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How to integrate HR Partner MCP with Hermes

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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

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 HR Partner 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 1,000+ 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 HR Partner 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 HR Partner

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

4. Done. You're all set with a new HR Partner 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 HR Partner or request any HR Partner-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

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.

Way Forward

With HR Partner 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 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. 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 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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