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)

1. In Claude, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
2. Name it Applystead and enter https://applystead.com/mcp as the remote MCP server URL. Leave OAuth empty.
3. Enable the connector in a chat and ask a job question.

ChatGPT (developer mode)

1. In ChatGPT, open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings and turn on Developer mode.
2. Under Apps & Connectors, choose Create, name it Applystead and enter https://applystead.com/mcp as the MCP server URL, with no authentication.
3. 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 links its Applystead job page and the employer's own posting.

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 support@mail.applystead.com.

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.