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Connect your AI agent to StackOne's Culture Amp MCP server and give it ready-to-use MCP tools out of the box. Auth, tool execution, and security all managed.

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9 Agent Actions

Create, read, update, and delete across Culture Amp — and extend your agent's capabilities with custom actions.

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Authentication

Agent Tool Authentication

Per-user OAuth in one call. Your Culture Amp MCP server gets session-scoped tokens with zero credentials stored on your infra.

Agent Auth →

Security

Agent Protection

Every Culture Amp tool response scanned for prompt injection in milliseconds — 88.7% accuracy, all running on CPU.

Prompt Injection Defense →

Performance

Max Agent Context. Min Cost.

Free up to 96% of your agent's context window to enhance reasoning and reduce cost, on every Culture Amp call.

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What is the Culture Amp MCP Server?

A Culture Amp MCP server lets AI agents read and write Culture Amp data through the Model Context Protocol — Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. StackOne's Culture Amp MCP server ships with pre-built actions, fully extensible via the Connector Builder — plus managed authentication, prompt injection defense, observability, and agent execution runtime. Connect it from MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Goose, and VS Code, or from agent frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, and Vercel AI SDK.

All Culture Amp MCP Tools

Every action from Culture Amp's API, ready for your agent. Create, read, update, and delete — scoped to exactly what you need.

Employees

  • List Employees

    Get a list of all employees in the Culture Amp account, optionally filtered by email or employee identifier.

  • Get Employee

    Get the details of a single employee by their Culture Amp employee identifier.

Demographics By Employees

  • List Demographics By Employee

    Get the demographic assignments (name/value attributes) for a given employee.

Performance Cycles

  • List Performance Cycles

    Get a list of all performance cycles in the Culture Amp account, optionally filtered by state or processing date.

  • Get Performance Cycle

    Get the details of a single performance cycle by its id.

Manager Reviews

  • List Manager Reviews

    Get a list of all manager (performance) reviews in the Culture Amp account.

  • Get Manager Review

    Get the details of a single manager review by its id.

Manager Reviews By Employees

  • List Manager Reviews By Employee

    Get the manager (performance) reviews for a specific employee.

Manager Reviews By Performance Cycles

  • List Manager Reviews By Performance Cycle

    Get the manager (performance) reviews that belong to a specific performance cycle.

Culture Amp AI Agent Use Cases

Connect your AI agent to Culture Amp and help your team scale the HR operations they run by hand today.

Employee Onboarding

Use StackOne to connect your AI agent to your HRIS, identity management, and LMS to automate employee onboarding.

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HR Policy Q&A Chatbot

Use StackOne to connect your AI agent to your HRIS, knowledge base, and messaging tools to automate HR policy Q&A.

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Employee Offboarding

Use StackOne to connect your AI agent to your HRIS, identity management, and ITSM to automate employee offboarding and deprovisioning.

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Set Up Your Culture Amp MCP Server in Minutes

One endpoint. Any framework. Your agent is talking to Culture Amp in under 10 lines of code.

MCP Clients

Claude Desktop setup guide
Claude Code setup guide
Cursor setup guide
Goose setup guide

Agent Frameworks

Claude Desktop
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stackone": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote@latest",
        "https://api.stackone.com/mcp?x-account-id=<account_id>",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Basic <YOUR_BASE64_TOKEN>"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Platform Resources

MCP Code Mode: Keeping Tool Responses Out of Agent Context

Anthropic's code_execution processes data already in context. Custom MCP code mode keeps raw tool responses in a sandbox. 14K tokens vs 500.

11 min

Comparing BM25, TF-IDF, and Hybrid Search for MCP Tool Discovery

Benchmarking BM25, TF-IDF, and hybrid search for MCP tool discovery across 916 tools. The 80/20 TF-IDF/BM25 hybrid hits 21% Top-1 accuracy in under 1ms.

10 min

Indirect Prompt Injection Defense for MCP Tools: A Technical Guide

MCP tools that read emails, CRM records, and tickets are indirect prompt injection vectors. Here's how we built a two-tier defense that scans tool results in ~11ms.

12 min

MCP vs A2A: Architecture, Security, and When to Use Each

MCP vs A2A: what each protocol standardizes, how they differ, their shared security risks including indirect prompt injection, and when to use one, both, or a hybrid architecture.

12 min

MCP vs API: What 200+ Connector Builds Taught Us

MCP wraps APIs, it doesn't replace them. After building 200+ connectors that serve both, here's when each approach wins.

14 min read

Culture Amp MCP Server FAQ

Does StackOne have a Culture Amp MCP server?
Yes. StackOne offers a hosted Culture Amp MCP server, and every action is tested and QA'd by StackOne. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, and any other MCP client, or to any agent framework through the AI Action SDK. It ships with managed agent authentication, prompt injection defense, and tool discovery with server-side execution that preserve your agent's context window and keep reasoning performance.
Culture Amp MCP server vs direct API integration — what's the difference?
A Culture Amp MCP server and direct API integration serve different use cases. Direct API integration is for software-to-software — backend code calling Culture Amp. A Culture Amp MCP server is for AI agents — MCP clients like Claude and Cursor, plus framework agents built with OpenAI, LangChain, or Vercel AI — discovering and calling Culture Amp at runtime. StackOne provides both.
How does Culture Amp authentication work for AI agents?
Culture Amp authentication for AI agents works through a StackOne Connect Session. Create one via the dashboard or the SDK — you get an auth link and ready-to-paste config for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP clients. Your user authenticates their own Culture Amp account; StackOne handles token exchange, storage, and refresh. Credentials never reach the LLM, and each user is isolated via origin_owner_id.
Are Culture Amp MCP tools vulnerable to prompt injection?
Yes — Culture Amp MCP tools can be vulnerable to indirect prompt injection. Any tool that reads user-written content — documents, messages, tickets, records, or free-text fields — is a potential vector. StackOne Defender scans every tool response before it enters the agent's context — regex patterns in ~1ms, then a MiniLM classifier in ~4ms. 88.7% accuracy, CPU-only.
What is the context bloat of a Culture Amp agent and how do I avoid it?
Context bloat happens when Culture Amp tool schemas and API responses eat your Culture Amp agent's memory, preventing it from reasoning effectively. A single Culture Amp query can return a massive JSON response, and connecting multiple tools compounds the problem. Tools Discovery and Code Mode reduce context bloat — loading only relevant tools per query and keeping raw responses out of the agent's context.
Can I limit which actions my Culture Amp agent can access?
Yes — you can limit which actions your Culture Amp agent can access directly from the StackOne dashboard. Toggle actions on or off, or restrict them to specific accounts, with no code changes to your agent. Session tokens can be scoped to exact actions so if one leaks, exposure stays contained.
Can I create custom agent actions for my Culture Amp MCP server?
Yes — you can create custom agent actions for your Culture Amp MCP server using Connector Builder. It's an integration agent your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot) can invoke to research Culture Amp's API, generate production-ready connector YAML, test against the live API, and validate before you ship.
When should I NOT use a Culture Amp MCP server?
Skip a Culture Amp MCP server if your integration is purely software-to-software — direct Culture Amp API integration is simpler when no AI agent is involved. For deterministic, compliance-critical operations (financial transactions, regulatory reporting), direct API gives you predictable behavior without agent-driven decision-making. MCP shines when AI agents need to dynamically discover and call Culture Amp actions at runtime.
What AI frameworks and AI clients does the StackOne Culture Amp MCP server support?
The StackOne Culture Amp MCP server supports both. MCP clients (paste-and-go apps): Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Goose. Agent frameworks (code SDKs you build with): OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic, Vercel AI, Google ADK, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, LangChain, LangGraph, Azure AI Foundry.

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