Integration · HR and recruiting
AI agents for Ashby
Search and read candidates, jobs and applications in Ashby, move an application to another interview stage, add notes, and add candidates or consider them for a job, with an API key.
- Actions
- 14
- Read
- 10
- Write
- 4
Actions
What your agents can do in Ashby
14 actions. Each one is a tool your agents can call and a step your workflows can run.
Read 10
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Search candidates
Finds candidates by email address and/or name (at least one).
List candidates
Lists candidates page by page, optionally only those created after a time (Unix milliseconds).
Get a candidate
Reads one candidate by Ashby ID.
List a candidate's notes
Lists the notes on a candidate, newest first.
List jobs
Lists jobs, optionally only those in some statuses (Draft, Open, Closed, Archived).
Get a job
Reads one job by ID, with its location and openings.
List applications
Lists applications, optionally for one job, of one status (Active, Hired, Archived, Lead) or created after a time (Unix milliseconds).
Get an application
Reads one application by ID.
List interview stages
Lists the stages of an interview plan in order (the plan ID is a job's defaultInterviewPlanId or an application's currentInterviewStage.interviewPlanId).
List archive reasons
Lists the reasons an application can be archived with.
Write 4
Create, change or send.
Create a candidate
Adds a new candidate with a full name and, optionally, a personal email, phone number, LinkedIn, GitHub and website URLs and a location.
Add a note to a candidate
Adds a plain-text note to a candidate's profile, optionally private (needs the key's private-fields permission) and optionally notifying the users who follow the candidate.
Consider a candidate for a job
Creates an application for an existing candidate on a job, in the job's default interview plan, at a given interview stage or else its first Lead stage.
Move an application to a stage
Moves an application to another interview stage of its interview plan (IDs from "List interview stages").
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Enter the API credentials from your Ashby account.
What you enter
- API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Ashby data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can search candidates, list candidates or get a candidate in Ashby, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update Ashby
Have the agent create a candidate or add a note to a candidate in Ashby as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Ashby and Slack: it can search candidates in Ashby and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
FAQ
Ashby and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Ashby?
Yes. The Ashby connector has 14 actions: 10 read and 4 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Ashby?
Enter the API credentials from your Ashby account. You'll need: API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Ashby without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 4 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use Ashby in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Ashby action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Ashby to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.