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title: "Connect Personio to Writer - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Employee Updated\" fires in Personio, your agent runs \"Add file\" in Writer."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-writer"
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# Connect Personio to Writer

When **Employee Updated** fires in [Personio](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio), your agent runs **Add file** in [Writer](https://apiant.ai/connections/writer). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Personio **7** triggers Personio **20** actions Writer **16** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Personio and Writer to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Personio can start in Writer

- When **Employee Updated** in Personio then **Add file** in Writer
- When **Employment Updated** in Personio then **Add file to knowledge graph** in Writer

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Personio and Writer

## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 36 actions

- Trigger

**Employee Updated**

Triggers when an employee is updated.

- Trigger

**Employment Updated**

Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are updated

- Trigger

**New Absence**

Triggers when a new absence is created.

- Trigger

**New Candidate**

Fires when a new recruiting candidate is added in Personio.

- Trigger

**New Employee**

Triggers when a new employee is created.

- Trigger

**New Employment Created**

Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are created

- Trigger

**New Open Position**

Triggers when a new open position is created.

- Action

**Add project**

/v2/projects - create a project.

- Action

**Create Absence**

Creates a new absence.

- Action

**Create Attendance**

Creates a new attendance.

- Action

**Create Employee**

Creates a new employee.

- Action

**Delete absence**

/v2/absence-periods/{id} - delete an absence period.

- Action

**Delete attendance**

/v2/attendance-periods/{id} - delete an attendance period.

- Action

**Delete person**

/v2/persons/{id} - delete a person.

- Action

**Find Absence**

Finds an absence by employee ID.

- Action

**Find Employee**

Finds a employee based on email.

- Action

**Find Person**

Finds a person by their Personio ID, name, last name and email, optionally including their absence information.

- Action

**Get Employment**

Retrieves one employment of a person by id: position, status, type, working hours, org units, cost centers, supervisor, office, legal entity, dates.

- Action

**List absence types**

/v2/absence-types - list absence types.

- Action

**List Compensations**

Lists compensations filtered by person.id and a start_date/end_date window; returns id, amount, interval, type, effective_from per record.

- Action

**List legal entities**

/v2/legal-entities - list legal entities.

- Action

**List org units**

/v2/org-units - list org units.

- Action

**List projects**

/v2/projects - list projects.

- Action

**Update absence**

/v2/absence-periods/{id} - update an absence period.

- Action

**Update Attendance**

Updates an existing attendance.

- Action

**Update Employee**

Updates an existing employee.

- Action

**Update Employment**

updates an employment (position, department, office, weekly hours, status, etc.); requires personio:persons:write. Fires the employment.updated webhook.

- Action

**Add file**

Uploads a file (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, image, email, HTML, subtitle, CSV or Excel) to your Writer account, optionally attaching it to a Knowledge Graph.

- Action

**Add file to knowledge graph**

Adds an uploaded file to a Writer Knowledge Graph.

- Action

**Add knowledge graph**

Create a new Knowledge Graph.

- Action

**Ask knowledge graph**

Ask a natural-language question against a Knowledge Graph and get an answer with citations.

- Action

**Delete file**

Permanently delete a file from Writer. This cannot be undone.

- Action

**Delete file from knowledge graph**

Remove a file from a Knowledge Graph. The file remains in your Writer files.

- Action

**Delete knowledge graph**

Delete a Writer Knowledge Graph.

- Action

**Generate chat completion**

Generate a multi-turn chat completion from a list of messages, distinct from the existing single-prompt Send Prompt/Text generation op.

- Action

**Get file**

Retrieve a file's details, including its name, processing status, and the Knowledge Graphs it belongs to.

- Action

**Get knowledge graph**

Retrieve a Writer Knowledge Graph by its id, including file processing status and connected web URLs.

- Action

**List knowledge graphs**

Retrieve a list of Knowledge Graphs. By default only org-wide Knowledge Graphs are returned; supply team IDs to include graphs deployed to those teams.

- Action

**List models**

Lists the models available to your Writer account for text generation, chat completions and other AI tasks.

- Action

**Parse PDF**

Parse a PDF document into structured text.

- Action

**Search web**

Searches the web for a query using Writer's web search tool and returns a generated answer with the source URLs it drew on.

- Action

**Send Prompt**

Generates text from a single prompt with a Writer Palmyra model (or an external model configured for your organization), without conversational context.

- Action

**Update knowledge graph**

Update a Knowledge Graph's name/description.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Personio** Personio is a holistic HR software for companies from 10 - 2000 employees.](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio)
- [ **Writer** Writer is a generative AI platform built for the needs of companies and teams.](https://apiant.ai/connections/writer)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Personio

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- [ **Personio to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-salesforce)
- [ **Personio to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-slack)
- [ **Personio to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-stripe)
- [ **Personio to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-shopify)
- [ **Personio to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-quickbooks-online)

## More into Writer

- [ **Order Desk to Writer** Order Desk's order management software allows you to customize your order management workflow.](https://apiant.ai/connect/order-desk-to-writer)
- [ **HubSpot to Writer** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-writer)
- [ **Salesforce to Writer** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-writer)
- [ **Slack to Writer** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-writer)
- [ **Google Sheets to Writer** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-writer)
- [ **Gmail to Writer** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-writer)

Questions

## Personio and Writer, answered

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### What can start an automation from Personio?

Any of Personio's 7 triggers in the catalog, including Employee Updated, Employment Updated, New Absence and New Candidate. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Writer when something happens in Personio?

Any of Writer's 16 actions, including Send Prompt, Update knowledge graph, Add file and Add file to knowledge graph. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Writer to Personio?

Writer has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Personio. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Writer's API documentation and adds it.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Personio or Writer?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

###

### Can my AI client use Personio and Writer without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

###

### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
