Human Resources: Candidate Screening Packet Review with Claude Code: MCP Tool Boundary

A production playbook for candidate screening packet review in human resources operations using Claude Code: mcp tool boundary, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.

Audience: Recruiting operations teams

The problem

Recruiting operations teams need candidate screening packet review to run repeatedly against resumes, interview notes, job descriptions, scorecards, and compliance rules. In human resources operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.

Implementation path

Expose only the MCP tools needed for candidate screening packet review, validate tool arguments, keep credentials in the owning service, and log each call outside the sandbox.

Tradeoffs and failure modes

Narrow tool boundaries reduce agent flexibility, but make the integration reviewable and supportable. For candidate screening packet review, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.

Tool policy

tool: hr-candidate-screening-packet_lookup
agent: Claude Code
input_scope: /skill/.argo/inputs
credential_owner: broker
log_arguments: true
network_policy: allowlisted

Run this on Argo