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How to Connect Kenjo HR to Microsoft Copilot — via MCP

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

Kenjo HR

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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Authentication

Sign-in token

Required env vars

KENJO_API_KEY
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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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Example prompts for Kenjo HR

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Kenjo HR + Microsoft Copilot

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

  1. API access is off by default: ask Kenjo support to have Customer Success enable it for your account.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. Start with kenjo_list_employees to find a person's _id, then kenjo_get_employee. Turn ids into names with kenjo_list_companies, kenjo_list_offices, kenjo_list_departments and kenjo_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 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 shows YOUR_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.

  1. In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
  2. Enter a Server name (for example AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server.
  3. Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to X-API-Key, then select Create.
  4. 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.
  5. Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the Kenjo HR tools.
  6. 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

ToolWhat it does
kenjo_list_employeesList all Kenjo employees with their _id, e-mail, first and last name, display name, job title, active status and company, office and…
kenjo_get_employeeGet every section of one Kenjo employee: account (e-mail, active), personal (name, birthdate, nationality), work (job title, start date…
kenjo_list_employee_accountsList Kenjo employee accounts (_id, e-mail, external id, language, active status)
kenjo_list_employee_work_detailsList the work section of every employee: job title, start date, employee number, company, office, department, area and team ids, manager…
kenjo_list_companiesList the companies (legal entities) set up in Kenjo with _id, name, city and country
kenjo_list_departmentsList the departments set up in Kenjo with _id and name
kenjo_list_officesList the office locations in Kenjo with _id, name, company id, holiday calendar id, street, postal code, city and country
kenjo_list_teamsList the teams set up in Kenjo with _id and name
kenjo_list_time_off_typesList the time-off types of the organisation (vacation, sick leave and so on) with _id and name
kenjo_list_time_off_requestsList 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_attendancesList 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_positionsList recruiting positions (job openings) with _id, job title, company, office and department ids, position type, status and job description

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.

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