Perfcycle MCP Server

Connect your tools to Claude Cowork. Add Perfcycle. Put your project updates and performance reviews on autopilot.

Claude gets full access to create, refine, and manage your reviews, project updates, peer feedback, templates, and career highlights — 16 tools and 8 pre-built workflows that turn your connected services into career documentation.

How It Works

Connect — Add the Perfcycle MCP server to Claude Cowork alongside your other connectors (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Calendar). Claude now has access to both your work tools and your Perfcycle career data. A single setup command surveys your ecosystem, calibrates what matters for your role and level, and configures scheduled tasks — weekly updates, quarterly review prep, stakeholder briefs — tailored to your cadence.

Automate — Claude gathers raw context from your connected tools, but Perfcycle does the heavy lifting: extracting quantifiable impact from routine work, mapping accomplishments to company values and competency frameworks, surfacing metrics leadership cares about, and structuring everything into formats that move careers. Clarifying questions push deeper — Claude researches gaps across your tools, then refines until the output is specific, evidence-backed, and compelling.

Accumulate — Every project update feeds into your next review. Career highlights are extracted automatically. When review season comes, your review practically writes itself from months of documented work — specific metrics, concrete examples, aligned to company values.

Setup

  1. Go to claude.ai > Settings > Connectors
  2. Click Add custom connector
  3. Enter these settings: Name: Perfcycle URL: https://www.perfcycle.ai/mcp Client ID: ZQQ_ZYJoHWIbFSaXW7Ew-dCs7LjbzUrQqmFaU0kyJm8 Client Secret: (leave blank)
  4. Click Add — you'll be redirected to Perfcycle to log in and authorize
  5. After authorization, Perfcycle's 16 tools and 8 pre-built workflows appear in Claude

Works with any Perfcycle account. Free plan includes 3 project updates/month. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited reviews, updates, and the full automation pipeline.

Tools (16)

Context & Templates

prepare_review_context — Context checklist for content creation
get_profile_summary — Your role, industry, plan
list_templates — Browse review and update templates
create_template — Save a format for reuse (or extract from an existing update)

Content Retrieval

list_reviews — Browse performance & peer reviews
get_review — Full review content and drafts
list_project_updates — Browse project updates
get_project_update — Full update content
list_career_highlights — Auto-extracted achievements

Content Creation

create_performance_review — 17 parameters including project update selection and templates
create_project_update — Email, Slack, executive brief, newsletter
create_peer_review — Relationship-calibrated peer feedback

Refinement

refine_review — Iterate on performance and peer review drafts
refine_project_update — Improve update drafts with feedback
generate_clarifying_questions — Gap analysis with source hints
generate_update_questions — Gap analysis for updates

Pre-Built Workflows (8)

These appear as prompts in Claude — select one to start a guided workflow.

quarterly_review Full review with context gathering, project update selection, and refinement
self_assessment Comprehensive annual self-assessment pulling all data from the year
review_from_updates Build a review directly from your existing Perfcycle project updates
weekly_update Weekly status update with template suggestions
stakeholder_update Monthly executive brief for leadership
peer_feedback Peer review with evidence gathering from connected services
save_update_template Extract a reusable template from a finished update
setup_automated_pipeline Full onboarding — survey your tools, calibrate what matters, set up recurring tasks

Automation

The setup_automated_pipeline workflow configures your entire system:

  1. Survey — checks what services you have connected and what's already in Perfcycle
  2. Calibrate — defines what merits capture vs. noise based on your role and seniority level
  3. Schedule — proposes recurring tasks (weekly updates, pre-review prep) for you to set up in Cowork
  4. Template — creates reusable templates from your best existing updates
  5. Verify — runs the full pipeline once to confirm quality before going live

After setup, your career documentation maintains itself — weekly updates happen on schedule, career highlights accumulate automatically, and review season is just a prompt away.

Authentication

Perfcycle uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. When you connect, you'll be redirected to log in and approve permissions. Tokens refresh automatically. You can revoke access anytime from Perfcycle Settings.

Examples

Example 1: "Set up my performance documentation"

What happens: Claude surveys which tools you have connected, reviews your role and seniority, asks about your review cadence and career goals, then configures the whole system — scheduled weekly updates, quarterly review prep, templates extracted from your best past work. One conversation, full autopilot.

Example 2: "Write my Q2 performance review"

What happens: Claude gathers your project updates from Q2, searches Slack for announcements and shoutouts, pulls meeting transcripts, checks your company wiki for the review rubric. It generates a draft, identifies 5 gaps in the evidence, researches answers across your tools, and refines until the review is specific, metrics-backed, and aligned to company values. Career highlights are auto-extracted.

Example 3: "Write a peer review for Sarah — she's on my team and led the platform migration"

What happens: Claude searches for shared project context, Slack conversations, and retrospective notes. It asks about your working relationship and specific observations, then generates a balanced review calibrated to the peer relationship — strengths with evidence, growth areas with actionable suggestions. You refine with feedback until it's right.

Example 4: "Draft a stakeholder update on the infrastructure project for my VP"

What happens: Claude pulls recent project data from your connected tools, checks your career highlights for relevant metrics, and generates an executive brief focused on outcomes and decisions — not activities. The update is saved to your Perfcycle dashboard and feeds into your next performance review.

Example 5: Scheduled — "Every Friday at 4pm, write my weekly update"

What happens: Each Friday, Claude automatically gathers your week's Slack messages, meetings, and completed work, checks for an existing update (so it doesn't create duplicates), and generates a polished update using your saved template. It shows up in your dashboard. Over time, these updates become the raw material for your next review.

Privacy

See our privacy policy. Perfcycle does not collect extraneous conversation data — only the content you create and the metadata needed to serve it.

Support

Email: support@perfcycle.ai