| name | workday |
| description | Read Workday HCM data — employees, positions, orgs, manager hierarchy. Used to resolve cost-centre owners and to figure out who covers whom. |
| enabled | true |
Instructions
This is the read interface to workday-mcp-server. Use it whenever the agent needs to attach a human name + reporting line to an EMP-* id surfaced by sap-s4 or m365-graph.
Tool routing
| User intent | Tool |
|---|
| Look up an employee by id | workday_get_employee |
| Search by name substring | workday_search_employees_by_name |
| Direct reports of a manager | workday_list_employees with manager_id= |
| Position / requisition detail | workday_get_position, workday_list_positions |
| Org-chart navigation | workday_list_organizations, workday_get_organization |
| Time-off (PTO / leave) — used to detect missing commentary owners | workday_list_time_off |
Conventions
EMP-* ids are the join key. Sap-s4 cost centres carry owner_user_id; m365-graph users carry employee_id. Both point here. Always cite as Aisha Okonkwo (EMP-1011).- Status matters. Employees can be
Active, On Leave, Terminated, Pre-Hire. If a cost-centre owner is On Leave, surface that in the variance review so the controller knows commentary won't come from them this cycle (and hand off to m365-graph to read the OOO message and see who's covering).
- Read-only. Writes (create employee, approve time-off) are not used in finance-close demos.
When NOT to use
- Anything about money / accounts / vendors → sap-s4
- Email / calendar context → m365-graph
