Claude Gusto connectorWhat Claude can do in your Gusto account.
The Claude Gusto connector exposes 43 tools. 31 read, 3 write, 9 are described by no official source. Below: what Claude can pull from your payroll and people data, the three tools that act on your account, the admin access Gusto requires, and where sources disagree.
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What changes for your payroll and HR work
You stop exporting reports to answer a headcount or payroll question. With Gusto connected, Claude can look up employees, contractors, departments, pay schedules, payroll runs and time records, then answer in plain language. Gusto lets you choose which categories of data the connection covers when you authorize it, and three tools go beyond reading.
Answer a budget question in a minute. Finance wants the gross cost of the latest payrolls. list_payrolls lists the runs and get_payroll opens one with earnings, taxes, deductions and net pay per worker.
See who sits where. Before a reorganisation, list_employees and list_departments give Claude what it needs to count people per department, and list_contractors adds the non-employee side.
Unblock a payroll. When a run will not go through, list_payroll_blockers names the issues stopping it. Once fixed, run_payroll calculates and submits an unprocessed payroll, and record_time logs admin-entered hours for one worker.
What Claude will not do: reach data categories you left out at authorization, see anything without a Gusto account holding full admin rights, or keep your data private from other connectors in the same chat. Gusto asks you to use it in isolation. Nine listed tools are described nowhere. And nothing runs on its own: no tool fires on a pay date or a new hire. Background processing belongs to an automation tool, a different job; the Integrations hub covers it.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while connecting Gusto.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in it while answering you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude picks the ones it needs by itself, and the directory lists each by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of the service itself, where you hand Claude its access. Granted once per person, and you can take it back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes through with something that changes your account, shown right in the conversation.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service.
Connect Gusto to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Gusto in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Gusto in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable the connector first, before each member can sign in on their side.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to Gusto in the window Gusto opens itself. The access granted there is yours alone, given once per person. If the link breaks later, use Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Check the authorization screen before you accept. It belongs to Gusto, not to Claude, and it decides what the access covers: there you pick the data categories and, if needed, the company. You can withdraw that access later.
The 43 tools, sorted by what they do
Gusto gives Claude 43 tools: 31 that read your account, 3 that change something in it, and 9 no official source describes.
Three groups: what Claude reads, what it changes, and what no official source describes. Names stay as Claude shows them, in English.
- 31 read
- 3 write
- 9 not documented
Tools index
- get_company_onboarding_status
- list_employees
- list_payrolls
- list_time_records
- list_contractors
- list_departments
- get_job
- get_location
- get_pay_schedule
- get_payroll
- get_time_sheet
- get_token_info
- list_contractor_payment_groups
- list_contractor_payments
- list_earning_types
- list_employee_custom_fields
- list_employee_home_addresses
- list_employee_jobs
- list_employee_work_addresses
- get_compensation
- list_job_compensations
- list_locations
- list_pay_periods
- list_pay_schedule_assignments
- list_pay_schedules
- list_payroll_blockers
- get_contractor_payment_group
- get_employee
- get_department
- get_company
- get_contractor
What Claude reads (31)
31 toolsThirty-one lookups on your company, people, payroll and time data, with no change to your account.
get_company_onboarding_status
Reports how far your company setup has come: which onboarding questions remain, whether each one is required, and what the next step is.
list_employees
Lists every employee on record, with filtering options, so Claude can count, sort or compare people across the whole company in one answer.
list_payrolls
Brings back your payroll runs with filters. By default the filter works on pay period dates, not on check dates, which matters when you ask about a given month.
list_time_records
Pulls the time records for a pay period, routed automatically to whichever time tracking your company uses, Gusto's own or a third-party one.
list_contractors
Returns your independent contractors, with pagination and search, so Claude can look one up or go through the whole list page by page.
list_departments
Shows every department in the company's org structure, the frame Claude needs before it can group people by team or compare one team against another.
get_job
Opens the details of a specific job position, the role a person holds as Gusto records it.
get_location
Retrieves the details of a single company location, as opposed to the full list of sites, when Claude already knows which one you mean.
get_pay_schedule
Gives the details of a specific pay schedule, the rhythm on which a group of people is paid.
get_payroll
Opens a specific payroll with each worker's earnings, taxes, deductions and net pay, the level of detail you need to explain a payslip.
get_time_sheet
Fetches the detailed time entries of a specific timesheet. Gusto limits it to third-party time tracking.
get_token_info
Reveals which scopes the current connection holds and which company resources it can reach. Gusto points to it as the way to check exactly what you granted.
list_contractor_payment_groups
Lists the batched contractor payment runs for the company, each grouping several individual payments made in one go, so Claude can work at the level of the batch.
list_contractor_payments
Returns the payments made to contractors within a date range, one line per payment, which lets Claude total or compare what freelancers received over a period.
list_earning_types
Lists the earning type categories configured for your company, so Claude knows which kinds of pay your account already distinguishes before reading a payroll.
list_employee_custom_fields
Shows the custom field values set for one employee, the extra data your company chose to track beyond Gusto's standard fields.
list_employee_home_addresses
Lists all home addresses recorded for one employee, as Gusto keeps them on file.
list_employee_jobs
Returns every job position a given employee holds, a natural starting point when you want to look at someone's pay role by role.
list_employee_work_addresses
Lists the work locations assigned to one employee, so Claude can say which site that person is attached to on record in Gusto.
get_compensation
Pulls up a specific pay rate record, one single entry in someone's compensation history, with its details as Gusto stores them.
list_job_compensations
Gives the pay rate history attached to one job position, so Claude can trace how a salary or an hourly rate evolved from one review to the next.
list_locations
Returns the full list of company locations, offices and other sites together, as they are configured in your Gusto account.
list_pay_periods
Lists pay periods together with links to the payroll runs tied to them, which helps Claude match a period on the calendar to the payroll that covered it.
list_pay_schedule_assignments
Shows which employees are assigned to which pay schedule, the mapping between people and the rhythms on which they get paid.
list_pay_schedules
Lists every pay schedule configured for the company, so Claude knows which rhythms are in place before it looks at any individual payroll run.
list_payroll_blockers
Identifies the issues preventing one specific payroll from being processed, so you know exactly what to fix first instead of guessing from a generic error.
get_contractor_payment_group
Opens one batched contractor payment run and shows every individual payment it contains, contractor by contractor.
get_employee
Retrieves the detailed record of one specific employee, the usual starting point for any question that concerns a single person rather than a team.
get_department
Fetches the record of a single department in the company structure, as Gusto holds it.
get_company
Pulls your business profile: legal name, entity type, EIN, contact details and locations, the identity card of the company as Gusto knows it.
get_contractor
Brings up the detailed record of one specific contractor, for questions that concern a single freelancer rather than the whole list of people you contract with.
What Claude changes (3)
3 toolsThree tools that act on your Gusto account. No source gives them a confirmation of their own: the general rule below applies.
record_time
Approval: see the ruleLogs admin-entered time for a single worker over a pay period, routed automatically to Gusto's native time tracking or to the third-party tool your company uses.
run_payroll
Approval: see the ruleCalculates and submits an existing payroll that has not yet been processed. The directory sheet adds that only eligible customers can run payroll in Claude, without defining who qualifies.
create_company
Approval: see the ruleSets up your Gusto company and payroll admin account during signup, in two passes: a first call checks the account email, a second one creates the company.
Undocumented (9)
9 toolsThe directory publishes these nine names and nothing more. Gusto's tool reference does not list them, and this page will not guess from a name.
get_work_address
This name appears in the directory's tool list and that is all there is. Gusto's tool reference does not contain it, and no Claude page does either, so this page says nothing more.
list_custom_fields
Same silence here: listed by name, described by no official text. Flagging the gap beats filling it with a guess drawn from how the name sounds.
list_employee_employments
The directory carries this entry without a single line of explanation, and the publisher's documentation skips it too. This page therefore stops at the name, on purpose.
list_employee_separations
One more name the sheet lists and nobody documents: neither Gusto nor Anthropic says what it covers or whether it alters anything in your account.
query_faq
Gusto publishes a reference of 72 tools, and this name is not among them. The directory shows it, but no text explains its role.
calculate_payroll
The sheet read on October 1, 2026 lists this tool, yet no official source documents it: neither Gusto's documentation nor Claude's help centre. Its effect on your account is therefore unknown, and this page will not describe it from its name.
submit_payroll
Here too, only the name is public. No official source says whether it reads or acts, and this page will not infer it, however clear the name looks to a payroll admin.
get_home_address
Neither the publisher nor Anthropic documents this entry of the directory list. What it returns or touches is not stated anywhere this page could cite, so the note stops here.
get_rehire
Last of the nine names with no source. The directory lists it; the tool reference Gusto maintains does not, so nothing about its behaviour is known or written here.
What Claude asks before acting
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before each action it takes on an account for you. The request shows up in the conversation, when it matters.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through without being asked every time. They can also cap what a connector may do for the whole organization, keeping reads open and closing writes, and nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude works with your rights and nothing more, and with Gusto it is narrower still: only the data categories you ticked at authorization are in reach.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows availability by plan. That answer is published nowhere, connector by connector: a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector for the organization before members can connect. Gusto's documentation says something narrower, set against that rule in the limits section. For the current state, check the connector's sheet in the official directory.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts on a pay date, a new hire or a missing timesheet.
The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise: an administrator can open actions that appear on no public sheet. The partner badge is not a security audit either, and Anthropic says so on every sheet: it does not choose the tools a publisher exposes and does not guarantee they behave as announced. Only Gusto's documentation covers this connector, and it describes a catalogue of 72 tools against 43 on the sheet.
Which plans let Claude use the Gusto connector?
- Claude help centre, general rule for connectors ↗September 2026Remote connectors are open to all users; on Team and Enterprise, an Owner first enables each one.
- Gusto documentation, troubleshooting guide ↗read October 2026The publisher tells you to verify that your subscription level supports this server, naming Pro or Max for Claude.
What this page followsNeither side is out of date: Anthropic's rule covers every connector, while Gusto's line targets its own server but sits in a troubleshooting guide that also describes a custom setup. It is the publisher speaking, not Anthropic: check the directory sheet from your own account before relying on either.
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