Applystead MCP server
Search open jobs from employers' own career sites, straight from ChatGPT, Claude or any MCP client.
Applystead's MCP server is a remote, read-only Model Context Protocol server. It searches the open roles Applystead publishes from employers' own applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and more), lists a company's open jobs, and checks whether a job posting is still open. No install, no API key, no sign-in.
- Server URL:
https://applystead.com/mcp - Transport: Streamable HTTP (stateless JSON responses)
- Authentication: none (the data is public)
- Docs: https://applystead.com/developers
Add it
Claude (custom connector)
- In Claude, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
- Name it
Applysteadand enterhttps://applystead.com/mcpas the remote MCP server URL. Leave OAuth empty. - Enable the connector in a chat and ask a job question.
ChatGPT (developer mode)
- In ChatGPT, open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings and turn on Developer mode.
- Under Apps & Connectors, choose Create, name it
Applysteadand enterhttps://applystead.com/mcpas the MCP server URL, with no authentication. - Select the app in a chat. Results render in an interactive job list.
Other MCP clients
Any client that supports remote Streamable HTTP servers works. For example, in a JSON client config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"applystead": { "type": "http", "url": "https://applystead.com/mcp" }
}
}
Try it with curl:
curl -s https://applystead.com/mcp -H 'content-type: application/json' \
-H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_jobs","arguments":{"query":"data engineer","limit":3}}}'
Tools
All tools are read-only and idempotent. Every job opens on its Applystead job page, with Apply with Applystead.
| Tool | Arguments | Returns |
|---|---|---|
search_jobs | query? (up to 120 chars), remote_country? (ISO 2-letter code), company? (name or slug), kind? (internship or new-grad), pay_listed? (boolean), posted_within_hours? (1–720), limit? (1–20, default 10) | Matching open jobs, newest first |
get_company_jobs | company (name or slug) | The company (name, ATS, open roles, company page) and its 10 newest jobs |
check_job_posting | url (https job posting URL) | Whether the posting is open, closed, unknown or unsupported |
Example prompts
- "Find remote data engineer jobs in the US posted in the last 3 days."
- "Which 2027 software engineering internships list pay?"
- "What jobs is Stripe hiring for right now?"
- "Is this job posting still open? https://boards.greenhouse.io/..."
- "Show new-grad backend roles at companies using Ashby."
Privacy
Requests are not stored and tool arguments are not logged. Answers contain only what Applystead's public job and company pages already show; no personal data is requested. Privacy policy: https://applystead.com/privacy
Support
Email [email protected].
License
This README and the configuration files in this repository are released under the MIT License. The server itself is operated by Applystead at https://applystead.com/mcp.