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Automate Cornerstone with Tray.ai
Create an employee in Cornerstone. Connect Cornerstone to the rest of your human resources stack with Tray.ai.
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What can you do with Cornerstone on Tray.ai?
Cornerstone is a talent management suite covering employee learning, recruiting, performance, and core HR records for large organizations. Tray.ai connects to Cornerstone through the HTTP Connector, so your workflows can call the Cornerstone API alongside the rest of your stack. API access comes through Cornerstone's partner program or API plan, so you need approved credentials first.
- Create an employee when HR completes a new hire in your HR system.
- Update an employee when their department changes in your HR system.
- Search user transcripts to confirm required training is done before IT grants system access.
- Connects through
- HTTP Connector
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
What the Cornerstone API covers
3 resources and 7 documented actions, each one a call the HTTP Connector can make from a Tray.ai workflow. Cornerstone gives API access on request, so approved credentials come first.
Employees
- Create an employee
- Update an employee
- Get an employee
Learning
- Search the learning catalog
- Search user transcripts
Reporting views
- Query a reporting view
- Get reporting view metadata
Checked against Cornerstone's own documentation on 2026-10-22
How Tray.ai makes this work
Cornerstone plugs into the whole Tray.ai platform
Intelligent Integration
Integrate and automate across 5,000+ apps, databases, APIs, and services with visual workflows, error handling, and observability.
Learn more →Agent Builder
Build AI agents that read, write, and take action in Cornerstone — with guardrails, audit, and human-in-the-loop.
Learn more →Agent Gateway for MCP
Expose Cornerstone actions as governed MCP tools — observable, rate-limited, authenticated.
Learn more →Tray Helix
Build apps on Cornerstone data with your AI assistant, then deploy, run, and govern them on Tray.ai.
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Frequently asked questions
What can a Tray.ai workflow do in Cornerstone?
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The Cornerstone API documents 7 actions across 3 resources (Employees, Learning, Reporting views). For example: Create an employee; Search the learning catalog; Query a reporting view. A workflow can make any documented call through the HTTP Connector.
How does Tray.ai authenticate with Cornerstone?
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The Cornerstone API uses OAuth 2.0. You save it once as a Tray.ai authentication, and the HTTP Connector adds it to every request.
Do I need special access to the Cornerstone API?
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Yes. Cornerstone gives API access on request, so you need approved credentials before a Tray.ai workflow can call it.
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