Which HR Tools Have MCP Servers? (Updated Monthly)
As of August 2026, the HR tools running their own MCP server are Workable, Greenhouse, Ashby, Manatal, Zoho Recruit, HiBob, Gusto, Calamari, Lattice, Checkr, and Hirevire. Everything else in HR is reached through a community-built server, an integration gateway like StackOne or Zapier, or not at all.
Last verified: August 21, 2026. Every row below was checked against the vendor's own documentation on that date, and the whole table is re-checked monthly. Statuses move fast in this category, so the date matters as much as the table.
The full table
Five statuses appear below. Native means the vendor runs and supports the server themselves. Announced, labelled early access or private beta, means the vendor has built a server but only invited customers can connect and there is no public URL yet. Community means someone published a server on GitHub that wraps the vendor's public API, with no vendor involvement. Gateway means a third party such as StackOne, Zapier, Apideck, or Knit exposes the vendor's API over MCP. None found means we could not locate a working server of any kind this month.
| Tool | Category | MCP status | What the server does | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workable | ATS | Native | 94 tools covering jobs, candidates, pipeline stages, reviews, requisitions, offers, and employee records. Hosted at mcp.workable.com/mcp with OAuth2 | Workable docs |
| Greenhouse | ATS | Native (open beta) | Curated toolset with org-level admin controls, permission-aware access, and rate limits. Open beta for site admins on Core, Plus, and Pro. Greenhouse MCP in detail | Greenhouse docs |
| Ashby | ATS | Native (open beta) | Candidates, applications, jobs, postings, interviews, offers, notes, feedback, referrals, hiring teams. Per-user OAuth, on every plan | Ashby docs |
| Manatal | ATS | Native | Search candidates and jobs, create notes, manage matches. Enterprise Plus plan only | Manatal docs |
| Zoho Recruit | ATS | Native | Candidate modules and job openings, following the roles and permissions already set in your Zoho account. Zoho Recruit MCP in detail | Zoho docs |
| Lever | ATS | Community | Candidate search and retrieval. Writes are limited to notes and archiving, because Lever's API does not allow stage moves or new applications | GitHub |
| HiBob | HRIS | Native (beta) | Employee data, time off, and tasks. Connects over a URL using a Bob service user token | HiBob docs |
| Workday | HRIS | Early access | Agent-Ready Tools connect over MCP, available to early access customers through Workday Extend Professional. General availability projected for the second half of 2026. Workday MCP in detail | Workday newsroom |
| BambooHR | HRIS | Announced (private beta), plus community and gateway | Bamboo AI's MCP Connections carry BambooHR workforce data into ChatGPT and Claude, but only for select customers in private beta, with no public server URL or setup docs. Everyone else uses a community GitHub server or StackOne, Apideck, or Knit. BambooHR MCP in detail | BambooHR press release |
| SAP SuccessFactors | HRIS | Community and gateway | Employee data, org structures, performance, and recruiting through community servers or a gateway. SAP's own MCP work sits in SAP Build and Joule Studio | Community list |
| ADP | Payroll and HRIS | Gateway | Worker data and workflows through StackOne, Apideck, CData, or the Aquera Agentic AI Bridge listed on ADP Marketplace | ADP Marketplace |
| Sage HR | HRIS | Gateway | Employee and leave records through Apideck, Knit, or StackOne, which exposes 35 actions | Apideck |
| Gusto | Payroll | Native | Payroll and people data over OAuth2, with per-category scoping so you choose what the model can reach | Gusto docs |
| Calamari | Leave and attendance | Native | Clock in and out, submit time off requests, check who is out today. Respects Calamari's role-based permissions | Calamari docs |
| Lattice | Performance | Native | Draft, edit, and submit performance reviews, with context pulled from 1:1s, feedback, goals, and weekly updates | Lattice docs |
| Culture Amp | Engagement | None found | No vendor server and no maintained community server as of this month | n/a |
| Checkr | Background checks | Native | Two servers: one for employers to browse and summarize their own reports, one embeddable server that fetches a candidate's own report | Checkr docs |
| HireVue | Video screening | None found | Nothing from HireVue and nothing maintained by the community. Integration runs through their API and partner connections. HireVue MCP in detail | n/a |
| Spark Hire | Video screening | Gateway | Zapier MCP exposes a handful of Spark Hire actions, including creating a one-way interview | Zapier |
| Willo | Video screening | Gateway | Zapier MCP exposes Willo actions such as creating an interview for a named candidate | Zapier |
| VidCruiter | Video screening | None found | No server of any kind located in August 2026 | n/a |
| Hirevire | Video screening | Native | Post and edit jobs, pull applications with their scores, batch review, and shortlist candidates. Hosted, per-user OAuth, read-only or read and write | Hirevire docs |
Read down the category column and the pattern is hard to miss. Applicant tracking and HRIS platforms have moved: five ATSs and four HRIS or payroll tools now run servers their own engineers maintain. Video screening has not. Of the five screening tools here, two have nothing, two are reachable only through Zapier, and Hirevire is the one running its own.
What each status means when you are the one connecting it
The status column is not a quality ranking, but it does predict who you call when something breaks and how much of your data policy you have to rewrite.
A native server is the easy case. You paste a URL into Claude or ChatGPT, sign in with the account you already have, and the server enforces the permissions your login already carries. Ashby, Workable, Lattice, and Hirevire all work this way. Beta labels like the ones on Greenhouse, Ashby, and HiBob mean the tool list and error behavior can change between releases, which matters if you script against it and matters much less if a recruiter is typing questions into a chat window.
Announced is the frustrating one. Workday's Agent-Ready Tools and BambooHR's MCP Connections both exist, and both sit behind an invitation list rather than a signup page. There is no URL to paste, so if your account is not on that list, your real options are whatever the other three statuses offer.
A community server is code a stranger wrote. It is often good code. For Lever it is the only option at all, and for BambooHR it is the only route that does not need a private beta invitation. Either way you run it yourself and you hand it an API key. That key is usually account-wide rather than scoped to one person, so the server can reach every record the key can reach, whatever the individual user's permissions say. Check the last commit date, check whether the key is stored anywhere, and check whether it supports read-only operation. If your security team has to approve a vendor before it touches HR records, a GitHub repo with ten stars will not clear that bar.
A gateway sits in the middle. StackOne, Zapier, Apideck, and Knit run their own infrastructure and translate one MCP connection into dozens of HR APIs, which helps if you want a single agent reading ADP, Sage HR, and your ATS at once. The trade is a third party in the path of your employee data, usually a per-connection price, and a tool list that mirrors the vendor's API rather than a recruiter's actual questions.
What none of these servers do
Look again at the "what the server does" column. Workable lists jobs, candidates, and stages; Greenhouse covers pipeline reporting and approvals; HiBob handles time off and tasks. Every one of those describes work done to a record after someone decided something about a person, or work done to an employee hired months ago.
The stage where a recruiter actually spends the day is missing. Screening 400 applicants for a warehouse shift means going through 400 sets of answers and deciding which forty are worth a phone call. An ATS server can tell an agent that 400 people applied and move them between stages. It cannot tell the agent what any of them said, because the ATS never held that content. The recording, the transcript, and the score live in the screening tool, and on this list exactly one screening tool runs a server.
So the two categories are worth connecting together rather than choosing between. A team running Greenhouse or Ashby alongside Hirevire can point one agent at both: the ATS answers "who is in the pipeline", the screening server answers "which of them described handling an angry customer well", and the recruiter reads the two shortlisted transcripts and makes the call. Hirevire's MCP integration is built for that arrangement, with per-user OAuth and a read-only mode for teams that do not want an agent writing anything.
How to check whether your own tool has one
Vendor marketing is unreliable here, because "AI-powered" and "supports MCP" get used interchangeably by people who should know better. Four checks, in order:
- Search the vendor's own developer documentation for "MCP" or "Model Context Protocol". A native server almost always has a docs page with a server URL on it.
- Check their changelog or product-update feed for the last six months. Every native server on this list was announced there first.
- If nothing turns up, search GitHub for the tool name plus "mcp". Sort by recently updated, not by stars, and read the last commit date before the README.
- If that also comes up empty, check whether StackOne, Zapier, Apideck, or Knit lists the tool. A gateway listing means you can connect today without the vendor doing anything.
If all four fail, the tool has no MCP path, and the honest question is whether the workflow matters enough to move it rather than wait.
Frequently asked questions
Does BambooHR have an MCP server?
Announced, but not one you can connect to yet. BambooHR launched Bamboo AI on July 21, 2026, and it includes MCP Connections that carry workforce data into ChatGPT, Claude, and other workplace AI tools. BambooHR's developer terms of service now list MCP servers among the developer tools it provides. Bamboo AI is private beta for select customers, though, with no public server URL or connection docs, so anyone outside that beta is still choosing between a community GitHub server and a gateway such as StackOne, Apideck, or Knit. We compared all three routes into BambooHR data, including which community server is the most complete.
Does HireVue have an MCP server?
No. We found no server from HireVue and no maintained community server in August 2026, so connecting an agent to HireVue data is a custom API project rather than a URL you paste into Claude. What HireVue offers instead covers the API and partner routes in full.
Does Workday have an MCP server?
Partly. Workday's Agent-Ready Tools connect over MCP but are limited to early access customers on Workday Extend Professional, with general availability projected for the second half of 2026. We wrote up the three routes into Workday data today for teams that cannot wait for general availability.
Does Greenhouse have an MCP server?
Yes. Greenhouse announced its MCP in May 2026 and rolled it out from June, with org-level admin controls, permission-aware access, and rate limits, in open beta for site admins on the Core, Plus, and Pro tiers. We covered its 36 tools, the scope model, and how to enable it in detail.
Does Zoho Recruit have an MCP server?
Yes. Zoho runs a Recruit-specific server exposing candidate modules and job openings, following your existing Zoho roles and permissions, and it connects to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf. It is free, and you assemble it yourself in the Zoho MCP console. We covered the Zoho Recruit MCP and its alternatives in detail, including the gateway and Zia routes.
Does Manatal have an MCP server?
Yes, on the Enterprise Plus plan, covering candidate and job search, notes, and matches. Hirevire integrates with Manatal directly, so screening results reach Manatal whether or not either server is connected to an agent.
Does Ashby have an MCP server?
Yes, in open beta on every plan, authenticating each user individually over OAuth so an agent inherits that person's permissions rather than a shared key. Hirevire also integrates with Ashby for pushing screening results into the pipeline.
Which video interview platforms have MCP servers?
Of the five in this table, Hirevire is the only one running its own. Spark Hire and Willo are reachable through Zapier's gateway for a small set of actions, and HireVue and VidCruiter have no MCP path we could find.
Is a community MCP server safe to use with employee data?
It depends on the server and what you hand it, and the specific risk is that most community HR servers authenticate with an account-wide API key rather than an individual login. If your organization requires a signed data processing agreement before a vendor touches employee records, a community server will not satisfy it.
How often is this list updated?
Monthly, with every row re-checked against the vendor's own documentation and the date at the top updated to match. If you spot a status that has changed, tell us and we will correct it in the next pass.
The short version
Native servers in August 2026: Workable, Greenhouse, Ashby, Manatal, Zoho Recruit, HiBob, Gusto, Calamari, Lattice, Checkr, Hirevire. Workday and BambooHR have both announced servers that only invited customers can reach. Lever and SAP SuccessFactors are community territory, ADP and Sage HR are gateway territory, and Culture Amp, HireVue, and VidCruiter have nothing.
The gap worth planning around is not any single vendor. It is that the applicant tracking layer has moved and the screening layer mostly has not, which leaves an agent able to tell you who applied but not what they said. If that is the part of the week you wanted to hand off, Hirevire's MCP server connects to Claude or ChatGPT with one URL and an OAuth sign-in, and sits alongside your ATS rather than replacing it.
Last verified: August 21, 2026.