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How to integrate Breathe HR MCP with Hermes

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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

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Breathe HR account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,500+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Breathe HR with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Breathe HR

Ask your agent to connect to Breathe HR, or simply request any Breathe HR-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Breathe HR connection.

Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Breathe HR or request any Breathe HR-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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.

Way Forward

With Breathe HR connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Approve Leave Request

Submit an approval for a BreatheHR leave request by ID.

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

Create an employee expense record in BreatheHR for reimbursement or to record a company-paid expense.

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

List benefits for a specific employee by ID, with pagination.

List Employee Bonuses

List bonuses for a specific employee by ID, with pagination.

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

List employees in the BreatheHR account with pagination and optional role-type and RotaCloud filters.

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

List a page of BreatheHR sickness absence records, with optional filters for employee, department, date range, and RotaCloud integration status.

List Working Patterns

List BreatheHR working patterns 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.

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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. Hermes 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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