Dayforce MCP tools for Claude integration
This article lists the Dayforce MCP tools published for use by Anthropic AI. Tools are organized by domain, such as WFM, HR, and Talent.
Overview
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Read-only: None of the tools creates, changes, or deletes data in Dayforce.
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Signed-in user only: Tools run in the authenticated Dayforce session, so results reflect the signed-in user's permissions and determines what data each tool can return. Tools that return personal data, such as time-off balances and competencies, always use the signed-in user. No tool accepts an employee ID.
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Limited set: Only the tools listed on this page are available on the production server. Calls to any other tool fail.
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Admin control: Organization admins grant or revoke access at the permission-group level, and each tool inherits access from its parent group.
Tool Behavior
Every tool declares the same execution hints so MCP clients can run them without a write-confirmation prompt.
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| The tool does not modify data. |
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| The tool does not delete or overwrite data. |
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| Repeated calls with the same input return the same result and have no extra effect. |
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| The tool only reads from Dayforce, not external systems. |
Tools at a Glance
Tool names follow a domain.module.resource.action taxonomy so related tools can be grouped and discovered.
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| List employee groups | HR |
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| List engagement surveys | Talent |
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| List my competencies | Talent |
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| List balance cascades | WFM balance |
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| List balance conversions | WFM balance |
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| List balance units | WFM balance |
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| List entitlements | WFM entitlement |
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| List entitlement policies | WFM entitlement |
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| Get entitlement rules | WFM entitlement |
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| Get my time-off balances | WFM time away |
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| List company holidays | WFM time away |
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| Get my time-off summary | WFM time away |
HR Tools
Read access to HR organization setup.
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(List employee groups) | Lists the employee groups set up in this Dayforce organization, by name. Employee groups are used to organize employees and scope features and permissions. Use it to answer questions about how the organization is set up. |
Talent Tools
Read access to engagement surveys and the signed-in employee's performance competencies.
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(List engagement surveys) | Lists the engagement surveys whose results are visible to the signed-in user, with each survey's ID, title, survey type, status, and scheduled start and end. List order does not indicate which survey is the most recent. No response counts, thresholds, survey descriptions, client IDs, or employee IDs are returned. |
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| Lists active competencies assigned to the currently authenticated employee. The employee scope comes from the signed-in Dayforce session, and the tool accepts no employee identifier. Each assigned competency is enriched with its localized name, description, category identifier, reference code, effective dates, assignment metadata, rating information, rating-scale identifiers, assignment type, and related review-cycle identifiers. It does not assign or remove competencies. |
WFM Balance Tools
Read access to balance configuration: units, cascades, and conversions. Balance names for these IDs appear as BalanceId/BalanceName on entitlement definitions returned by wfm.entitlement.entitlements.get.
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| Gets all balance cascade configurations in Dayforce. Balance cascades define overflow rules between balances: when one balance is exhausted, time is automatically drawn from the cascaded balance. Returns |
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| Gets all balance conversion configurations in Dayforce. Balance conversions define the conversion rates between two balance units, for example converting days to hours or vice versa. Returns |
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(List balance units) | Gets all balance unit types available in Dayforce. Balance units define the measurement unit for a balance, for example Hours or Days. Returns |
WFM Entitlement Tools
Read access to entitlement definitions, policies, and rules configured in Dayforce.
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(List entitlements) | Gets entitlement definitions configured in Dayforce. Returns entitlement definitions including their names, |
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(List entitlement policies) | Gets entitlement policy definitions configured in Dayforce, including each policy's |
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| Gets the flat rules and qualifiers tree for a specific entitlement definition. Returns a jqTree-formatted list of nodes representing the full hierarchy: RuleSets ( |
WFM Time-Away Tools
Read access to the signed-in employee's time-off data.
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(Get my time-off balances) | Returns the signed-in employee's time-off balances, such as vacation and sick time, with the amount available in each balance and its unit (hours or days). Use it to answer questions such as “How much vacation do I have left?” |
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(List company holidays) | Lists the company holidays that apply to the signed-in employee, with each holiday's name and date. Use it to check whether a date is a holiday, or to plan time off around holidays. |
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(Get my time-off summary) | Returns a summary of the signed-in employee's time off, including upcoming and recent time-off requests with their status. Requires |
