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 Applystead and enter https://applystead.com/mcp as 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 Applystead and enter https://applystead.com/mcp as 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:

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "applystead": { "type": "http", "url": "https://applystead.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Try it with curl:

Terminal

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 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.