# Ceridian Dayforce

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-apideck-libraries-api-skills-ceridian-dayforce`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [apideck-libraries](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/apideck-libraries)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [apideck-libraries](https://github.com/apideck-libraries)
- **Source:** https://github.com/apideck-libraries/api-skills/tree/main/providers/claude/plugin/skills/ceridian-dayforce
- **Website:** https://developers.apideck.com/building-with-llms

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-apideck-libraries-api-skills-ceridian-dayforce
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Ceridian Dayforce (via Apideck)

Access Ceridian Dayforce 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 Ceridian Dayforce plumbing.

> **Beta connector.** Ceridian Dayforce 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

- **Apideck serviceId:** `ceridian-dayforce`
- **Unified API:** HRIS
- **Auth type:** oauth2
- **Status:** beta
- **Apideck setup guide:** [Connection guide](https://developers.apideck.com/connectors/ceridian-dayforce/docs/consumer+connection)
- **Gotchas:** [page](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/hris/ceridian-dayforce/gotchas)
- **Ceridian Dayforce docs:** https://developers.ceridian.com
- **Homepage:** https://www.ceridian.com/products/dayforce

## When to use this skill

Activate this skill when the user explicitly wants to work with **Ceridian Dayforce** — for example, "sync employees in Ceridian Dayforce" or "list time-off requests in Ceridian Dayforce". This skill teaches the agent:

1. Which Apideck unified API covers Ceridian Dayforce (HRIS)
2. The correct `serviceId` to pass on every call (`ceridian-dayforce`)
3. Ceridian Dayforce-specific auth and coverage caveats

For the full method surface (parameters, pagination, filtering), use your language SDK skill:

- [`apideck-node`](../../skills/apideck-node/), [`apideck-python`](../../skills/apideck-python/), [`apideck-dotnet`](../../skills/apideck-dotnet/), [`apideck-java`](../../skills/apideck-java/), [`apideck-go`](../../skills/apideck-go/), [`apideck-php`](../../skills/apideck-php/), or [`apideck-rest`](../../skills/apideck-rest/)

For the raw OpenAPI spec:

- **HRIS:** [https://specs.apideck.com/hris.yml](https://specs.apideck.com/hris.yml) · [API Explorer](https://developers.apideck.com/api-explorer?id=hris)

## Minimal example (TypeScript)

```typescript
import { Apideck } from "@apideck/unify";

const apideck = new Apideck({
  apiKey: process.env.APIDECK_API_KEY,
  appId: process.env.APIDECK_APP_ID,
  consumerId: "your-consumer-id",
});

// List employees in Ceridian Dayforce
const { data } = await apideck.hris.employees.list({
  serviceId: "ceridian-dayforce",
});
```

## Portable across 58 HRIS connectors

The Apideck **HRIS** unified API exposes the same methods for every connector in its catalog. Switching from Ceridian Dayforce to another HRIS connector is a one-string change — no rewrite, no new SDK.

```typescript
// Today — Ceridian Dayforce
await apideck.hris.employees.list({ serviceId: "ceridian-dayforce" });

// Tomorrow — same code, different connector
await apideck.hris.employees.list({ serviceId: "bamboohr" });
await apideck.hris.employees.list({ serviceId: "workday" });
```

This is the compounding advantage of using Apideck over integrating Ceridian Dayforce directly: code against the unified HRIS API once, gain access to every connector in it. New connectors Apideck adds become available to your app without code changes.

## Authentication

- **Type:** OAuth 2.0
- **Managed by:** Apideck Vault — Apideck handles the full OAuth dance (authorization code flow, token exchange, refresh). Never ask the user for API keys or tokens directly.
- **User setup:** Users authorize via the Vault modal. Connection state progresses `available → added → authorized → callable`.
- **Token refresh:** automatic. Expired tokens are refreshed transparently on the next API call.

**Setup guide:** Apideck publishes a step-by-step guide for registering an OAuth app / configuring credentials for Ceridian Dayforce — see [https://developers.apideck.com/connectors/ceridian-dayforce/docs/consumer+connection](https://developers.apideck.com/connectors/ceridian-dayforce/docs/consumer+connection). Use that as the authoritative source when walking users through connection setup.

See [`apideck-best-practices`](../../skills/apideck-best-practices/) for Vault setup, connection lifecycle, and handling re-auth flows.

## Verifying coverage

Not every HRIS operation is supported by every connector. Always verify before assuming a method works:

```bash
curl 'https://unify.apideck.com/connector/connectors/ceridian-dayforce' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${APIDECK_API_KEY}" \
  -H "x-apideck-app-id: ${APIDECK_APP_ID}"
```

See [`apideck-connector-coverage`](../../skills/apideck-connector-coverage/) for patterns around `UnsupportedOperationError` and connector-specific fallbacks.

## Escape hatch: Proxy API

When an endpoint isn't covered by the HRIS unified API, use Apideck's Proxy to call Ceridian Dayforce directly — Apideck injects auth headers and handles token refresh. Set `x-apideck-downstream-url` to the target endpoint on Ceridian Dayforce's own API:

```bash
curl 'https://unify.apideck.com/proxy' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${APIDECK_API_KEY}" \
  -H "x-apideck-app-id: ${APIDECK_APP_ID}" \
  -H "x-apideck-consumer-id: ${CONSUMER_ID}" \
  -H "x-apideck-service-id: ceridian-dayforce" \
  -H "x-apideck-downstream-url: " \
  -H "x-apideck-downstream-method: GET"
```

See [Ceridian Dayforce's API docs](https://developers.ceridian.com) for available endpoints.

## Sibling connectors

Other **HRIS** connectors that share this unified API surface (same method signatures, just change `serviceId`):

[`bamboohr`](../bamboohr/), [`workday`](../workday/), [`deel`](../deel/) *(beta)*, [`hibob`](../hibob/), [`personio`](../personio/), [`adp-ihcm`](../adp-ihcm/) *(beta)*, [`adp-workforce-now`](../adp-workforce-now/) *(beta)*, [`paychex`](../paychex/) *(beta)*, and 49 more.

## See also

- [Apideck connection guide for Ceridian Dayforce](https://developers.apideck.com/connectors/ceridian-dayforce/docs/consumer+connection)
- [HRIS OpenAPI spec](https://specs.apideck.com/hris.yml) · [API Explorer](https://developers.apideck.com/api-explorer?id=hris)
- [`apideck-connector-coverage`](../../skills/apideck-connector-coverage/) — programmatic coverage checks
- [`apideck-best-practices`](../../skills/apideck-best-practices/) — architecture, Vault, pagination, error handling
- [`apideck-node`](../../skills/apideck-node/) — TypeScript / Node SDK patterns
- [Ceridian Dayforce official docs](https://developers.ceridian.com)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [apideck-libraries](https://github.com/apideck-libraries)
- **Source:** [apideck-libraries/api-skills](https://github.com/apideck-libraries/api-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://developers.apideck.com/building-with-llms

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** yes
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** yes
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-apideck-libraries-api-skills-ceridian-dayforce
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