paychex

paychex is a skill for Claude Code from apideck-libraries/api-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,088 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An integration for connecting Paychex, a payroll and human-resources service, through Apideck's shared HR software API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading or synchronising employees, departments, payrolls, and time-off records in Paychex.
Why use it?
It avoids writing separate authentication, pagination, rate-limit, and retry handling for Paychex. The connector is in beta, so coverage may be incomplete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the apideck plugin — 181 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Reading or synchronising employees, departments, payrolls, and time-off records in Paychex.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/paychex
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add apideck-libraries/api-skills --skill paychex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apideck-libraries/api-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apideck, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 181 skills, 3 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,088 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00073 $0.02088
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00835
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00209

Measured 15d ago against content hash c864f58f43d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paychex scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 15d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl 'https://unify.apideck.com/connector/connectors/paychex' \
providers/claude/plugin/skills/paychex/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paychex (via Apideck)

Access Paychex through Apideck's HRIS unified API — one of 58 HRIS connectors that share the same method surface. Code you write here ports to BambooHR, Workday, Deel and 54 other HRIS connectors by changing a single serviceId string. Apideck handles auth, pagination, rate limiting, and retries so you don't write per-tenant Paychex plumbing.

Beta connector. Paychex is currently in beta on Apideck. Expect partial resource coverage and occasional mapping gaps. Always verify coverage (see below) and fall back to the Proxy API for unsupported operations.

Quick facts

At a glance

  • Implementation difficulty: moderate — Consumer Creates the App Credentials by Hand in Paychex Flex
  • Vendor partnership required: no (Paychex Developer Partner programme) — Joining gives a Paychex-provided sandbox and a production key and secret.
  • Apideck-managed credentials: not available — Each Paychex client connects with its own app credentials.
  • Account type required: A Paychex Flex client company.
  • Consumer access level: Super Admin or Security Admin in Paychex Flex (permission to manage connected applications).
  • Sandbox: available (signup) — Request it through the Developer Partner programme; Paychex provides it once approved.
  • Authentication: Client ID and secret pasted in Vault; no OAuth sign-in.
  • Webhooks: Virtual webhooks - employee created and updated events

Important to know:

  • After connecting, the consumer must grant their company access to the credentials in Paychex. Until then the company list stays empty and the Company field cannot be selected.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 15d ago Changed · +20 lines c864f58f43d2
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 136 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A ef88a5bbd435

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paychex is a skill published in the GitHub repository apideck-libraries/api-skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,088 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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