HR Assist (MCP Server)

Agentic HR assistant that exposes employee, leave, meeting, ticket, and email tools over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Designed to automate onboarding workflows via an MCP client such as Claude Desktop.

Sample employees & managers

Use these when creating a new employee (manager_id can be ID or name):

Other sample staff: Tony Sharma (E004), James Rodriguez (E005), Carlos Mendez (E007), Lisa Wong (E008), Aisha Khan (E010), Rohan Mehta (E011), Neha Kapoor (E012).

Examples:

add_employee("Riya Shah", manager_id="E001", email="riya.shah@atliq.com")
add_employee("Riya Shah", manager_id="Sarah Johnson")
add_employee("Riya Shah")   # defaults manager to E001

Call list_managers or list_employees tools to see the full directory.

Related MCP server: HR-ASSIST

Features

• Add / look up employees

• Leave balance, apply leave, leave history

• Schedule / list / cancel meetings

• Create and manage IT/HR tickets

• Optional Gmail sending for welcome / manager notifications

• Built-in onboarding prompt: onboard_new_employee

Setup

1. Install uv (recommended) or use pip.

2. From this directory:

   uv sync

   Or with pip:

   python -m venv .venv
   .venv\Scripts\activate
   pip install -e .

3. Copy env values:

   copy sample.env .env

   Optional (for real email):

   CB_EMAIL=your@gmail.com
   CB_EMAIL_PWD=your_gmail_app_password

   Leave blank to run without email (send_email will skip and report what it would send).

Run Streamlit web app (recommended UI)

uv sync
uv run streamlit run streamlit_app.py

Opens at http://localhost:8501 with tabs for Directory, Onboard, Leave, Tickets, Meetings, Email, and Lookup.

Email setup (Send email tab)

Local .env:

CB_EMAIL=yourgmail@gmail.com
CB_EMAIL_PWD=your_16_char_app_password

Streamlit Cloud → Settings → Secrets:

CB_EMAIL = "yourgmail@gmail.com"
CB_EMAIL_PWD = "your_16_char_app_password"

Use a Gmail App Password (not your normal password).

Deploy to Streamlit Community Cloud

1. Push this folder to a GitHub repo (include streamlit_app.py and requirements.txt).

2. Go to share.streamlit.io → New app.

3. Select the repo, set Main file path to streamlit_app.py.

4. Deploy. You’ll get a public URL like https://your-app.streamlit.app.

Run locally (CLI demo, no UI)

uv run python run_local.py

This seeds dummy HR data and runs an onboarding-style flow through the same managers used by the MCP tools.

Run MCP server

uv run python server.py

stdio transport waits for an MCP client. To inspect tools interactively:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run python server.py

Claude Desktop config example

Edit Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json and point command / --directory at this project folder:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hr-assist": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "C:\\Users\\omkar\\Documents\\Project\\AI\\HR Assist (MCP Server)",
        "run",
        "python",
        "server.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CB_EMAIL": "YOUR_EMAIL",
        "CB_EMAIL_PWD": "YOUR_APP_PASSWORD"
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage

In Claude Desktop, use the onboard_new_employee prompt or ask naturally, for example:

• Onboard a new employee named Riya reporting to Sarah Johnson

• What is Tony Sharma's leave balance?

• Create a laptop ticket for E009

Project layout

server.py          MCP tools + onboarding prompt
run_local.py       Local demo without MCP client
emails.py          SMTP helper
utils.py           Dummy data seeder
hrms/              Employee, leave, meeting, ticket managers + schemas