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StackOne's Employment Hero MCP server gives AI agents 51 ready-to-use actions for Employment Hero — with built-in authentication, security, governance, token efficiency, and high tool-calling accuracy.

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51 Agent Actions

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

MCP Actions → Create Actions →

Authentication

Agent Tool Authentication

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

Agent Auth →

Security

Agent Protection

Every Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero call.

Tools Discovery →

What is the Employment Hero MCP Server?

A Employment Hero MCP server lets AI agents read and write Employment Hero data through the Model Context Protocol — Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. StackOne's Employment Hero MCP server ships with 51 pre-built actions, fully extensible via the Connector Builder — plus managed authentication, prompt injection defense, and optimized agent context. 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 Employment Hero MCP Tools and Actions

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

Organisations

  • List Organisations

    List all organisations accessible to the authenticated user

  • Get Organisation

    Get details of a specific organisation

Work Sites

  • Create Work Site

    Create a new work site in the organisation

  • List Work Sites

    List all work sites for an organisation

Employees

  • List Employees

    List all employees for an organisation

  • Get Employee

    Get a specific employee by ID

Departments

  • Create Department

    Create a new department in the organisation

  • Update Department

    Update an existing department

Leave Requests

  • Get Leave Requests

    Get all leave requests for an organisation

  • Get Leave Request

    Get a specific leave request by ID

Rostered Shifts

  • List Rostered Shifts

    List rostered shifts for an organisation

  • Get Rostered Shift

    Get a specific rostered shift by ID

Certifications

  • Create Certification

    Create a new certification in the organisation

  • List Certifications

    List all certifications for an organisation

  • Get Certification

    Get a specific certification by ID

  • Update Certification

    Update an existing certification

  • Delete Certification

    Delete a certification from the organisation

Employee Documents

  • Upload Employee Document

    Upload a document for an employee

  • List Employee Documents

    List all documents for an employee

Forms

  • List Forms

    List all forms for an organisation

  • Get Form

    Get a specific form by ID

Form Responses

  • List Form Responses

    List all responses for a specific form

  • Get Form Response

    Get a specific form response by ID

Other (28)

  • Upload Certification Files

    Upload attachment files for certifications

  • List Employing Entities

    List all employing entities for an organisation

  • List Work Locations

    List all work locations for an organisation

  • List Employee Emergency Contacts

    List emergency contacts for an employee

  • List Employee Employment Histories

    List employment history records for an employee

  • List Employee Custom Fields

    List custom field values for an employee

  • List Contractor Job Histories

    List job history records for a contractor

  • Get Onboarding Polling Status

    Check the status of an async employee onboarding operation

  • List Teams

    List all teams for an organisation

  • List Team Employees

    List all employees in a specific team

  • List Leave Categories

    List leave categories for an organisation

  • List Timesheet Entries

    List timesheet entries for an employee

  • List Unavailabilities

    List unavailability records for an organisation

  • Get Unavailability

    Get a specific unavailability record by ID

  • List Employee Certifications

    List all certifications assigned to an employee

  • Get Certification Polling Status

    Check the status of an async certification operation

  • List Employee Bank Accounts

    List bank accounts for an employee

  • List Employee Pay Details

    List pay details for an employee

  • List Employee Payslips

    List payslips for an employee

  • Get Employee Superannuation

    Get superannuation details for an employee

  • Get Employee Tax Declaration

    Get tax declaration details for an employee

  • List Custom Fields

    List all custom fields for an organisation

  • List Policies

    List all policies for an organisation

  • List Cost Centres

    List all cost centres for an organisation

  • Quick Add Employee

    Quickly add a new employee to the organisation

  • Quick Add Contractor

    Quickly add a new contractor to the organisation

  • Onboard Employee

    Comprehensive employee onboarding with full details

  • Archive Certification

    Archive or unarchive a certification

Employment Hero AI Agent Use Cases

Connect your AI agent to Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero MCP Server in Minutes

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

MCP Clients

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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Employment Hero MCP Server 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

Employment Hero MCP Server FAQ

Employment Hero MCP server vs direct API integration — what's the difference?
A Employment Hero MCP server and direct API integration serve different use cases. Direct API integration is for software-to-software — backend code calling Employment Hero. A Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero at runtime. StackOne provides both.
How does Employment Hero authentication work for AI agents?
Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero account; StackOne handles token exchange, storage, and refresh. Credentials never reach the LLM, and each user is isolated via origin_owner_id.
Are Employment Hero MCP tools vulnerable to prompt injection?
Yes — Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero agent and how do I avoid it?
Context bloat happens when Employment Hero tool schemas and API responses eat your Employment Hero agent's memory, preventing it from reasoning effectively. A single Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero agent can access?
Yes — you can limit which actions your Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero MCP server?
Yes — you can create custom agent actions for your Employment Hero MCP server using Connector Builder. It's an integration agent your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot) can invoke to research Employment Hero's API, generate production-ready connector YAML, test against the live API, and validate before you ship.
When should I NOT use a Employment Hero MCP server?
Skip a Employment Hero MCP server if your integration is purely software-to-software — direct Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero actions at runtime.
What AI frameworks and AI clients does the StackOne Employment Hero MCP server support?
The StackOne Employment Hero 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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