First-party app
Zoho Recruit

Zoho Recruit

Create, read, update, search and change the pipeline status of Candidates, Job Openings and Clients in Zoho Recruit, across every Zoho data centre.

stable Human Resources

About

Zoho Recruit ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 22 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.zoho-recruit
Version
0.1.0
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Human Resources

Overview

Zoho Recruit is an applicant tracking system, and this app reads and writes the core records a hiring pipeline runs on: create, read, update, delete and search Candidates, Job Openings and Clients, move a Candidate (or a Job Opening) through its pipeline stage with a dedicated status-change call, and attach Notes to any record. Every list/search action ships without a forced field list, since Zoho Recruit’s own Get Records API treats fields as optional — unlike Zoho CRM’s identically-shaped endpoint, which requires it.

Zoho hosts every Recruit account in one of ten regional data centres, each with its own API host and (almost always) its own OAuth host, so this app routes each region through its own dedicated connection rather than one that could silently send a EU account’s requests through the US region instead.

Scoped to Zoho Recruit specifically, not Zoho’s wider suite of business apps (CRM, Books, Desk, Mail and the rest) — each of those is a separate app in this pack. Bulk read/write jobs (a separate asynchronous surface), file/attachment upload (multipart), and blueprint/approval-process actions are deliberately left out as not core CRUD-and-status workflow automation.

Build with Zoho Recruit

Three routes to the same 22 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Zoho Recruit's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Create Candidate

candidate-create

Create a record in the Candidates module.

Delete Candidate

candidate-delete

Delete a record from the Candidates module.

Get Candidate

candidate-get

Get a single record from the Candidates module by id.

List Candidates

candidate-list

List records in the Candidates module.

Change Candidate Status

candidate-status-change

Move one or more Candidates to a new pipeline stage (Candidate_Status).

Update Candidate

candidate-update

Update a record in the Candidates module.

Create Client

client-create

Create a record in the Clients module. Zoho requires "Client_Name".

Delete Client

client-delete

Delete a record from the Clients module.

Get Client

client-get

Get a single record from the Clients module by id.

List Clients

client-list

List records in the Clients module — the hiring companies Recruit works on behalf of.

Update Client

client-update

Update a record in the Clients module.

Create Job Opening

job-opening-create

Create a record in the Job Openings module. Zoho requires "Job_Opening_Name" and "Number_of_Positions" at minimum.

Delete Job Opening

job-opening-delete

Delete a record from the Job Openings module.

Get Job Opening

job-opening-get

Get a single record from the Job Openings module by id.

List Job Openings

job-opening-list

List records in the Job Openings module.

Change Job Opening Status

job-opening-status-change

Move one or more Job Openings to a new pipeline stage (Job_Opening_Status).

Update Job Opening

job-opening-update

Update a record in the Job Openings module.

Create Note

note-create

Attach a Note to a record in another module (Candidates, Job Openings, Clients, ...).

Delete Note

note-delete

Delete a Note.

List Notes

note-list

List records in the Notes module, across every module they're attached to. Zoho restricts this endpoint to admin users.

Update Note

note-update

Update an existing Note's title and/or content.

Search Records

search-records

Search any module's records by criteria, email, phone or a free-text word. Exactly one of those four is required.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Zoho Recruit's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "zoho-recruit-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "candidate-create",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.zoho-recruit",
        "action": "candidate-create",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "fields": "<fields>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Create Candidate

    perform
    candidate-create
  • Get Candidate

    read
    candidate-get
  • List Candidates

    read
    candidate-list
  • Change Candidate Status

    perform
    candidate-status-change
  • Update Candidate

    perform
    candidate-update

+17 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Zoho Recruit, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Zoho Recruit. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "candidate-create",
  payload: {
    fields: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action candidate-create --payload '{"fields":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Zoho Recruit — without giving it Zoho Recruit's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.zoho-recruit#candidate-create",
    "input": {
      "fields": "<fields>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Zoho Recruit connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Zoho Recruit's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Zoho Recruit itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Zoho Recruit declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Zoho Recruit platform status

Reads the "Zoho Recruit" component off Zoho's StatusIQ RSS feed (us.zohostatus.com/rss). Unauthenticated and unsigned.

quota

API credit headroom