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How to connect HR Partner MCP with ChatGPT Work

Connect ChatGPT Work to HR Partner MCP. List all employees on leave this month, create a timesheet entry for john doe, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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HR Partner is a human resources platform for managing employee records, leave, recruitment, performance, timesheets, and expenses. Use it to centralize HR workflows, automate manual HR tasks, and keep employee data organized.

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How to connect HR Partner MCP with ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Work is an agent inside ChatGPT built for your most ambitious work. It takes action across your apps and files, stays with a project for hours, and turns a goal into finished materials like sheets, slides, and docs - not just answers.

In this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your HR Partner account to ChatGPT Work via Composio Connect, so it can manage employee records, track leave, submit timesheets, manage candidates, and approve expenses through natural language commands without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why use Composio over default connectors?

  • Apps with read and write access. Default connectors mostly can read your data. Composio's HR Partner integration lets ChatGPT Work take actions like creating drafts, sending updates, labeling records, and more.
  • 1,000+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors, from Gmail and Slack to Notion, Linear, and Salesforce.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand.
  • Cross-app automation. Chain actions across multiple apps in a single run - fetch a thread, summarize it in Notion, and post highlights to Slack without leaving the conversation.

Prerequisites

  • A ChatGPT account with access to ChatGPT Work (rolling out across Pro, Enterprise, Edu, Plus, and Business plans). We will use the ChatGPT desktop app, which is available on every plan.
  • Access to the HR Partner workspace you want to connect.
  • Composio MCP.

Note: Composio connects through OAuth. You will be asked to sign in and approve specific permissions. Review the permission screen carefully if you are using a work account.

Step-by-step: Connect HR Partner to ChatGPT Work

1. Open the MCP settings

In ChatGPT Work, go to Settings and open the Plugins section. Inside the Plugins page, click the MCP tab.

ChatGPT Work settings showing the Plugins page with the MCP tab selected

2. Add the server

Click Add server. In the Name field enter Composio, for Type select Streamable HTTP, and in the URL field paste the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
ChatGPT Work Add server dialog with the name Composio, type Streamable HTTP, and the Composio MCP URL

Then click Save. The Composio server now appears in your MCP plugins list.

ChatGPT Work Plugins page showing the Composio MCP server added to the list

3. Authenticate

Click Authenticate, log in via Composio, and click Allow access to authorize ChatGPT Work to use your Composio account.

Composio login and Allow access screen for ChatGPT Work MCP setup

4. Start using Composio

That is it - Composio tools are now available in ChatGPT Work. Ask it to work with your HR Partner account and it will run the actions you authorize.

What you can do after connecting HR Partner

  • List all employees on leave this month
  • Create a timesheet entry for John Doe
  • Approve pending expense report for Sarah Lee

Security + privacy notes (important)

  • Use least-privilege access: Only grant permissions you actually need.
  • Review OAuth permissions before approving: Make sure requested scopes match what you expect Composio and ChatGPT Work to do.
  • Keep write actions human-reviewed: For actions like sending messages, creating labels, or editing drafts, keep manual confirmation enabled.
  • Be careful with sensitive data: Avoid using this setup with highly sensitive information unless allowed by your personal, company, or client policies.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Get Company

Return the connected HR Partner company's identity, subscription status, workforce counts, timezone, and optionally its custom fields and enabled modules.

Get Employee

Return one employee's detailed HR profile, organization placement, manager, tags, contacts, addresses, and custom data by employee code.

Get Recruitment Record

Return one detailed job, applicant, or application using an identifier from recruitment search results.

List Employee Records

List employee contacts, addresses, goals, checklists, absences, assets, attachments, benefits, dependents, education, grievances, interviews, notes, positions, renewables, legacy reviews, skills, or training records.

List Employees

Find employee summaries using name, organization, status, tag, manager, and employment-date filters.

List Expenses

Return expense claims as a detailed, summary, or transaction report with employee, organization, date, status, payment, category, and project filters.

List Leave Data

List either leave requests or employee leave balances using only filters supported by the selected data type.

List Performance Reviews

List performance-management review cycles by employee, organization, status, and review dates, optionally including selected reviewer forms and answers.

List Timesheets

List timesheet sequences and entries by employee, organization, sequence dates, status, project, activity, and approval, export, or lock state.

Search Recruitment

List jobs, applicants, applications for one job, or application stage changes using resource-appropriate recruitment filters.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes, you can. ChatGPT Work 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 HR Partner tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which HR Partner 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 HR Partner data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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