Compatible with every major AI agent and IDE
What is the Armano MCP Server?
Connect your Armano account to any AI agent and take full control of your human resources and automated workforce orchestration through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Workforce Portfolio Orchestration — List and manage your entire database of employees programmatically, retrieving detailed profiles and department affiliations
- Time & Attendance Intelligence — Programmatically retrieve time tracking records and monitor clock-in/out metadata to maintain a perfectly coordinated audit trail
- Absence & Leave Architecture — Access your complete directory of time-off requests and statuses to oversee your organizational resource allocation
- Document Monitoring — Access real-time status updates for employee records and retrieve hosted assets directly through your agent
- Operational Monitoring — Verify account-level API connectivity and monitor HR process volume directly through your agent for perfectly coordinated service scaling
How it works
- Subscribe to this server
- Retrieve your API Key from your Armano dashboard (App Integrations section)
- Start orchestrating your workforce from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual checking of individual employee cards or missing leave requests. Your AI acts as your dedicated HR coordinator and workforce architect.
Who is this for?
- HR Managers — instantly retrieve employee summaries and monitor team attendance using natural language commands
- Department Leads — verify individual absence requests and track team availability without leaving your workspace
- Developers — integrate high-speed Armano HR data into custom internal tools through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (10)
Verify Armano API connectivity
Create a time entry
Get employee details
Get project details
Get time entry details
List all departments
List all employees
List all leave requests
List all projects
Optionally filter by date range (YYYY-MM-DD format). List time entries
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Armano to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 10 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Armano in Claude Desktop
Armano and 4,000+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Armano to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 4,000+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Armano in Claude Desktop
The Armano MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 10 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.

* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Armano for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Armano MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my Armano API Key?
Log in to your account, navigate to Settings > App Integrations, and copy your unique API Token from the credentials section.
Can I retrieve time entries via AI?
Yes! The list_time_entries tool allows your agent to retrieve clock-in/out records for any specific period.
How do I list my active employees?
Use the list_employees tool to retrieve your complete directory along with the unique identifiers for all registered staff members.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.
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