How to Connect Breathe HR to Claude with Tugger
How to connect Breathe HR to Claude with Tugger, step by step: get your Breathe API key, add the connector in Tugger, connect Tugger MCP to Claude, then build a "who's off before Christmas?" dashboard from one natural language prompt: days booked by department and week, requests still waiting for approval, and each department's cover over Christmas. Tugger syncs your Breathe people, departments, absences and leave requests into a database that's yours. Tugger MCP lets Claude query it, and the same data can feed your Power BI reports. TRY THE PROMPT (copy and paste into Claude with Tugger MCP connected, and change the connector name and dates to suit): Using my "Breathe" connector in Tugger, build me an interactive "Who's off before Christmas?" dashboard for the rest of this year. Use approved absences for time off that is already booked, and pending leave requests for time still waiting for approval. At the top, show how many people have time off booked, the total days booked and how many requests are waiting for approval. Then add days off by week, split by department, and a Christmas week panel showing, for each department, how many people are in and how many are off. Show everything by department rather than by person, and keep it clean and easy to read. Then try this follow-up: Add a chart of the requests still waiting for approval, by department and week, and tell me in one line which department needs cover planning first over Christmas. SETUP GUIDES Your Breathe API key: in Breathe, open Configure at the bottom of the menu and choose Settings. Under Integrations, click API Setup, check the API shows as enabled, then copy your production API key. You'll need to be a Breathe admin to see this page. Breathe connector setup guide: [exact docs URL] Connecting Tugger to Claude: https://docs.tuggerapp.com/docs/connecting-tugger-to-claude What is an MCP server? https://tuggerapp.com/Blogs/Blog/What-Is-an-MCP-Server CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:00 The end result 0:00 How it fits together 0:00 1. Add Breathe to Tugger 0:00 Name it and choose your history 0:00 Your Breathe API key 0:00 Check your credentials 0:00 Save 0:00 The first sync 0:00 2. Connect Tugger to Claude 0:00 3. Build a Christmas cover dashboard 0:00 What came back 0:00 Tweak it 0:00 What the tweak shows 0:00 Already using Power BI? 0:00 Try it on your own data Start a free 10-day trial: https://tuggerapp.com/signup Tugger is UK-based and ISO 27001:2022 certified. Figures in this video come from a Breathe demo account with made-up staff.
