--- title: "Personio MCP server · Connect AI agents to Personio HR" description: "Connect inference.eu agents to the official Personio MCP server. Read employee, absence and compensation data and request time off, within each user's rights." canonical: "https://inference.eu/connect/personio/" language: "en" --- MCP servers · HR and payroll # Personio MCP server: connect AI agents to Personio from the EU Personio runs its own MCP server, currently in open beta. It lets an AI agent read HR data and start a small set of Personio workflows, always with the permissions of the employee who signed in. inference.eu agents connect to it with OAuth, so HR teams can answer questions and prepare reports without exporting spreadsheets. [Contact sales](https://inference.eu/contact/)[What agents can do with it](#tools) 1. 01Authentication: OAuth 2. 02Official server 3. 03EU data centres ## What agents can do with it - 1 ### Employee and employment data Read employee profiles and employment details for ad hoc analysis, such as headcount by office, and flag profiles with missing or invalid fields before payroll. - 2 ### Time off balances and requests Look up absence history and balances for yourself or your reports, and request time off on behalf of the signed-in employee. The request then goes through Personio's normal approval. - 3 ### Compensation and performance Retrieve compensation entries and performance feedback or review results, for people the user is allowed to see, to support salary reviews and calibration. ## What Personio and its MCP server are Personio is a Munich-based HR platform for small and mid-sized companies, covering employee records, absences, payroll preparation, recruiting and performance. It offers an official MCP server at `https://app.personio.com/mcp`, in open beta for customers on the Core Pro plan. The server is disabled by default. An administrator turns it on, decides whether write actions are allowed at all, switches individual tools on or off, and can hide employee attributes such as address or IBAN from every connected AI tool. ## What agents can do with Personio An HR business partner can ask an agent for a list of employees in the London office who lack a phone number, then draft a reminder for each of them. A team lead can get an overview of past leave and remaining balances for direct reports before approving holidays. Payroll and HR operations can combine compensation data with other sources, for example to find who has had no salary change in twelve months ahead of a review round. Employees can simply ask the agent to request next Friday off. ## Setup and authentication An administrator first enables Personio MCP under AI features and chooses which tools and attributes to allow. Then you add the Personio connector to an agent on inference.eu and sign in with your Personio account through OAuth. Personio only accepts AI clients it knows about. For a client that is not on its list, Personio asks for the client's metadata document or fixed redirect URLs, so check this with your Personio contact before rollout. The token is stored encrypted in the EU and only reaches the agents you allow. ## Data protection and where the data goes HR data is among the most sensitive data a company holds. With this connector, the agent requests data from Personio's own server, so it leaves Personio only as an answer to that request, as it would for any other AI client. Personio states that once data reaches the AI tool, your agreement with that tool's provider applies. On inference.eu, the model that reads the answers runs in EU data centres and your connection credentials are stored encrypted in the EU. Hide attributes you never want an agent to see directly in Personio. ## Approvals and safe use The server can only see and do what the signed-in employee is already allowed to in Personio, so permissions stay with your existing roles. Write access is a separate opt-in, and Personio recommends requiring approval for writes and for sensitive reads such as compensation. On inference.eu you can make a person approve these calls before they run. A sensible setup lets an agent read absences freely, asks for approval before it reads salaries or requests time off, and keeps tools you do not need switched off. ## Personio Vendor Personio SE & Co. KG Vendor based in Germany Category HR and payroll Authentication OAuth Transport Remote (HTTP) Server [Official server](https://support.personio.de/hc/en-us/articles/38314656674333-Personio-MCP-server-Beta-access-overview) Documentation [support.personio.de](https://support.personio.de/hc/en-us/articles/38314656674333-Personio-MCP-server-Beta-access-overview) ## Personio: common questions The questions buyers, developers and legal teams ask us most. Something missing? Ask us directly. Yes. Personio offers its own MCP server at https://app.personio.com/mcp. As of November 2026 it is in open beta for customers on the Core Pro plan, and Personio activates it per account. Core customers can ask their customer success manager for early access. It reads employee profiles, employment details, time off history and balances, compensation and performance feedback, and it can request time off for the signed-in employee. Approving time off is announced as coming soon. Writes are off unless an administrator enables them. No. Every request runs as the employee who signed in, with their Personio permissions. Someone who cannot see salaries in Personio cannot see them through the agent either. Administrators can also hide attributes and turn off individual tools for every client. An administrator enables Personio MCP and picks the allowed tools. You then add the Personio connector to an agent and sign in through OAuth. Because Personio approves AI clients individually, confirm with Personio that the client is registered before rolling it out. Yes, if write access is enabled. The agent creates a time off request for the signed-in employee, and Personio then triggers its usual approval process. We recommend requiring a person's confirmation in inference.eu before the request is sent. No. Personio describes the MCP server as a conversational layer for people working with AI tools. For scheduled integrations, such as syncing employees into another system, it recommends the Personio public API instead. Large queries are paginated and rate limits apply. It goes from Personio's server to the agent as a response to each tool call. On inference.eu the model processes it in EU data centres. Personio handles the data under its data processing addendum, and you decide which attributes it may share. Yes. Several open-source servers wrap the Personio API with client credentials, covering recruiting, attendances and documents. They are not affiliated with Personio. The official server is usually the better choice because it respects each user's permissions and Personio's admin controls. [Ask a question](https://inference.eu/contact/) ## Related [All MCP servers](https://inference.eu/connect/#directory) - [DATEVConnect inference.eu agents to DATEV through an MCP server. 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