# Remote (slim)

> Remote is a global employment platform covering employer of record, payroll, contractors and HR records. Its REST API, hosted MCP server and CLI let an agent read and update employments, time off, timesheets, expenses, onboarding and documents.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md (~8,700 tokens) · this version ~2,130 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

**BB · 70.7/100 · rank #142 of 842 · #1 in HR & employee operations · agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: The REST API has 303 operations in a public OpenAPI document, 78 OAuth scopes split into read and write, a sandbox issued by email with no card, and a hosted MCP server using OAuth with PKCE. The REST changelog link redirects to a login page, and writes have no idempotency key.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Remote Technology, Inc. · category: HR & employee operations · legal entity: Remote Europe Holding B.V. · provenance 85/100
- Endpoint: `https://gateway.remote.com` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under Remote's terms of use. The remote-for-ai plugin and the Remote CLI repository on GitHub are MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- API: REST at https://gateway.remote.com/v1, JSON only. 303 operations (156 GET, 85 POST, 38 PUT, 16 PATCH, 8 DELETE) and 116 webhook events in the OpenAPI 3.0 document, with SCIM 2.0 users and groups at /v1/scim/v2
- HR coverage: Employments (list, create, update, invite), personal details, departments, managers and company structure, custom fields, time off (types, leave policies, balances, create, approve, decline, cancel), timesheets, expenses, onboarding and pre-onboarding documents, offboarding and resignations, contract amendments, payslips and documents
- MCP server: Hosted at https://mcp.remote.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, sandbox at https://mcp.remote-sandbox.com/mcp. OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and dynamic client registration. Read tools across employments, contracts, payroll, time off, organisation structure, timesheets and invoices. Write tools for employee self-service. Tested with Claude Desktop, claude.ai, Claude Code and Cursor
- Credentials: Customer API token (`ra_live_` or `ra_test_`), partner OAuth 2.0 (authorisation code, client credentials, refresh token), or browser sign-in for MCP and the CLI. All Bearer, in the `Authorization` header
- Scopes: 78 in the spec, such as employment:read, timeoff:write and expense:write. Write implies read. Seven category scopes, plus all:read and all:write. Existing tokens can't be widened
- Rate limits: 300 requests a minute per company for customer tokens, 1,000 a minute per client ID for partners. `x-ratelimit-count`, `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` (milliseconds) on every authenticated response, 429 on excess
- Retries: No idempotency key. `external_id` on employments for deduplication. The vendor's CLI skill notes mark approve, decline, cancel, PATCH and PUT as safe to retry and creates as unsafe
- Errors: 403 for a missing scope names every scope that would satisfy the endpoint. 422 carries field errors. Body shapes differ between endpoints (`message`, `errors` as a list or keyed by field, or `code` with `message`)
- Pagination: `page` and `page_size` (default 20, maximum 100) with `current_page`, `total_count` and `total_pages` in the response. Filters such as `status`, `email` and `employment_id`, and `sort_by` with `order` on some lists
- Sandbox: https://gateway.remote-sandbox.com, isolated from production. A seeded demo company and `ra_test_` token arrive after an email verification and last 14 days. 21 sandbox-only operations approve or bypass steps a Remote admin would handle
- Webhooks: 116 events in the spec. Each callback gets a `signing_key`, and deliveries are signed in `X-Remote-Signature`. The CLI lists delivery history and replays events
- Clients: Remote CLI `remotecli` v0.2.0 (28 September 2026), binaries for macOS on Apple Silicon and Linux x86_64, source not public. Remote Flows SDK @remoteoss/remote-flows 1.60.0 (8 October 2026), a React package for embedded flows. remote-for-ai plugin with eight skills
- Certifications: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 and CSA STAR Level 1 per remote.com and trust.remote.com. Hosted on AWS
- Status: status.remote.com on Better Stack, with Website, Platform and API components and uptime figures
- Prices: Payroll $29 per seat per month; Contractor Management $29 per seat per month; Contractor Management Plus $99 per seat per month; PEO $99 per seat per month; Contractor of Record $325 per seat per month; Employer of Record $699 per seat per month

- Scores: Reliability 96, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 78, Agent ergonomics 57, Security & auth 74, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 72, Transparency & trust 68 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded on the hosted REST API at gateway.remote.com, with the MCP server at mcp.remote.com. · Schema & documentation, An OpenAPI 3.0 document answers at gateway.remote.com/v1/docs/openapi.json with 303 operations and 116 webhook events. · Agent ergonomics, The MCP tool list needs a signed-in Remote account, so its size wasn't read. · Security & auth, Customer tokens are named, scoped from a catalogue of 78 scopes, revocable and sent only in the `Authorization` header. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, The newest dated release is Remote Flows SDK v1.60.0 on 8 October 2026. The REST API has no readable public changelog (30). · Transparency & trust, Editorial half only.
- Sources: 36, open questions: 12, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: hr.employees, hr.time-off, hr.onboarding, hr.org, hr.documents
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/remote.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/remote.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote from a page on remote.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/remoteoss/remote-for-ai, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Match the token prefix to the host. `ra_test_` works only on https://gateway.remote-sandbox.com and `ra_live_` only on https://gateway.remote.com
2. Stay under 300 requests a minute per company for customer tokens, shared by every token, and read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` (milliseconds)
3. Check for an existing record before retrying a create, or set `external_id` on employments and treat a 422 for a duplicate as success
4. Fetch the country form schema (`GET /v1/countries/{country_code}/{form}`) before writing employment data. Country codes are three-letter ISO
5. Use the REST API for unattended work. The MCP server needs a browser sign-in and its write tools cover employee self-service only

## Connect

```bash
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/remoteoss/remote-cli/main/install.sh | sh
```

```bash
curl https://gateway.remote-sandbox.com/v1/employments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REMOTE_API_TOKEN"
```

```bash
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http remote-com-mcp https://mcp.remote.com/mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/remote

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