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Summary
Manage BambooHR (employees, time-off, custom reports, fields, files) from any AI agent. 9 tools, basic-auth.
Try asking
Example prompts for BambooHR
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → BambooHR, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no
git clone, no local server.
BambooHR + Microsoft Copilot
Manage BambooHR (employees, time-off, custom reports, fields, files) from any AI agent. 9 tools, basic-auth.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
BAMBOOHR_SUBDOMAIN, BAMBOOHR_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
This connector wraps the BambooHR REST API v1 (per-subdomain — api.bamboohr.com/api/gateway.php/<subdomain>/v1).
Setup:
- Sign in to your BambooHR portal → top-right avatar → API Keys → Add a new key.
- Note your subdomain (the part before
.bamboohr.com) and copy the key. - Set
BAMBOOHR_SUBDOMAINandBAMBOOHR_API_KEY.
Authentication: HTTP Basic — API key as username, literal x as password.
Path subdomain: BambooHR's API embeds the subdomain in the URL path. The adapter substitutes via runtime envVar.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Microsoft Copilot
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.
- In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
- Enter a Server name (for example
AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server. - Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to
X-API-Key, then select Create. - In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
- Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the
BambooHRtools. - Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.
Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.
Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
bamboohr_list_employees_directory | Returns the company directory: every employee's id, displayName, jobTitle, workEmail, department, division, location, supervisor |
bamboohr_get_employee | Get one employee by ID |
bamboohr_add_employee | Create a new employee |
bamboohr_update_employee | Update employee fields |
bamboohr_who_is_out | Returns the company-wide who's-out list for a date range |
bamboohr_list_time_off_requests | List time-off requests |
bamboohr_list_meta_fields | List every field defined in this account (built-in + custom) |
bamboohr_run_custom_report | Run a pre-defined custom report by its numeric ID |
bamboohr_get_employee_files | List files in an employee's record categorized by section |
FAQ
Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.
What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.
The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to ChatGPT
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
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