BambooHR for AI agents

BambooHR is an HR platform for tracking employees, job openings, time off, benefits, and company files, used by HR teams to run people operations in one place. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.

Connect BambooHR See the 42 actions ↓

HR and recruitingOAuth 2.0MCP + RESTbamboohr.com

AUDIT LOG · BAMBOOHRPOLICY: acme-support

09:41:07 · claude · u_8f2read

bamboohr.list_builtin_reports

List Company Reports✓ allowed · 212ms

09:41:08 · claude · u_8f2read

bamboohr.get_report

Get Report✓ allowed · 164ms

09:41:09 · claude · u_8f2write

bamboohr.create_file_category

Create File Category✓ approved · approved by user

EVERY BAMBOOHR CALL, ON THE RECORD

01 · USE CASES

What agents do in BambooHR.

Look up an employee's record

Get an employee's profile, department, and job title before answering a manager's question about the org chart.

Log a new hire

Create an employee record and add their dependents once a new hire's paperwork has been signed off.

Route a time-off request

Create a time-off request on an employee's behalf, but route it for a manager's approval before it's marked approved.

02 · ACTIONS

42 BambooHR actions, graded by risk.

Every BambooHR action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.

read

Look things up. Allowed by default.

bamboohr.get_report
Get Report
bamboohr.get_employee
Get Employee
bamboohr.get_hiring_leads
Get Hiring Leads
bamboohr.get_all_employees
Get All Employees
bamboohr.get_job_summaries
Get Job Summaries
bamboohr.get_custom_reports
Run Custom Report
bamboohr.get_employee_photo
Get Employee Photo
bamboohr.get_meta_divisions
Get Meta Divisions
bamboohr.get_meta_locations
Get Meta Locations
bamboohr.get_meta_job_titles
Get Meta Job Titles
bamboohr.get_meta_departments
Get Departments Metadata
bamboohr.list_builtin_reports
List Company Reports
bamboohr.get_time_off_balances
Get Time-Off Balances
bamboohr.get_time_off_policies
Get Time-Off Policies
bamboohr.get_time_off_requests
Get Time-Off Requests
bamboohr.get_applicant_statuses
Get Applicant Statuses

+ 3 MORE

write

Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.

bamboohr.update_employee
Update Employee
bamboohr.create_file_category
Create File Category
bamboohr.create_time_off_request
Create Time Off Request
bamboohr.update_time_off_request
Update Time Off Request
bamboohr.files_list
List Company Files
bamboohr.files_upload
Upload Company File
bamboohr.datasets_list
List Datasets
bamboohr.meta_get_users
Get Users
bamboohr.employee_create
Create Employee
bamboohr.company_get_eins
Get Company EINs
bamboohr.dependents_create
Create Employee Dependent
bamboohr.dependents_get_all
Get All Employee Dependents
bamboohr.meta_get_countries
Get Country Options
bamboohr.ats_create_candidate
Create Candidate Application
bamboohr.ats_get_applications
List Job Applications
bamboohr.employee_get_changed
Get Changed Employees

+ 7 MORE

destructive

Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.

No destructive actions.

03 · HOW IT WORKS

BambooHR in three steps.

01Your users connect BambooHRThey sign in to BambooHR on Arc0 Connect, under your brand, and approve the access you ask for.
02You set the rulesReads run, and writes like “create File Category” can wait for the user to approve.
03Any agent can actYour agent calls BambooHR through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.

POLICY.TS

await arc0.policies.set('bamboohr', {
  read: 'allow',
  write: 'ask',        // create_file_category
  destructive: 'deny',  
})

# Claude Code: the same connection, one URL
$ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \
    https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2

04 · AUTH AND DATA

How BambooHR connects.

Users sign in to BambooHR on Arc0 Connect and approve the scopes you request. Build with Arc0’s BambooHR OAuth app, or bring your own so the BambooHR consent screen names you. Tokens refresh automatically, and you can export them whenever you want.

The same BambooHR connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →

AUTH: API key · OAuth 2.0
CREDENTIALS: Per-tenant encrypted vault
MODEL SEES: Results only, never credentials
AUDIT LOG: Every call, on every plan

05 · WORKS WITH

Use BambooHR from any agent.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Codex

VS Code

OpenAI Agents SDK

Claude Agent SDK

Vercel AI SDK

Mastra

LangGraph

06 · RELATED

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07 · FAQ

BambooHR and Arc0, answered.

Q01

Can I use BambooHR with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect BambooHR to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the BambooHR actions you allow.

Q02

How do users connect BambooHR?

Q03

Which BambooHR actions can my agent take?

42 in total: 19 read, 23 write and 0 destructive, such as “create File Category”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.

Q04

Can I make my agent read-only in BambooHR?

Yes. Allow read actions and deny writes in the BambooHR policy. Your agent can still look things up, and any write it attempts is blocked and logged.

Q05

Can my own backend call BambooHR too?

Yes. The same BambooHR connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.

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Plug BambooHR into your agent.

Your users connect BambooHR once, under your brand. Your agent gets 42 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.

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Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan