Clino: Swiss household employment
Hiring plan with dates, cost, net wage, minimum wage and rules for Swiss household employment.
Install
Add this to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; VS Code and others use the same "mcpServers" shape).
claude mcp add --transport http clino-swiss-household-employment 'https://clino.ch/mcp'{
"mcpServers": {
"clino-swiss-household-employment": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://clino.ch/mcp"
}
}
}Documentation
From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.
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
| Client | How |
|---|---|
| Claude (claude.ai, Desktop) | Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL https://clino.ch/mcp |
| ChatGPT | Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: developer mode on, then Create → URL https://clino.ch/mcp, no authentication |
| Claude Code | claude mcp add --transport http clino https://clino.ch/mcp |
| Cursor | One-click install or the JSON below in ~/.cursor/mcp.json |
| VS Code | One-click install or .vscode/mcp.json below |
| Gemini CLI | gemini extensions install https://github.com/salvador-creator/clino-mcp |
| Other clients | Any client that speaks Streamable HTTP: URL https://clino.ch/mcp |
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.
| Tool | What it answers |
|---|---|
get_hiring_checklist | The plan for one case: steps with real dates (registration deadline, first payslip, annual declaration), cost, net wage, minimum-wage check, insurance, the canton's forms |
estimate_employer_cost | Monthly and annual employer cost and the worker's net wage, line by line (AHV/IV/EO, ALV, FAK, UVG, withholding tax, BVG), simplified or ordinary procedure |
compare_cantons | The same job priced in all 26 cantons |
get_minimum_wage | The binding floor for household work: cantonal minimum wage (GE, NE, JU, TI, BS) or the NAV standard contract, by skill level |
get_canton_rules | One canton: compensation office and its registration form, contribution rates, family allowances, sick pay scale, daily sickness insurance (KTG), withholding tax, childcare deduction |
get_employer_guide | What a household employer has to do, step by step, by role (cleaner, nanny, carer) |
get_official_sources | The official documents behind the figures, with the date each was checked and, where recorded, the sentence that states the value |
search / fetch | Search and read Clino's canton pages, guides and source notes (the pair ChatGPT connectors expect) |
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.
| File | Content |
|---|---|
data/official-figures-2026.csv / .json | 151 figures (contribution rates, thresholds, minimum wages, allowances), each with source document, URL and verification date. 131 also carry the sentence of the source that states the value. The confidence column says how each was checked: verified (129), carried forward from an earlier check without a quote (20), derived (1), verified-basis-inferred (1) |
data/canton-summary-2026.csv | One row per canton: compensation office, family allowance fund rate, admin fee, child and education allowances, minimum wage from 5 h/week, KTG obligation, sick pay scale |
data/canton-rules-2026.json | The full canton rules as the server returns them, 26 cantons |
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
Frequently asked questions
What is Clino: Swiss household employment?
Hiring plan with dates, cost, net wage, minimum wage and rules for Swiss household employment.
How do I install Clino: Swiss household employment?
It runs as a remote server. In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http clino-swiss-household-employment 'https://clino.ch/mcp'. For other clients, paste the JSON configuration from this page into their MCP settings.
Does Clino: Swiss household employment need an API key?
Its registry entry lists no required key or secret. Some features may still need an account with the service it connects to.
Is Clino: Swiss household employment open source?
Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the CC-BY-4.0 license.
Who maintains Clino: Swiss household employment?
It is published by salvador-creator. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.
From the official MCP Registry. Listing is not an endorsement: review a server's code and permissions before giving it access to your data.