HiBob MCP for AI Agents. Manage HR data, payroll, and leave status instantly.
HiBob MCP automates your entire people operations workflow through natural conversation. Manage employee data, track time off balances, process payroll history lookups, and handle onboarding tasks without touching a spreadsheet. Connect HiBob to any AI agent running in Claude, Cursor, or VS Code and treat your assistant like a dedicated HR Coordinator.
Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access
Search for specific staff members using detailed filters or pull basic contact information across the entire company.
Check current employee leave balances, identify who is out of the office, or submit new time off requests.
Retrieve historical payroll records and access detailed salary and benefit information for any staff member.
List all open HR tasks, mark them as complete, or send welcome invitations to new hires.
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What AI agents can do with HiBob with 11 Tools
These tools let your AI client interact directly with HiBob data to perform everything from searching profiles to submitting time off requests.
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Start using HiBob MCPComplete Task
Marks a specific, identified HR task as finished within the system.
Get Leave Balance
Provides the current time off balance for an employee.
Get Employee Compensation
Retrieves detailed information about an employee's salary and benefits package.
Get Payroll History
Accesses the platform's complete history of payroll data.
List Public Profiles
Pulls basic contact information for all currently active employees in the...
Get Whos Out
Lists staff members who are on leave within a specified date range.
Invite Employee
Sends an official welcome invitation to a new hire.
List Company Settings Lists
Retrieves all custom lists and configuration dropdowns used throughout the HiBob...
List Open Tasks
Lists every pending HR task that needs attention across the company.
Search Employees
Searches for active employees using filters and returns detailed profiles based on...
Request Time Off
Submits a new time off request for an employee, requiring policy details, start...
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HR operations used to mean endless clicking through separate platforms. Solved with Vinkius AI Gateway
Today, managing employee data requires jumping between the directory for contact info, logging into the PTO system to check balances, and opening a finance dashboard just to see payroll history. You spend time copying IDs, cross-referencing dates in spreadsheets, and waiting for reports that are always slightly outdated.
With this MCP, you stop clicking and start talking. Your agent handles all those steps internally. You ask about an employee's profile, check their leave balance, and pull compensation details—all from one prompt. It just works.
HiBob MCP delivers instant People Ops control.
The manual process of listing open tasks (list_open_tasks) and then sending welcome invitations (invite_employee) used to be a multi-stage, multi-person handoff. You'd track who was supposed to do what next, often missing steps.
Now, you tell your agent the task list, get help checking basic contact details with list_public_profiles, and even handle payroll data retrieval—everything happens immediately. Your AI client is now a single source of truth.
What your AI can actually do with this
You can manage nearly every aspect of people operations by connecting your hiBob platform. Instead of juggling multiple tabs, you talk to your agent. You can quickly search for employees using specific criteria to pull full profiles or just basic contact info. Need to know who's out this week? Your agent checks leave balances and identifies who is currently on time off.
Want to submit a request? You can send new time off requests directly through the chat, and even mark open HR tasks as completed when they're finished. Payroll data isn't just for finance—your agent retrieves detailed compensation packages or pulls historical payroll records so you always have accurate information at your fingertips.
When you connect this to Vinkius, you get a single point of access where your AI client acts like an instant People Ops Specialist.
019d7560-3b34-7305-a020-13dc4591c98e Here's how it actually works
The bottom line is: you talk to the system like talking to a people operations specialist, and it executes complex HR queries behind the scenes.
Subscribe to the HiBob MCP and enter your Service User API Token.
Connect this MCP to your preferred AI client (Claude, Cursor, etc.) via Vinkius.
Use natural language prompts within your chat interface to execute HR actions.
Who is this actually for?
HR Managers and Operations Leaders who are tired of manually exporting data from HiBob into spreadsheets. This MCP gives you real-time control over employee records, time off policies, and payroll history without leaving your chat window.
Checks leave compliance for upcoming planning periods or uses the search_employees tool to instantly retrieve detailed profiles during annual reviews.
Uses get_whos_out to see who is out this week and checks list_open_tasks to ensure pending approval tasks are managed promptly.
Automates the oversight of payroll history retrieval or sends welcome invitations using invite_employee when new team members join.
What Changes When You Connect
You get real-time visibility into team availability. Instead of manually checking who is out using a separate calendar tool, you ask your agent to run get_whos_out for any date range, giving instant status updates.
Payroll data becomes conversational. You don't need to export files or navigate complex reports; simply prompt your agent for the get_payroll_history and compensation details for deep financial insight.
Onboarding is streamlined. When a new person starts, you can use invite_employee to send the welcome package, while simultaneously using search_employees to gather their full profile data into one place.
Task management moves at the speed of thought. You can list all outstanding items with list_open_tasks and then immediately mark an item as done by calling complete_task—all in a single chat session.
Time off requests are effortless. Need to approve leave? Use get_leave_balance to check remaining time, or use request_time_off to submit the actual request for approval.
See it in action
Auditing a team's time-to-hire compliance
An HR Manager needs to confirm if all new hires completed their mandatory onboarding steps. They ask their agent to list_open_tasks, identify overdue items, and then use search_employees to find the associated employee records for follow-up.
Processing a leave request mid-meeting
A Team Lead gets asked about coverage. They prompt their agent to get_whos_out for the next three weeks, then use get_leave_balance on key team members to confirm available PTO.
Investigating a pay discrepancy
A manager notices an employee's compensation might be wrong. They immediately prompt their agent to get_employee_compensation and cross-reference it with historical payroll data using get_payroll_history for accuracy.
Handling mass new hires efficiently
The Operations Leader has 15 people starting next month. They use invite_employee to trigger the welcome workflow, then run list_public_profiles to build a master contact sheet instantly.
The honest tradeoffs
What to watch out for, and the recommended way to handle each one.
Using multiple spreadsheets
Exporting employee lists for contacts, running a second report for leave balances, and a third one for payroll history. This takes 20 minutes of manual clicking.
Use your agent to list_public_profiles for basic contact info, then run get_leave_balance or get_payroll_history in sequence. You keep all the data within your chat conversation.
Forgetting task context
Seeing a massive list of open tasks (list_open_tasks) but not knowing which ones are actually actionable for you.
Ask your agent to filter the results based on your department or role, and once done, use complete_task right away to clear the backlog.
Confusing search scope
Searching manually through a directory for an employee's full profile when they only remember their job title.
Use search_employees with specific filters. The agent pulls the full, detailed profile instantly without requiring you to know the exact ID.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
You need this MCP if your role involves regularly checking employee status, managing time off policies, or auditing compensation data. If your primary workflow is centered on people operations—like an HR Manager or Ops Director—you'll find immediate value because it consolidates all these functions into a natural conversation flow. Don't use this if you only need to pull static documents (like policy PDFs); this MCP focuses entirely on live, transactional data retrieval and updates. If your main goal is simply communication (e.g., sending an internal email), then using a dedicated messaging tool will be better. But if the core problem is 'I don't have real-time access to accurate people data,' then HiBob MCP solves that by giving you tools like get_leave_balance and search_employees, allowing your AI client to act as your dedicated HR database interface.
Questions you might have
Can HiBob MCP track who was on leave using the get_whos_out tool? +
Yes, it can. You ask for a date range, and your agent returns a list of all employees currently marked as out of office.
How do I submit a time off request with HiBob MCP? +
You use the request_time_off tool by providing the policy type, start date, and end date in your prompt. The agent handles submitting the official request.
Does search_employees allow me to filter for specific roles? +
Yes, you can pass detailed JSON filters into the search_employees tool. This allows you to find employees based on criteria beyond just department or name.
What kind of payroll data does get_payroll_history provide? +
It retrieves the platform's historical payroll records. This means you can see compensation details over time for auditing purposes.
Can I use HiBob MCP to mark a task as complete? +
Absolutely. You first list all open tasks using list_open_tasks, and then you call complete_task on the specific ID to clear it from your pending items.