Workable MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Workable MCP or direct API to post jobs, manage candidates, update employee records, and automate HR workflows through natural language.

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Workable is an all-in-one HR software platform that streamlines hiring, employee management, and payroll. It helps teams simplify recruiting, onboarding, and staff operations in one place.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Workable action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Employee

Tool to create an employee in your Workable account.

Delete Department

Tool to delete a department.

Delete Subscription

Tool to unsubscribe from an event by deleting a webhook subscription.

Get Account

Tool to return the specified account.

Get Accounts

Retrieves all Workable accounts (organizations) accessible to the authenticated user.

Get Background Check Packages

Tool to retrieve a list of available background check packages from a specified provider.

Get Background Check Providers

Retrieves a list of background check providers integrated with your Workable account.

Get Candidates

Retrieve a list of candidates across all jobs in the organization.

Get Employee

Tool to retrieve detailed information for a specific employee by ID.

Get Events

Retrieve a collection of scheduled events (calls, interviews, meetings) from the Workable account.

Get Jobs

Retrieves a paginated list of jobs from your Workable account.

Get Legal Entities

Tool to retrieve a collection of your account legal entities.

Get Members

Retrieve a paginated list of Workable account members with their roles and permissions.

Get recruiters

Retrieves external recruiters from your Workable account.

Get Requisitions

Tool to retrieve a collection of requisitions in the account.

Get Stages

Tool to retrieve a collection of your recruitment pipeline stages.

Get Subscriptions

Retrieves all webhook subscriptions configured in your Workable account.

List Custom Attributes

Tool to retrieve all custom attributes configured in the Workable account.

List Departments

Tool to retrieve all departments from your Workable account.

List Disqualification Reasons

Tool to retrieve a collection of account's disqualification reasons.

List Employee Fields

Tool to retrieve a collection of your account's employee field definitions.

List Employees

Tool to retrieve a collection of account employees.

List Permission Sets

Tool to retrieve a collection of your account permission sets.

List Public Jobs

Tool to return a collection of public jobs for an account.

List Public Locations

Tool to retrieve a collection of locations where a Workable account has public job postings.

List Time Off Balances

Retrieves all time off balances for an employee across all time off categories.

List Time Off Categories

Tool to retrieve all time off categories configured for your account.

List Work Schedules

Tool to retrieve a collection of work schedules configured in your Workable account.

Update Background Check Status

Updates the status and results of an existing background check in a candidate's timeline.

Merge Department

Tool to merge a department into another.

Create Department

Tool to create a department in your account.

Enable Member

Enable (restore) a deactivated Workable account member to active status.

Invite Member

Tool to invite a member to your Workable account.

Update Department

Tool to update an existing department in your account.

Update Member

Updates a Workable account member's details including roles, name, headline, email, and collaboration rules.

Update Employee

Tool to update an existing employee in Workable.

Upload Employee Documents

Tool to upload a list of documents for a specific employee.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Workable MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK and Claude Agent SDK
2

Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

console.log("Creating Tool Router session...");
const { mcp } = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${mcp.url}`);
Initialize the Composio client and create a Tool Router session
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: mcp.url,
    headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key' }
  }
});

const tools = await client.tools();

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'List all candidates for open positions' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs( 5 )
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Workable API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Workable Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'List all active job openings in Workable'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Workable actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Workable Integration

  • Supports both Workable MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Workable data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in OAuth handling with automatic token refresh and rotation
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Workable access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Workable
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Workable resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Workable requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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