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MCP connector Claude ChatGPT Mistral OAuth 2.1 Hosted in France

Run Nicoka CABS from your AI

Candidates, assignments, CRM and reporting, in natural language,
from Claude, ChatGPT or Mistral's Le Chat.

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Compatible AI

An open standard: the Model Context Protocolsupport@nicoka.com

Your requests in natural language
Nicoka MCP server
Model Context Protocol · OAuth 2.1 · TLS 1.3
Your Nicoka CABS workspace
ATSCandidates · Assignments
CRMAccounts · Opportunities
ReportingReports · Dashboards
What is MCP?

An open standard to connect your AI to your business data

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard, initiated by Anthropic in 2024, that lets an AI connect to business software: read its data and run actions in it, with no custom development.

With the Nicoka CABS MCP connector, your assistant works on your ATS, your CRM and your reporting. Find a candidate, move a pipeline forward, prepare a client meeting or build a dashboard, in natural language.

  • Secure OAuth 2.1 connection : consent screen in 10 languages, permissions controlled by the administrator.
  • Real time : more than 70 tools query your workspace directly, with no export or synchronisation.
  • No development : the server address in your assistant, your Nicoka credentials, and you are ready.
In action

Your AI reads your Nicoka data, in one sentence.

Describe what you are looking for. Your AI queries Nicoka CABS and answers with your real accounts and your real opportunities. The data in this example is fictitious.

Your CRM

My AI
Ask your question here…
More than 70 tools available

Everything your assistant can do in Nicoka CABS

From sourcing to reporting, every module is exposed through tools your assistant picks on its own: describe what you want, and it chains the actions. See the details, module by module.

Candidates

Search your talent pool in natural language, view a full profile, create or complete a record, have a CV read.

  • nicoka_search_candidates
  • nicoka_get_candidate
  • nicoka_update_candidate
  • nicoka_read_document

Assignments and pipeline

Create an assignment, add up to 50 candidates at once, move them forward a stage or disqualify them with a reason.

  • nicoka_create_job
  • nicoka_add_candidate_to_job
  • nicoka_move_candidate_to_step
  • nicoka_disqualify_candidate

CRM and prospecting

View accounts, prospects, contacts, opportunities and campaign leads. Create an account, a contact or an opportunity.

  • nicoka_list_prospect_companies
  • nicoka_get_customer
  • nicoka_create_opportunity
  • nicoka_list_campaign_leads

Activities, tasks and calendar

Log a call, an email or a meeting at its actual date, schedule a follow-up, check your calendar.

  • nicoka_log_activity
  • nicoka_log_candidate_call
  • nicoka_create_task
  • nicoka_list_events

Reporting and dashboards

Get a total, a breakdown or a trend in one question, save the report, build a shared dashboard.

  • nicoka_query
  • nicoka_run_report
  • nicoka_create_report
  • nicoka_create_dashboard

Sales and invoicing

View quotes, orders, payment schedules, invoices and payments. This module is read-only.

  • nicoka_list_quotations
  • nicoka_list_orders
  • nicoka_get_invoice
  • nicoka_list_payments
Getting started

Connected in four steps, with no development

Detailed step-by-step guides and videos: Claude · ChatGPT · Mistral.

1

Add the connector

In your assistant's settings, add a custom connector with the address https://YOUR-INSTANCE.nicoka.com/api/mcp.

2

Authorise access

Sign in with your usual Nicoka credentials and approve the consent screen. The assistant never has access to your password.

3

Set the permissions

Always allow the read actions you use often, and keep manual approval for write actions while you find your feet.

4

Ask in natural language

Enable the connector in a conversation and ask your first question: “List my last 5 opportunities in Nicoka”.

Real-life examples

What your assistant does for your agency

Four everyday uses for a recruiter, phrased in natural language. You can approve every write action before it runs.

Source from your talent pool

Describe the profile as you would to a colleague: the assistant searches your talent pool with the same criteria as Nicoka's AI search, then adds the selected profiles to the assignment.

Find me senior React developers around Lyon who have never been contacted, and add the top three to the Lead Dev assignment.
Profiles found in your talent pool
Experience, location, availability
Three candidates added to the sourcing stage

Prepare a client meeting

Before the call, the assistant gathers the account history. After the call, it logs the conversation and creates the follow-up task.

Prepare my meeting with this client: current assignments, latest conversations, opportunities, this year's invoices.
Account summary
Current assignments and candidate stages
Latest conversations, open opportunity, invoices

Keep the pipeline up to date

The assistant spots candidates you have not heard from, schedules follow-ups and moves forward the stages you tell it to.

Which candidates at the client interview stage have not had any news for ten days? Create a follow-up for each one.
Candidates to follow up identified
One follow-up task created per candidate
Due date and assignee filled in

Run the agency's business

Assignments per consultant, placements, invoicing: the assistant queries your reporting and builds a dashboard to share.

Create the team dashboard: open assignments per consultant and invoices for the quarter.
Dashboard created
Reports saved and laid out as widgets
Shared with the team
Security and sovereignty

Your data stays yours.
Hosted in France, under your control.

The Nicoka CABS MCP connector is built for recruitment professionals who do not compromise on the confidentiality of their clients' and candidates' data.

France

Data hosted in France

Your Nicoka data stays hosted in France, in your workspace. The assistant reads it when you make a request.

  • Hosted in France
  • GDPR compliance
  • TLS 1.3 encryption
OAuth 2.1

A connection under your control

You sign in with your Nicoka credentials, after a consent screen that details the access requested.

  • Consent screen in 10 languages
  • Permissions set by the administrator
  • Access can be cut off at any time
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Records the assistant can delete

The assistant acts with your user rights. It adds information without overwriting what exists, and deletes no records.

  • Your user rights apply
  • No record deletion
  • Invoicing is read-only

Don’t have an AI assistant yet?

Meet Ada, the AI assistant built into Nicoka. She reads, sorts, drafts and prepares directly in your ATS and your CRM: you keep the decision, she gives you back your time.

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Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about the Nicoka CABS MCP connector

What exactly is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
MCP is an open standard, launched by Anthropic in 2024, that defines how an AI assistant communicates with business software. In practice, it lets an assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT read and write in Nicoka CABS in natural language, with no custom development.
Do you need to be a developer to connect your assistant?
No. You add the MCP server address in your assistant's settings, then sign in with your Nicoka credentials. Our step-by-step guides for Claude, ChatGPT and Mistral walk you through it, with videos.
Which AI assistants are compatible?
MCP is an open standard. Our guides cover Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Mistral's Le Chat. On the Claude side, custom connectors are available on the Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans. On the ChatGPT side, adding a custom connector depends on your subscription and goes through developer mode; within an organization (Business, Enterprise, Edu), an administrator may need to allow it. Using another AI? Send your request to support@nicoka.com : we will tell you whether it can connect to Nicoka CABS.
What does the assistant see of my data?
Only what your user rights allow you to see, and only to answer your requests. Your data stays hosted in France in Nicoka. The assistant you connect applies its own processing terms: check them before using it on personal data.
Can the assistant delete or overwrite my data?
No. Creations, notes and logged activities add entries without changing what exists. Only candidates, contacts and activities can be edited, field by field. No record can be deleted: only an activity can be, after confirmation.
Can the assistant create quotes or invoices?
No. Sales and invoicing are read-only: the assistant views quotes, orders, payment schedules, invoices and payments, but creates none.
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MCP and recruitment: why connecting your AI to your ATS changes a recruitment agency's daily work

Since 2024, the Model Context Protocol has become the open standard that connects AIs to business software. Where you once had to export files, copy and paste information from one tab to another or fund custom development, MCP lets an assistant access a software's structured data in real time, within precise permissions.

What MCP actually changes for recruiters

A recruitment agency handles talent pools of several thousand profiles, assignments, communication histories, a sales pipeline and invoicing every day. This information is valuable, but it used to be out of reach of the AIs teams use to write or prepare their exchanges. The Nicoka CABS MCP connector opens this data to them.

A recruiter can ask their assistant: “Show me the React candidates who have never been contacted and are available in the Paris region” and get the list from their own talent pool, with no export or copy-paste. They can then add these profiles to an assignment, log an interview report or schedule a follow-up, in the same conversation.

Security and compliance: what agencies need to know

The confidentiality of candidate and client data is at the heart of an agency's obligations. The Nicoka CABS MCP connector was designed accordingly:

MCP or classic integration: what changes

A classic integration synchronises data at set times, in one direction, for a use defined in advance. MCP allows on-demand exchanges in both directions: the assistant reads, but it can also write, within the defined rights. It is this ability to act, not just to read, that makes it a productivity tool for recruitment professionals.

Find out more: Ada, the Nicoka CABS AI assistant, ATS module, Nicoka CABS CRM, all our integrations.

Your AI. Your data. Your recruitment.

Connect your AI to Nicoka CABS. Our teams support you every step of the way.

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