How to integrate Breathe HR MCP with Atomic Agent

Connect Atomic Agent to Breathe HR MCP. List all employees out on leave this week, add new employee record for onboarding, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Breathe HR is cloud-based HR software for SMEs to manage employee data, absences, and performance. It simplifies HR admin, making it easy to keep employee records accurate and up to date.

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Introduction

Atomic Agent is an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and supports local models through llama.cpp. Connect it to 1,500+ apps through Composio, including Breathe HR.

This guide uses Atomic Agent's built-in Composio integration. You need Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later, your own Composio API key, and a Breathe HR account. See the Atomic Agent documentation for installation instructions.

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How Atomic Agent connects to Breathe HR

Atomic Agent connects to Composio's Tool Router over Streamable HTTP MCP. It discovers the tools needed for your request, and Composio handles account authentication.

Execution and account-connection tools follow Atomic Agent's configured approval policy. Review any approval prompt before allowing an action on your connected account.

Connect Breathe HR to Atomic Agent

  1. Sign up or sign in to the Composio dashboard. Copy your API key.
  2. In Atomic Agent, open the Integrations tab and select Composio. Select API key, press e, paste the key, and press Enter. The tools become available immediately, without a restart.
  3. Ask Atomic Agent to do something in Breathe HR. It searches Composio for the right tool.
  4. On first use, open the sign-in link returned in the chat. Connect your Breathe HR account, then return to Atomic Agent to continue.

Headless setup

Add the following line to ~/.atomic-agent/.env, replacing YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY with your key. Start Atomic Agent after saving the file.

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY

What is the Breathe HR MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Breathe HR MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Breathe HR account. It provides structured and secure access to employee records, departments, absences, leave requests, expenses, and salaries, so your agent can create employees, review HR information, track absences, manage leave approvals, and record expenses on your behalf.

  • Employee record management: Have your agent create new employee records, list your workforce, or retrieve detailed information about a specific employee.
  • Absence and leave tracking: Instruct your agent to review absences and leave requests by date, employee, department, or absence type.
  • Leave request approvals: Direct your agent to approve pending employee leave requests in Breathe HR.
  • Expense administration: Let the agent create employee expense records and review expenses already submitted.
  • Department and salary visibility: Have your agent list company departments and review employee salary information.

Use Breathe HR from Atomic Agent

With your account connected, ask Atomic Agent to work with Breathe HR in natural language. You can connect more apps through the same Composio integration as you need them.

Visit the Atomic Agent website or inspect the Atomic Agent source code.

Troubleshooting

Why is my API key rejected?

Copy the key directly from the Composio dashboard. Atomic Agent requires ASCII characters because it sends the key in an HTTP header. Remove any extra characters introduced when copying.

Why are Composio tools unavailable after saving a key?

Check that you use Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later and that Composio is enabled in your configuration. A "composio": { "enabled": false } setting disables the integration while keeping the saved key on disk.

Does Composio have a free plan?

The Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month. Composio-managed OAuth apps have a lower included allowance. See Composio pricing for the current limits that apply to your connection.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Approve Leave Request

Tool to approve a leave request in BreatheHR.

Create Employee

Tool to create a new employee in BreatheHR.

Create Employee Change Request

Tool to create a change request for an employee field.

Create Employee Expense

Tool to create an employee expense record in BreatheHR.

Create Employee Expense Claim

Tool to create a new expense claim for an employee.

Create Employee Sickness

Tool to create a sickness record for an employee in BreatheHR.

Delete Employee Expense

Tool to delete an employee expense by ID.

Delete Employee Training Course

Tool to delete an employee training course record by its ID.

Get Account

Tool to retrieve account information including ID, name, domain, UUID, and RTA usage status.

Get Employee

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific employee by ID.

Get Employee Expense

Tool to retrieve a specific employee expense record by ID.

Get Leave Request

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific leave request by ID.

Get Leave Request Cancelling

Tool to retrieve the leave request that is being cancelled.

List Absences

Tool to list all absences with optional filtering by date range, employee, department, and type.

List Employee Benefits

Tool to retrieve a list of employee benefits with optional pagination.

List Employee Bonuses

Tool to retrieve employee bonuses from BreatheHR with pagination support.

List Change Requests

Tool to list change requests from BreatheHR.

List Company Documents

Tool to retrieve a paginated list of company documents from BreatheHR.

List Company Projects

Tool to list company projects from BreatheHR.

List Company Training Types

Tool to list company training types.

List Department Absences

Tool to list absences for a specific department.

List Department Benefits

Tool to list all employee benefits for a specific department.

List Department Bonuses

Tool to list bonuses for a specific department.

List Department Leave Requests

Tool to list leave requests for a specific department.

List Departments

Tool to list all company departments from BreatheHR.

List Department Salaries

Tool to list salaries for a specific department.

List Divisions

Tool to retrieve all company divisions.

List Employee Absences

Tool to list absences for a specific employee from BreatheHR.

List Employee Benefits

Tool to list benefits for an employee.

List Employee Bonuses

Tool to list bonuses for a specific employee.

List Employee Change Requests

Tool to list change requests for a specific employee.

List Employee Expense Claims

Tool to list employee expense claims from BreatheHR.

List Employee Expenses

Tool to list employee expenses from BreatheHR.

List Employee Holiday Years

Tool to get holiday years for an employee.

List Employee Jobs

Tool to list employee jobs with optional employee filtering.

List Employee Leave Requests

Tool to list leave requests for a specific employee.

List Employees

Tool to list all employees in the BreatheHR account with pagination support.

List Employee Salaries

Tool to list salaries for a specific employee.

List Employee Training Courses

Tool to list employee training courses with optional filtering by employee and pagination support.

List Holiday Allowances

Tool to list holiday allowances configured for the company.

List Leave Requests

Tool to list all leave requests with optional date and employee/department filtering.

List Locations

Tool to list all company locations from BreatheHR.

List Other Leave Reasons

Tool to list other leave reasons configured for the company in BreatheHR.

List Salaries

Tool to list employee salaries with pagination support.

List Sicknesses

Tool to list all sickness records from BreatheHR with optional date filtering.

List Working Patterns

Tool to list all working patterns defined in the BreatheHR account with pagination support.

Reject Leave Request

Tool to reject a leave request in BreatheHR.

Update Employee Expense Claim

Tool to approve or reject an employee expense claim.

Update employee training course

Tool to update an existing employee training course record in BreatheHR.

Update Sickness

Tool to update an existing sickness record in BreatheHR.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Breathe HR MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Breathe HR tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Breathe HR and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Atomic Agent fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Breathe HR tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Breathe HR scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Breathe HR data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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