Personio ACTION
Create Employee
Creates a new employee. See the documentation
- Action
- Writes data
- OAuth
- SDK
- MCP
IMPLEMENTATION
Call this tool
Connect a user's Personio account once, then configure and run Create Employee from your backend or agent.
import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"
const pd = new PipedreamClient({
projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
projectEnvironment: "production",
})
const result = await pd.actions.run({
id: "personio-create-employee",
externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
configuredProps: {
personio: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
email: "Email",
firstName: "First Name",
},
})
console.log(result)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "personio-create-employee",
"configured_props": {
"personio": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" },
"email": "Email",
"firstName": "First Name"
}
}'// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
{
requestInit: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
"x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
"x-pd-environment": "production",
"x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
"x-pd-app-slug": "personio",
},
},
},
)
const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)
const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "personio-create-employee",
arguments: {
email: "Email",
firstName: "First Name",
},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
email Email | string | The e-mail field is required for the employee creation. Updating of this field is not currently supported. Required |
firstName First Name | string | The first name of the employee. Required |
lastName Last Name | string | The last name of the employee. Required |
gender Gender | string | The gender of the employee. Optional |
position Position | string | The position of the employee. E.g. developer. Optional |
subcompany Subcompany | string | The subcompany employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response. Optional |
department Department | string | The department employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response. Optional |
office Office | string | The office employee belongs to. Should be predefined in Personio. Otherwise will be ignored with showing meta error in the response. Optional |
hireDate Hire Date | string | Employee hire date. Format: "yyyy-mm-dd". If status is not provided, it will be set to active if the hire date is in the past, or to onboarding if it's in the future. Optional |
weeklyWorkingHours Weekly Working Hours | integer | All hours usually worked, including regular overtime. Optional |
status Status | string | Status of the employee. Overrides the status determined based on the value of hire_date. Optional |
supervisorId Supervisor Id | string | Employee ID of the Supervisor to be assigned. It needs to belong to a current existing employee, otherwise an error will be returned. If not present, no supervisor will be assigned. Optional Dynamic |
customAttributes Custom Attributes | object | Additional attributes to the employee. Optional |
REFERENCE
Tool details
Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.
- Registry key
- personio-create-employee
- Version
- 0.0.2
- App
- Personio
- Authentication
- OAuth
- Read-only
- No
- Destructive
- No
- Open world
- Yes
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗