Bamboohr MCP server for AI agents and assistants

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Bamboohr MCP or direct API to fetch employee records, manage PTO, onboard new hires, and update HR data through natural language.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Bamboohr action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Candidate Application

Tool to create a candidate application.

Create Job Opening

Tool to create a new job opening in BambooHR ATS.

List Job Applications

Tool to list job applications with optional filters.

Get Benefit Coverages

Tool to retrieve standard benefit coverage options.

Get Member Benefit Events

Tool to list member benefit events.

Get Company EINs

Tool to retrieve company Employer Identification Numbers (EINs).

Get Company Information

Tool to retrieve company information.

Create File Category

Tool to create new company file categories.

Create Time Off Request

Tool to submit a new time off request.

List Datasets

Tool to list available datasets via the Datasets API.

Create Employee Dependent

Tool to add a dependent to an employee.

Get All Employee Dependents

Tool to retrieve all employee dependents.

Create Employee

Tool to create a new employee record.

Create Employee File Category

Tool to create new employee file categories.

Get Changed Employees

Tool to get employees inserted, updated, or deleted since a given timestamp.

List Company Files

Tool to list company file categories and their files.

Upload Company File

Tool to upload a new company file.

Get All Employees

Retrieves all employees from the BambooHR employee directory including their basic information and status.

Get Applicant Statuses

Tool to retrieve applicant statuses.

Get Custom Employee Fields

Tool to fetch custom employee field values.

Run Custom Report

Tool to run a custom report by ID or ad-hoc fields.

Get Employee

Tool to retrieve detailed information for a specific employee.

Get Employee Photo

Tool to retrieve an employee's profile photo by size.

Get Hiring Leads

Tool to retrieve potential hiring leads (employees who can manage job openings) for use in creating a new job opening.

Get Job Summaries

Tool to retrieve a list of ATS job summaries.

Get Departments Metadata

Tool to list department metadata.

Get Meta Divisions

Tool to list all division metadata.

List Employment Status Metadata

Tool to list all employment status metadata.

Get Meta Job Titles

Tool to retrieve job title metadata.

Get Meta Locations

Tool to list location metadata.

Get Time-Off Types Metadata

Tool to list time-off type metadata.

Get Report

Tool to fetch a built-in or published report in JSON or other formats.

Get Time-Off Balances

Tool to retrieve time-off balances for employees.

Get Time-Off Requests

Tool to list time-off requests within a date range.

List Company Reports

Tool to list all available company and custom reports.

Get Country Options

Tool to retrieve all available country options.

Get List Field Details

Tool to get details for all list fields.

Get Tabular Fields Metadata

Tool to list tabular table fields metadata.

Get Users

Tool to list active users with basic info.

Update Employee

Tool to update fields on a specified employee record.

Update Time Off Request

Tool to update the status of an existing time-off request.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Bamboohr MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["bamboohr"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to Bamboohr and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "Add a dependent to employee 123 for health benefits",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a Bamboohr request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Bamboohr API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["bamboohr"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to Bamboohr
3

Run Bamboohr tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "Add a dependent to employee 123 for health benefits" }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the Bamboohr tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Bamboohr Integration

  • Supports both Bamboohr MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Bamboohr data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in OAuth handling with automatic token refresh and rotation
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Bamboohr access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Bamboohr
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Bamboohr resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Bamboohr requires connections to go through your own OAuth app. You register it once with Bamboohr, add its client ID and secret in the Composio dashboard, and from then on everyone connects by signing in to Bamboohr as usual. Composio handles the rest of the flow and the token refresh.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Yes. Composio is SOC 2 Type II compliant and is built to keep your Bamboohr connection and credentials secure. OAuth tokens and API keys are encrypted, and sensitive customer data is protected at rest and in transit.

Composio also undergoes independent security testing and continuously monitors its systems for security threats. You can review the latest reports and policies in the Composio Trust Center.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

When you connect a Bamboohr account through Composio, every action runs under that account, so anything the agent creates, sends, or changes shows up in Bamboohr as done by you. Keep an approval step in your prompt for actions with side effects, such as sending or deleting, and have the agent draft first.

Exactly the ones Bamboohr lists on its consent screen when you connect. Review that screen before approving. If you connect a work account, your Bamboohr administrator may need to approve the app first, and you can revoke the access inside Bamboohr whenever you want.

Yes. Composio supports multiple connected accounts for the same app, and that works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant you connect through Composio. Give each Bamboohr connection a name such as work or personal, and the assistant uses the one you mention in the request. Each account keeps its own credentials and nothing is merged.

Composio refreshes Bamboohr tokens automatically, so day to day you do nothing. If you revoke access inside Bamboohr, or Bamboohr invalidates the session, the connection shows as expired in Composio and the agent stops acting on that account until you reconnect it, which is a single sign-in.

Composio's free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month with no credit card, which covers most personal Bamboohr use. Paid plans add higher limits and team features. Your Bamboohr plan and its API limits still apply as usual.

Built-in connectors usually give one AI access to a limited set of apps. Many people use Composio because it lets their AI connect to more apps than it normally supports, or connect to multiple accounts for the same app (e.g. connect Claude to multiple Bamboohr accounts).

With Composio, you connect Bamboohr once and then use it across different AI assistants without setting it up separately in each one. Connect your apps to Composio once, then connect Composio to whichever AI you use, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or your own custom assistant.

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