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.
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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 UKG Ready to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect UKG Ready once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick UKG Ready.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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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.
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
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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.
UKG Ready 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.
UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready 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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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.
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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.
Copy the endpoint
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
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
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
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
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
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch employees
UKG Ready
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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
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
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%
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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 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
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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.