MCP server for Rippling HR/IT/Finance platform — employees, departments, leave management, groups, and company data
Rippling MCP MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP server for Rippling HR/IT/Finance platform — employees, departments, leave management, groups, and company data.
Go to Rippling > Settings > API Tokens > Create API Token. Copy the token.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Once Rippling MCP is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Company — The Company tool exposed by this serverEmployees — The Employees tool exposed by this serverOrganization — The Organization tool exposed by this serverGroups — The Groups tool exposed by this serverActivity — The Activity tool exposed by this serverYou will need 2 environment variables: RIPPLING_API_TOKEN, RIPPLING_BASE_URL. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Rippling MCP's toolset — Company, Employees, Organization and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by bifrost-mcp; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Company | The Company tool exposed by this server. |
| Employees | The Employees tool exposed by this server. |
| Organization | The Organization tool exposed by this server. |
| Groups | The Groups tool exposed by this server. |
| Activity | The Activity tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"rippling": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "rippling-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"RIPPLING_API_TOKEN": "your_api_token_here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| RIPPLING_API_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| RIPPLING_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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