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54 Agent Actions

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

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Authentication

Agent Tool Authentication

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

Agent Auth →

Security

Agent Protection

Every Namely 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 Namely call.

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What is the Namely MCP Server?

A Namely MCP server lets AI agents read and write Namely data through the Model Context Protocol — Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. StackOne's Namely MCP server ships with 54 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 Namely MCP Tools

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

Folders

  • Create Folder

    Create a company resource folder.

  • Update Folder

    Update a company resource folder.

  • Delete Folder

    Delete a company resource folder.

A Profile Fields

  • Create A Profile Field

    Create a new profile field in a section.

  • Get A Profile Field

    Get a single profile field by its ID.

  • Update A Profile Field

    Update an existing profile field.

A Profile Field Sections

  • Get A Profile Field Section

    Get a single profile field section by its ID.

  • Update A Profile Field Section

    Update the title of a profile field section.

An Announcements

  • Create An Announcement

    Create an announcement on the Home Feed.

  • Delete An Announcement

    Delete a Home Feed announcement.

An Event's Comments

  • Create An Event's Comment

    Post a comment on a Home Feed event.

  • Get An Event's Comments

    Get the comments on a Home Feed event.

  • Delete An Event's Comment

    Delete a comment from a Home Feed event.

An Event's Likes

  • Create An Event's Like

    Like a Home Feed event.

  • Get An Event's Likes

    Get the profiles that liked a Home Feed event.

  • Delete An Event's Like

    Remove the authenticated profile's like from a Home Feed event.

An Event's Comment's Likes

  • Create An Event's Comment's Like

    Like a comment on a Home Feed event.

  • Get An Event's Comment's Likes

    Get the profiles that liked a comment on a Home Feed event.

  • Delete An Event's Comment's Like

    Remove the authenticated profile's like from a comment on a Home Feed event.

A Job Tiers

  • Create A Job Tier

    Create a new job tier.

  • Get A Job Tier

    Get details of a single job tier by its ID.

  • Update A Job Tier

    Update the label of a job tier.

A Job Titles

  • Create A Job Title

    Create a new job title within a job tier.

  • Get A Job Title

    Get details of a single job title by its ID.

  • Update A Job Title

    Update a job title.

A Profiles

  • Create A Profile

    Create a new employee profile.

  • Get A Profile

    Get a single employee profile by its ID.

  • Update A Profile

    Update information about an existing employee profile.

Other (26)

  • Get Resources Not In A Folder

    Get the company resources that are not in a folder.

  • Get A Resource

    Get a single company resource by its ID.

  • Get All Folders

    Get a list of company resource folders.

  • Get Resources In A Folder

    Get the company resources that belong to a folder.

  • Get All Profile Fields

    Get a list of API-transferable profile fields defined at your company.

  • Get All Profile Field Sections

    Get a list of profile field sections at your company.

  • Get All Group Types

    Get a list of group types at your company.

  • Get A Group Type

    Get details of a single group type by its ID.

  • Get Groups From Group Type

    Get the groups that belong to a given group type.

  • Get All Groups

    Get a list of groups at your company.

  • Get A Group

    Get details of a single group by its ID.

  • Get All Teams

    Get a list of teams at your company.

  • Get A Team

    Get details of a single team by its ID.

  • Get All Events

    Get a list of Home Feed events (announcements, birthdays, anniversaries, new arrivals).

  • Get An Event

    Get details of a single Home Feed event, including its comments.

  • Get All Job Tiers

    Get a list of job tiers at your company.

  • Get All Job Titles

    Get a list of job titles at your company.

  • Get All Notifications

    Get the notifications for the authenticated user.

  • Get A Profile's Notifications

    Get the notifications for a specific profile.

  • Get All Profiles

    Get a paginated list of employee profiles at your company, with optional filtering and sorting.

  • Get Current User's Profile

    Get the profile of the currently authenticated user.

  • Get A Report

    Get a saved Namely report by its ID.

  • Get All Countries

    Get the list of valid countries in Namely.

  • Get A Country

    Get details for a particular country.

  • Delete Resource

    Delete a resource from a folder.

  • Company Info

    Get information about your company in Namely.

Namely AI Agent Use Cases

Connect your AI agent to Namely 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 Namely MCP Server in Minutes

One endpoint. Any framework. Your agent is talking to Namely 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Namely MCP Server FAQ

Does StackOne have a Namely MCP server?
Yes. StackOne offers a hosted Namely MCP server with 54 pre-built actions, 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.
Namely MCP server vs direct API integration — what's the difference?
A Namely MCP server and direct API integration serve different use cases. Direct API integration is for software-to-software — backend code calling Namely. A Namely 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 Namely at runtime. StackOne provides both.
How does Namely authentication work for AI agents?
Namely 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 Namely account; StackOne handles token exchange, storage, and refresh. Credentials never reach the LLM, and each user is isolated via origin_owner_id.
Are Namely MCP tools vulnerable to prompt injection?
Yes — Namely 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 Namely agent and how do I avoid it?
Context bloat happens when Namely tool schemas and API responses eat your Namely agent's memory, preventing it from reasoning effectively. A single Namely 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 Namely agent can access?
Yes — you can limit which actions your Namely 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 Namely MCP server?
Yes — you can create custom agent actions for your Namely MCP server using Connector Builder. It's an integration agent your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot) can invoke to research Namely's API, generate production-ready connector YAML, test against the live API, and validate before you ship.
When should I NOT use a Namely MCP server?
Skip a Namely MCP server if your integration is purely software-to-software — direct Namely 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 Namely actions at runtime.
What AI frameworks and AI clients does the StackOne Namely MCP server support?
The StackOne Namely 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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