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How to connect HR Partner to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork 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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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your HR Partner account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all employees on leave this month, create a timesheet entry for John Doe, approve pending expense report for Sarah Lee, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting HR Partner to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your HR Partner account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to HR Partner or give it any HR Partner-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

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

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your HR Partner account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like HR Partner through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

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

The HR Partner MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your HR Partner account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform HR Partner operations on your behalf.

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. Claude Cowork 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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