BrightHR

BrightHR MCP Connector for Claude

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Simplify people management with holiday tracking, shift scheduling, and absence management built for UK and ANZ businesses.

12 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect your BrightHR account to any AI agent and take full control of your workforce management and employee lifecycle through natural conversation.

What you can do

  • Employee Orchestration — List and manage all employee profiles programmatically, including job roles, departments, and high-fidelity compensation metadata
  • Absence & Leave Intelligence — Monitor sickness, lateness, and planned holiday requests in real-time to maintain a perfectly coordinated team schedule
  • Benefits & Training Monitoring — Access complete directories of employee benefits and retrieve training history to oversee organizational development
  • Operational Visibility — Access high-fidelity metadata for your organization and monitor active webhooks directly through your agent for instant reporting
  • Connectivity Verification — Verify API health and check connectivity status programmatically to ensure a perfectly coordinated integration ecosystem

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Retrieve your Access Token from your BrightHR dashboard (Settings > API or Developer Portal)
  3. Start managing your human resources from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client

No more manual toggling between HR dashboards or digging through complex holiday tables. Your AI acts as your dedicated HR administrator and team coordinator.

Who is this for?

  • HR Managers — instantly retrieve employee summaries and log absences using natural language commands
  • Team Leaders — monitor holiday schedules and verify team availability without leaving your workspace
  • Business Owners — automate the oversight of organizational structure and compensation through simple AI queries
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12 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

check_api_health

Verify BrightHR API status

record_absence

g., sickness) for an employee. Log a new employee absence

get_organization_info

Get company details

get_employee_details

Get details for a specific employee

get_employee_job_details

Get job metadata

get_employee_salary_info

Get salary information

list_absences

Can be filtered by employee ID. List employee absences

list_employee_benefits

List benefits for an employee

list_employees

List all employees

list_holiday_requests

Can be filtered by employee ID. List holiday/leave requests

list_training_records

List training history

list_configured_webhooks

List active webhooks

See how to talk to your AI agent using BrightHR.

List all active employees in my organization.

I've retrieved your employee directory. You currently have 25 active staff members, including @user1 and @user2. Would you like to see the detailed job metadata for any of them?

Show the holiday requests for employee ID 'emp_123'.

Fetching leave records... Employee emp_123 has 2 upcoming holiday requests: a 1-week trip in June (Approved) and a 3-day break in August (Pending). Shall I retrieve the high-fidelity absence history for them?

Record a sickness absence for @user1 starting from tomorrow.

Absence recorded! I've successfully registered the sickness absence for @user1 in BrightHR. The start date is set for tomorrow. Shall I notify the team lead about this update?

Log in to your account, navigate to **Settings** > **API**, or visit the **BrightHR Developer Portal** to generate a Personal Access Token.

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