What HR data stays out of reach?

Pay, salary history, bank accounts, equity, dependents and right-to-work data are not offered, nor hiring, creating, updating or terminating employees, balance adjustments and custom tables. On top of that, the assistant only sees what the service user’s permission group allows.

Does a time-off request skip the manager?

No. A request goes to the employee’s manager for approval in Bob, as one made in Bob would, and it waits for your approval in Flowplane before it is even sent. A cancelled request cannot be brought back, only submitted again.

Why does a people search show at most 100 employees?

Bob answers a people search with everyone at once, without pages, so the assistant asks for only a few fields and shows at most 100 employees. To find one person, it filters by their id or email.

Does GitHub Copilot see the password or key for HiBob?

No. The key for HiBob is pasted into Flowplane once and kept sealed there. GitHub Copilot only gets a Flowplane sign-in for you, which you can revoke in the console.

Can GitHub Copilot change things in HiBob without asking?

Not by default: every change in HiBob waits for your approval in the browser. Your workspace’s rules decide, per tool.

Connect GitHub Copilot to HiBob

GitHub Copilot reaches HiBob through one Flowplane address. You add HiBob once in Flowplane, add that address to GitHub Copilot, and sign in. Look up colleagues, who is out, time-off balances and tasks in HiBob, and request or cancel time off after you approve.

Connect HiBob →Set up your assistant

Tools: 7 read · 2 change
Sign-in: One shared key
Approval, by default: Changes wait for you
MCP server: Flowplane’s tools

1
Add HiBob in Flowplane
In the Flowplane console, add HiBob and enter the service user’s ID and token. Copy the token when you create the service user: Bob shows it only once.
HiBob’s API works with a service user, not a personal login. Your Bob administrator creates one (Settings, Integrations, Service users) and puts it in a permission group that holds only what assistants may see; its ID and token are entered into Flowplane once for the organisation. Flowplane keeps the token sealed; the assistant never sees it.
Connect HiBob →
2
Add Flowplane to GitHub Copilot
Your address is shown in the Flowplane console; it looks like
https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label>
1. In VS Code, open the command palette and run MCP: Add Server. Choose HTTP (HTTP or Server-Sent Events) and paste https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label> (or add the block below to .vscode/mcp.json).
2. Choose Authenticate, then sign in to Flowplane and allow VS Code.
3. In Copilot Chat, switch to Agent mode.
```
{
  "servers": {
    "flowplane": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label>" }
  }
}
```
Steps checked against the vendor’s documentation (Microsoft)
3
Ask GitHub Copilot
- “Who in the Marketing department is out next week?”
- “How many holiday days does Sarah Peeters have left this year?”
- “Which onboarding tasks are still open for our new hire, Tom?”
- “Which time-off requests were cancelled in the last month?”
- “Request a day of holiday for Tom Claes on 23 December.”

What it can do

What GitHub Copilot can do in HiBob

HiBob (Bob) is the HR platform of many growing companies. Through Flowplane an AI assistant can find employees and the fields you ask for, see who is out between two dates, look up a time-off balance or request, follow what changed in time off, and list a person’s tasks. It can submit a time-off request, which then goes to the employee’s manager as usual, and cancel one; both wait for your approval by default.

Reads7

Find peopleSearch employeesfind_people
List the employee fieldsWhich fields an employee haslist_people_fields
List tasksAn employee's taskslist_tasks
Whos outWho is outwhos_out
Get time off balanceA time-off balanceget_time_off_balance
Get time off requestA time-off requestget_time_off_request
Time off changesTime-off changestime_off_changes

Changesasks first2

Request time offRequest time off, asked firstrequest_time_off
Cancel a time-off requestCancel a request, asked first by defaultcancel_time_off_request

FAQ

Questions

What HR data stays out of reach?: Pay, salary history, bank accounts, equity, dependents and right-to-work data are not offered, nor hiring, creating, updating or terminating employees, balance adjustments and custom tables. On top of that, the assistant only sees what the service user’s permission group allows.
Does a time-off request skip the manager?: No. A request goes to the employee’s manager for approval in Bob, as one made in Bob would, and it waits for your approval in Flowplane before it is even sent. A cancelled request cannot be brought back, only submitted again.
Why does a people search show at most 100 employees?: Bob answers a people search with everyone at once, without pages, so the assistant asks for only a few fields and shows at most 100 employees. To find one person, it filters by their id or email.
Does GitHub Copilot see the password or key for HiBob?: No. The key for HiBob is pasted into Flowplane once and kept sealed there. GitHub Copilot only gets a Flowplane sign-in for you, which you can revoke in the console.
Can GitHub Copilot change things in HiBob without asking?: Not by default: every change in HiBob waits for your approval in the browser. Your workspace’s rules decide, per tool.

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