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Summary

Pinpoint applicant tracking (ATS): jobs, job postings, hiring workflows and stages, applications, candidates, interviews, comments, scorecards, requisitions, users and company structure. JSON:API v1 on your company's pinpointhq.com subdomain, X-API-KEY header.

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Pinpoint + Microsoft Copilot

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:

PINPOINT_SUBDOMAIN, PINPOINT_API_KEY

Step 1 — Get credentials

The connector reads Pinpoint's JSON:API v1 on your company's own subdomain with an API key. Two write tools add internal comments and move applications between stages.

Set PINPOINT_SUBDOMAIN to the part before .pinpointhq.com in the address you sign in at: for acme.pinpointhq.com enter acme.
A Pinpoint administrator opens Settings > API & Webhooks and switches on the Pinpoint API toggle. Without it no key can be created and calls answer 403.
On the API Keys tab, create a key and paste it into PINPOINT_API_KEY. Pinpoint recommends a separate read-only key for AI tools; pinpoint_add_comment and pinpoint_move_application_stage need a key with write access.
Start with pinpoint_list_jobs (status open), then pinpoint_list_applications with job_id, and pinpoint_get_application with include=candidate,stage for the details.

Things to know:

Answers follow JSON:API: records are in data[], related records requested with include are in included[]. Ids are strings.
page starts at 1 and page_size defaults to 100 (max 1000). Confidential jobs are hidden from pinpoint_list_jobs unless visibility names confidential.
The limits are 120 requests per IP per minute and 240 per 8 minutes; above that Pinpoint answers 429 with Retry-After. One filtered list call with include is better than many single fetches.
Moving an application can trigger the automatic e-mails configured on the target stage. Comments are visible to the hiring team, not to the candidate.

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.

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 URL https://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 Pinpoint tools.
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
`pinpoint_list_jobs`	List jobs (vacancies) with title, status, visibility, employment type, workplace type and dates
`pinpoint_get_job`	Return one job by id with its attributes; use include to embed the hiring stages, job postings, questions, managers, department and location
`pinpoint_list_applications`	List applications (a candidate applying to a job) with stage, status dates, source and contact details
`pinpoint_get_application`	Return one application by id; include=stage,candidate,job,answers,offers,comments embeds the current stage, the candidate, the job…
`pinpoint_list_candidates`	List candidates (people, across all their applications) with name, e-mail, phone and timestamps
`pinpoint_get_candidate`	Return one candidate by id with contact details; include=applications lists every application of this person
`pinpoint_list_comments`	List comments (internal notes) with text, author and date
`pinpoint_list_interviews`	List scheduled interviews with start and end time, attendance (attended, no_show) and the stage
`pinpoint_get_interview`	Return one interview by id with its times, attendance and, with include, the stage, the interview parts and the application interviewed
`pinpoint_list_hiring_workflows`	List hiring workflows (the stage pipelines jobs use). include defaults to stages, so each workflow comes with its ordered stages and their…
`pinpoint_list_job_postings`	List job postings (the adverts of a job on the careers site and job boards) with title, status, employment and workplace type
`pinpoint_list_departments`	List the company's departments with id and name
`pinpoint_list_divisions`	List the company's divisions with id and name, the level above departments in Pinpoint's company structure
`pinpoint_list_locations`	List the company's locations with id, name and address
`pinpoint_list_users`	List Pinpoint users (recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers) with name, e-mail and role
`pinpoint_list_scorecards`	List the interview scorecard templates with their sections and the stages they apply to (use include)
`pinpoint_list_requisitions`	List job requisitions (approved requests to hire) with identifier, status and dates
`pinpoint_add_comment`	Add an internal comment (note) to an application, a candidate or a job seeker
`pinpoint_move_application_stage`	Move an application to another stage of its hiring workflow, e.g. from review to interview

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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Example prompts for Pinpoint

Pinpoint + Microsoft Copilot

Prerequisites

Step 1 — Get credentials

Step 2 — Install the adapter

Step 3 — Add the connector in Microsoft Copilot

Available tools

FAQ

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