Read-only Workday for Claude — fetch tasks, pay, benefits via your signed-in session
Read-only Workday for Claude — fetch tasks, pay, benefits via your signed-in session. The workday mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 3 defined tools rather than through you.
The official Workday REST/SOAP API requires a tenant administrator to register an OAuth API client + Integration System User — an employee can't self-provision it. Tenants also sit behind corporate SSO (Ping/Okta/Entra) with MFA, so there's no server-side login. The only surface an employee can reach for their own data is their live browser session, which is what this server relays.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
workday_get_apps — List your Workday apps with launchable task ids — the discovery entry pointworkday_get_task — Read a Workday task/data card by task id or path → title, fields, references, related tasks, export linksworkday_healthcheck — Verify the bridge + session end-to-end with an actionable hintnpm on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
You will need one environment variable: WORKDAY_TENANT. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
This sits in the planning and project tracking group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Workday's toolset — workday_get_apps, workday_get_task, workday_healthcheck — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by chrischall; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.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 |
|---|---|
| workday_get_apps | List your Workday apps with launchable task ids — the discovery entry point |
| workday_get_task | Read a Workday task/data card by task id or path → title, fields, references, related tasks, export links |
| workday_healthcheck | Verify the bridge + session end-to-end with an actionable hint |
{
"mcpServers": {
"workday": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "workday-mcp"],
"env": { "WORKDAY_TENANT": "your-tenant-slug" }
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| WORKDAY_TENANT | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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