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MCP Server

Enable AI agents to securely access and interact with your Cinode data.

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Written by Magnus Burton
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Let your AI agents work smarter—with Cinode data

The Cinode MCP Server securely connects AI tools and MCP-compatible agents to your Cinode environment so they can access your organisation’s live data. That gives agents the same contextual view of people, projects, skills and assignments that your team has—instantly—so they can assist, analyse, update and automate with confidence.

Think of it as giving your AI assistant a working knowledge of your Cinode setup, without exposing data you don’t want shared.


Why use the Cinode MCP Server?

  • Smarter AI support – Agents act with real context from your Cinode data

  • Faster workflows – Reduce time spent on manual updates and lookups

  • Always in sync – Agents work with live, up-to-date information

  • Secure by design – Fine‑grained access control over what agents can see and change


What can AI agents do with Cinode data?

Once connected, AI agents can:

  • Summarise consultant CVs, project statuses, and candidate histories

  • Search for skills, vacancies and available candidates

  • Draft or update profiles, roles and assignments

  • Analyse patterns like skills gaps, utilisation and delivery timelines

  • Automate repetitive workflows based on real-time information

Below are practical, copy-ready prompts grouped by persona and use case.

Recruiter / Sourcer

  • "Find all candidates with React experience who are available within 30 days and rank them by rating and last contact date."

  • "Show candidates that match 'backend + Go' with at least 3 years' experience and export their emails to CSV."

  • "Alert me when new candidates matching 'data scientist' enter the pipeline with rating >= 4."

  • "Create a candidate for Alex Rivera (alex@example.com) and mark them available from 2025-10-01."

Hiring Manager

  • "List current roles for project 456 and recommend two internal candidates who match those role requirements."

  • "Pull full profiles for shortlisted candidate IDs [101, 102, 103] and show their interview availability this week."

  • "Update the 'Senior Engineer' posting to add 'distributed systems' as a required skill and set the deadline to 2025-11-01."

Team Lead / Engineering Manager

  • "Show weekly utilisation for my team (users [11,22,33]) and flag any weeks exceeding 90%."

  • "Find team members with 'React Native' skill at level 3+ and propose a two-week overlap schedule for knowledge transfer."

  • "Create a 1‑hour kickoff meeting on 2025-10-05 10:00 and attach a one-line agenda."

Project Manager

  • "Get project 789’s details including assignments, upcoming milestones, and unassigned roles."

  • "Schedule a recurring weekly status meeting for project 789 every Monday at 09:00 and assign it to the project manager."

  • "Add a kickoff event to project 789 with the description 'scope alignment' and assign it to user 55."

Customer Success / Sales

  • "Create customer 'Nordic Supply', add contact Emma Lee (emma@ndx.com) and set the company country to Sweden."

  • "Add a note to customer 234 summarising the latest call and tag the account 'at-risk'."

  • "Retrieve all customers tagged 'enterprise' and list primary contact emails."

HR / People Ops

  • "Add a full‑day absence for employee 555 on 2025-10-10 and show that user’s absence history for the last 6 months."

  • "Create an employee record for candidate ID 321 with a starting password and add them to team 7."

  • "Export employees with employment start dates in Q4 2024 to a spreadsheet."

Learning & Training

  • "List company trainings of type 'certification' and add a new training 'Security Basics' with target date 2026-01-15."

  • "Look up Microsoft certifications online that we have not in our company training catalog, create them and add these to relevant employee's growth plans."

  • "Show employees who completed 'Code Review Best Practices' and filter by team."

Admin / Finance

  • "Update customer 123’s VAT number to SE123456789 and attach a short note about the change."

  • "Add 'Acme Corp' HQ address in Stockholm with zip code and contact phone."

  • "List billing-related customer tags for accounts created in the last 12 months."

Resource Planning / Operations

  • "Get weekly utilisation for teams [3,5] and users [11,22] over the next 6 months to identify capacity gaps."

  • "List unassigned roles for a high-priority project and recommend the top three internal users available next sprint."

  • "Create or update team 'Mobile Team' under parent team 3 and add user 77 with 80% availability."

Executive / Reporting

  • "Produce a headcount summary by team and role for the last quarter and highlight net hires vs departures."

  • "Show a utilisation heatmap for all teams for the coming 6 months and list teams with projected shortages."

  • "Export a CSV of employees with level >= 4 in 'Leadership' skills and their current assignment status."

Integrations & Automation (advanced)

  • "When a candidate reaches stage 'Offer', create the employee record, add an onboarding event for HR, and enroll them in the 'Onboarding' training."

  • "For every new customer tagged 'priority', create a primary contact, lookup and add the HQ address and schedule a 30‑day follow‑up event assigned to sales rep 12."

Complex multi-step workflows (examples)

  • "Search candidates for 'machine learning' with rating >= 4, shortlist the top 3, create interview events for next Tuesday at staggered times and notify the hiring manager."

  • "Generate a project 456 report, list missing role assignments, assign two available users to those roles and add a project note summarising the changes."

  • "Run a capacity check for teams [2,3,4] for the next 3 months; if any week exceeds 85% utilisation, create a subcontractor request and tag it 'urgent'."


Security & Governance

You control the agent’s access and allowed actions. Only grant read/write scopes the agent needs, and use approval gates for high‑impact operations (for example: updating employees, changing billing details, deleting projects, or tagging customers).

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