Clino: Swiss household employment

Clino MCP server: Swiss household employment

A free, read-only Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants the rules, rates and deadlines for employing household help in Switzerland (cleaner, nanny, carer), for all 26 cantons, with the official source behind every figure.

Endpoint: https://clino.ch/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in, no API key) Docs and live demo: clino.ch/en/mcp Official MCP Registry: ch.clino/household-employment

Ask your assistant things like:

• "I want to hire a cleaner in Zurich, 6 hours a week at CHF 30. What does it cost me and what do I have to do?"
• "Our nanny starts in Geneva on 1 November, 20 hours a week. Give me the plan with dates."
• "Is CHF 22 an hour legal for a cleaner in Basel?"
• "In which canton is a household employee cheapest for the employer?"

The answers come from the same calculator and canton data that run clino.ch, checked against the official sources (AHV/IV leaflets, cantonal minimum-wage laws, NAV standard contracts, compensation offices).

Connect

Generic (mcpServers):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clino": { "url": "https://clino.ch/mcp" }
  }
}

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json):

{
  "servers": {
    "clino": { "type": "http", "url": "https://clino.ch/mcp" }
  }
}

Tools

All tools are read-only (readOnlyHint: true), return structured content with an output schema, and answer in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese.

Two prompts are included: hiring_plan (plan for employing someone) and check_my_wage (for workers: is my wage legal, what should my payslip show).

See examples/ for full requests and responses.

Open data

Clino's compilation of the figures the server uses is published here under CC BY 4.0 (LICENSE). Attribution: "Clino (clino.ch)" with a link to https://clino.ch/en/sources. General information, not legal advice, provided without warranty.

What the licence covers: the selection, structure, labels and values as Clino compiled them. It does not cover the documents the figures come from. Laws and ordinances are quoted from the official collections. Quotes from other publications, such as the AHV/IV leaflets, are short citations with their source, and those texts stay under their publishers' terms.

Rates year 2026, last verified against the official sources on the date in each file. This is a snapshot; the always-current files are on clino.ch, built from the same engine as the server: official-figures.csv, official-figures.json, canton-summary.csv. Corrections are welcome as issues.

The human-readable version of the sources is at clino.ch/en/sources.

To cite the dataset: Clino (2026). Swiss household employment: official figures and canton rules 2026. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084533 (all versions; this release: 10.5281/zenodo.23084534).

Privacy

The server needs no account and has no access to the assistant's conversations, memory or files. The details a tool call sends (postcode, wage, hours) are used only to compute the answer and are not stored. The usage log keeps the tool name, canton, language, role and the client's name and version, with no IP address and no free text. Links in the answers carry utm_source=mcp, so a sign-up through one keeps that origin. Full text: clino.ch/en/privacy.

Limits

General information, not legal advice. Figures for 2026. The server prepares nothing and files nothing: registration with the compensation office, payslips and declarations remain the household's own steps.

About Clino

Clino helps private households in Switzerland employ a cleaner, nanny or carer legally: it prepares the employment contract and the monthly payslips, calculates the contributions, guides the registration with the compensation office and produces the annual wage declaration. Free tools: salary calculator, employment contract, registration by canton.

Contact: clino.ch/en/contact