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Summary
Read Kenjo HR data: employees with names, job titles and reporting lines, companies, offices, departments and teams, time-off requests and types, attendance entries and recruiting positions. Read-only, through the Kenjo API v1.
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Kenjo HR + ChatGPT
Read Kenjo HR data: employees with names, job titles and reporting lines, companies, offices, departments and teams, time-off requests and types, attendance entries and recruiting positions. Read-only, through the Kenjo API v1.
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:
KENJO_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
- API access is off by default: ask Kenjo support to have Customer Success enable it for your account.
- An admin opens Settings → Integrations → API and clicks Generate new API key. Copy the key at once, as Kenjo shows it only once (up to 5 keys per organisation).
- Employee data is always included; switch on attendance, time off and recruiting for the key if you want those tools. Put the key in
KENJO_API_KEY. - Start with
kenjo_list_employeesto find a person's_id, thenkenjo_get_employee. Turn ids into names withkenjo_list_companies,kenjo_list_offices,kenjo_list_departmentsandkenjo_list_teams.
The connector exchanges the key for a bearer token at POST /auth/login and renews it by itself; editing, regenerating or deleting the key in Kenjo invalidates its tokens. It calls the production API api.kenjo.io, so a sandbox key does not work. Nothing is written to Kenjo, and the financial section (bank and tax ids) is removed from employee records. Time-off requests take a range of at most 92 days, attendances at most 31; a 403 on those tools means the collection is not enabled for the key.
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 ChatGPT
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.
ChatGPT adds MCP servers as plugins on its Plugins page, on the web and on paid plans. Developer mode is no longer needed. In a Business workspace only admins and owners can add one; in Enterprise and Edu an admin can grant the Create plugins with MCPs permission.
- Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click Add, then Add custom MCP server.
- Enter a name, e.g. Name:
Kenjo HR. - Under Connection, enter the Server URL
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_IDand keep Authentication on OAuth. - Select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin. When ChatGPT asks, sign in to AnythingMCP and allow access.
- Install the new plugin from your personal plugins, then type @ in a chat and pick it.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
kenjo_list_employees | List all Kenjo employees with their _id, e-mail, first and last name, display name, job title, active status and company, office and… |
kenjo_get_employee | Get every section of one Kenjo employee: account (e-mail, active), personal (name, birthdate, nationality), work (job title, start date… |
kenjo_list_employee_accounts | List Kenjo employee accounts (_id, e-mail, external id, language, active status) |
kenjo_list_employee_work_details | List the work section of every employee: job title, start date, employee number, company, office, department, area and team ids, manager… |
kenjo_list_companies | List the companies (legal entities) set up in Kenjo with _id, name, city and country |
kenjo_list_departments | List the departments set up in Kenjo with _id and name |
kenjo_list_offices | List the office locations in Kenjo with _id, name, company id, holiday calendar id, street, postal code, city and country |
kenjo_list_teams | List the teams set up in Kenjo with _id and name |
kenjo_list_time_off_types | List the time-off types of the organisation (vacation, sick leave and so on) with _id and name |
kenjo_list_time_off_requests | List time-off requests in a date range of at most 92 days, with employee id, type id, policy, status, from/to, duration and per-day split |
kenjo_list_attendances | List attendance (worked time) entries of all employees in a date range of at most 31 days: employee id and e-mail, start and end time… |
kenjo_list_positions | List recruiting positions (job openings) with _id, job title, company, office and department ids, position type, status and job description |
FAQ
Does the free ChatGPT plan work with custom MCP servers? OpenAI documents custom MCP servers for paid plans only; the Free plan is not on its list.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
- Connect to Microsoft Copilot
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