it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent together.

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

Yes. UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready 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.