Connect AI assistants to Peoplebox MCP Server
Peoplebox has an MCP server that connects AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT, as well as your company's own AI
agents, to your Peoplebox data. Once connected, you can ask about your 1:1s, goals and performance reviews in plain
language. The assistant can also update your goals and draft review answers for you, and it never does anything you
couldn't do yourself in Peoplebox.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that AI assistants use to connect to other apps.
Before you start
- An admin must turn on the MCP server for your company. It is off by default. See For admins: turn on the MCP server
below.
- You need a Peoplebox account in that company. You sign in the same way you normally sign in to Peoplebox.
- You need an AI assistant that supports MCP connectors, such as Claude, ChatGPT or your company's own agent.
The Peoplebox MCP server address is: https://ai.peoplebox.ai/mcp
For admins: turn on the MCP server
1. In Peoplebox, go to Settings β Nova AI Settings.
2. Make sure Enable AI Features is on.
3. Turn on MCP Server.
4. Copy the Server URL and share it, along with this article, with your team.
Connect your AI assistant
Claude
1. In Claude, open Customize β Connectors.
2. Find Peoplebox and click Connect. If Peoplebox isn't listed, click Add custom connector, enter
https://ai.peoplebox.ai/mcp, and click Add. Leave the advanced settings (client ID and secret) empty.
3. A Peoplebox sign-in page opens. Sign in the way you normally do.
4. You're sent back to Claude, and Peoplebox shows as connected.
On Claude Team and Enterprise plans, an owner of your Claude organization may need to add the connector first.
Claude Code
1. In your terminal, run: claude mcp add --transport http peoplebox https://ai.peoplebox.ai/mcp
2. Start Claude Code, type /mcp, choose peoplebox and select Authenticate.
3. Sign in to Peoplebox in the browser window that opens, then return to your terminal.
ChatGPT
1. In ChatGPT, open Settings β Apps & Connectors. To add your own connector you may need to turn on Developer mode
under Advanced settings. On Business and Enterprise plans, a ChatGPT admin may need to allow it.
2. Create a new connector and enter https://ai.peoplebox.ai/mcp as the server URL. Choose OAuth as the authentication
method.
3. Sign in to Peoplebox when prompted. You're sent back to ChatGPT.
4. In a new chat, turn on the Peoplebox connector and ask your question.
Your company's own AI agent, and other MCP clients
You can connect any agent or app that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth sign-in, for example an agent your IT team
runs on an enterprise AI platform. Share these details with whoever sets up the agent:
- Server URL: https://ai.peoplebox.ai/mcp
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Sign-in: OAuth 2.1 authorization code flow with PKCE (S256). Each person signs in with their own Peoplebox account;
machine-to-machine (client credentials) sign-in isn't supported.
- Discovery: the server answers unauthenticated requests with a 401 that points to its OAuth metadata, at
https://ai.peoplebox.ai/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- Scopes: openid profile email offline_access
- Client registration: Peoplebox supports Client ID Metadata Documents for supported assistants. For any other agent,
email support@peoplebox.ai with the agent's name and its OAuth redirect URL, and we'll send you a client ID to enter
in the agent's settings.
- Tokens: access tokens last 30 minutes. Refresh tokens last 30 days and are replaced each time they're used.
Once the agent is set up, each person connects it and signs in to Peoplebox the first time they use it.
What you can do
1:1 meetings
- See your past and upcoming 1:1s, or the ones with a particular person.
- Read the agenda, the shared notes and your own private notes.
- See your action items, open or completed.
Try asking:
- "What's on the agenda for my next 1:1 with Priya?"
- "Summarise my 1:1s with my team this quarter and list recurring themes."
- "Which action items do I still owe from last month?"
1:1s are read-only. To add notes, agenda items or action items, or to mark them done, use Peoplebox.
People
- Find a colleague by name or email.
- See reporting lines: your manager, your direct reports and your peers.
Try asking: "Who reports to me, and when is my next 1:1 with each of them?"
Goals
- See goals for the current cycle or any past or upcoming cycle: yours, your team's, or company goals you're allowed
to see.
- Read a goal's progress, check-ins and comments.
- Create a goal or a key result.
- Edit a goal's details, such as title, description, dates, targets, milestones, tags, alignment and visibility.
- Check in progress, with an optional comment.
- Add a comment to a goal.
Try asking:
- "Which of my goals are behind?"
- "Check in 60% on my hiring goal and add a comment that two offers are out."
- "Create a goal to cut onboarding time to 10 days by the end of this cycle."
Things to know:
- Goal changes are saved straight to Peoplebox, and anyone who can see the goal will see them.
- Most assistants ask for your approval before they change anything. Check your assistant's settings if you have set
it to allow actions automatically.
- Your company's goal settings still apply, for example approvals or locks during a review cycle. If something is
blocked, the assistant will say so.
- Goals can't be deleted through an AI assistant. Use Peoplebox to delete a goal.
Performance reviews
- Read your released past reviews. Managers can also read released reviews of people in their reporting line.
- See the reviews you still need to write.
- Draft your answers. The assistant saves your comment, or the rating you choose, as a draft on your own review form.
Try asking:
- "What reviews do I still need to write?"
- "Help me draft my self-review answer on collaboration using my 1:1 notes from this quarter."
- "What feedback did I get in my last review?"
Things to know:
- AI assistants never submit a review. Drafts stay private until you open the form in Peoplebox, check it and submit
it yourself. The assistant gives you a link to the form after each draft it saves.
- The assistant shows you exactly what it will save and waits for your OK. It won't choose a rating for you.
- Saving a draft answer replaces the answer already saved for that question, including text you typed in Peoplebox.
Privacy and access
- The assistant sees only what you can already see in Peoplebox. Your role, your reporting line and each record's
privacy settings apply on every request. If your access changes in Peoplebox, the assistant's access changes too.
- Private 1:1 notes stay private. The assistant can read your own private notes, never anyone else's.
- Peoplebox never receives your conversation with the assistant. We receive only the requests it makes for the data or
action you asked for.
- The data a request returns goes to the AI provider you chose, such as Anthropic or OpenAI, and their terms and your
company's agreement with them apply.
- If your account is deactivated, the assistant loses access straight away.
Read our privacy policy: https://www.peoplebox.ai/privacy-policy/
Disconnect
- From your assistant: remove or disconnect Peoplebox in the assistant's connector settings. In Claude, open Customize
β Connectors β Peoplebox and click Disconnect. In Claude Code, run claude mcp remove peoplebox.
- To cut off every assistant linked to your account, email support@peoplebox.ai.
- For admins: turning off MCP Server in Settings β Nova AI Settings disconnects everyone in your company immediately.
Troubleshooting
1. "Peoplebox refused the connection (mcp_not_enabled)" The MCP server isn't turned on for your company. Ask a
Peoplebox admin to turn it on in Settings β Nova AI Settings. Trying again won't help until then.
2. "Couldn't reach the server" when adding a connector Check that the URL is exactly https://ai.peoplebox.ai/mcp,
including /mcp at the end.
3. "invalid_client" or "unknown client" when signing in Your assistant hasn't been set up to sign in to Peoplebox yet.
Email support@peoplebox.ai with the assistant's name and its OAuth redirect URL.
4. The assistant asks you to sign in again, or says your access has expired Reconnect Peoplebox in your assistant's
connector settings. This also happens if your access was revoked or an admin turned the MCP server off and on again.
5. The sign-in window doesn't open or doesn't return to your assistant Allow pop-ups for your assistant's website and
for dashboard.peoplebox.ai, then try again.
6. The assistant says it can't do something Some actions are only available in Peoplebox, for example completing action
items, deleting goals or submitting reviews. It may also be that you don't have permission in Peoplebox.
7. Something else? Email support@peoplebox.ai with the assistant you use, what you asked and the time it happened.