Sourcer's Desk API — documentation
MCP serverSearchSourcers Desk turns your AI into a recruiting researcher. It writes recruiter-grade boolean and x-ray search strings drawn from a 20-year sourcing playbook, so you can find the right candidates faster.
Use Sourcer's Desk API — documentation in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
Free. Sign in, add Sourcer's Desk API — documentation and connect your AI. About a minute.
Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex
Then ask your AI: use Sourcer's Desk API to generate boolean search
No key or account is asked for. Not verified by us yet: Ahel has not run a call through it.
Details
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No key or account is asked for. Not verified by us yet: Ahel has not run a call through it.
Add Sourcers Desk and describe the role or candidate profile you are looking for. Your AI will return ready-to-use search strings you can run right away.
What your AI can do with it
- Build boolean search strings for candidate sourcing
- Write x-ray searches that surface profiles search engines miss
- Apply sourcing techniques from a 20-year recruiting playbook
- Tailor search strings to specific roles and skills
Install Sourcer's Desk API — documentation
The server’s own address, for the clients that take one directly. Or connect Ahel once and every client you use reads it from one address, with the account kept on Ahel rather than in each client’s config.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user sourcer-s-desk-api-documentation 'https://sourcerdesk.com/mcp'Run it once in your project, then open /mcp to approve any sign-in the server asks for.
Claude Desktop
https://sourcerdesk.com/mcpAdd a custom connector in Settings, paste this address, and approve the sign-in.
Cursor
cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=sourcer-s-desk-api-documentation&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3NvdXJjZXJkZXNrLmNvbS9tY3AifQ==Open the link and Cursor adds the server at that address.
ChatGPT
https://sourcerdesk.com/mcpIn Settings, enable Developer mode, create an MCP app, and paste this address. Your plan and workspace must allow custom apps.
Codex
codex mcp add sourcer-s-desk-api-documentation --url 'https://sourcerdesk.com/mcp'Run it once, then sign in with codex mcp login sourcer-s-desk-api-documentation if the server asks for an account.
From the project's README
As published by glennquinting/sourcerdesk-api-docs in README.md.
Pay-per-call recruiting expertise for AI agents and developers: POST a role description, get back production-grade boolean/x-ray search strings the way a 20-year recruiter actually writes them.
Live endpoint: POST https://sourcerdesk.com/api/v1/boolean
- What you get: expanded title variants (OR'd, capped where noise starts), practitioner "shibboleth" skill terms, LinkedIn x-ray strings with exact-phrase locations, open-web resume strings with area-code location groups, iteration advice.
- Pricing: 3 free calls/day/IP, then ~$0.02 per call via x402 on three rails — 0.05 XNO (feeless Nano), or $0.025 USDC on Base or Polygon.
- Quality: blind A/B-evaluated against a bare same-model LLM before launch — the playbook engine was preferred 10/10. Methodology and caveats: EVAL.md.
- For recruiters using Claude or ChatGPT: add it as an MCP connector in about 30 seconds, no wallet needed — MCP.md.
| Doc | Contents |
|---|---|
| API.md | Request/response schema, the 402 payment flow, curl and client examples |
| MCP.md | The MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT, and Claude Code |
| EVAL.md | How the blind evaluation was run, the result, and its honest limits |
| examples/ | Real request, 402 quote, and response JSON |
What this repo is (and is not)
This is the public documentation. The playbook itself — the encoded judgment the API sells — is private and is not in this repository or any public one. The engine's outputs are yours to use freely; the rules that produce them are the product.
Links
- Product site: https://sourcerdesk.com
- Machine docs: https://sourcerdesk.com/api · https://sourcerdesk.com/llms.txt
- MCP registry:
com.sourcerdesk/sourcers-desk - Nano x402 client: https://github.com/Feeless402/feeless402
- Contact: support@sourcerdesk.com
Tools it offers (2)
What this server listed when Ahel dialed its public endpoint in Sep 2026, with no key and no account of yours. The names are the server’s own.
generate_boolean_searchsourcers_desk_info
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 1
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Advanced
- Delivery
- sourcers-desk MCP server → your Ahel connector (mcp.ahel.ai) → your AI.
- Item type
- mcp-server
- Key
com-sourcerdesk-sourcers-desk- Source
- github.com/glennquinting/sourcerdesk-api-docs
- Hosted endpoint
https://sourcerdesk.com/mcp
github.com/glennquinting/sourcerdesk-api-docs