Reactive Resume

What Reactive Resume does

Reactive Resume is an open-source resume and cover-letter application with remote MCP tools for career-document and job-search workflows. The MCP interface extends the application’s existing capabilities to AI agents, covering document management, imports, exports, resume checks, and application workflows.

The underlying application supports resumes, standalone cover letters, saved job postings, contacts, notes, follow-ups, interviews, outcomes, and the documents sent with an application. This makes the MCP server relevant for agents that need to work across both document preparation and application tracking rather than only generating resume text.

How it works

An MCP-compatible client connects to Reactive Resume’s remote MCP interface and invokes tools for supported operations. The server works with the data and workflows available in the application, including resume and letter records, imported source files, exported documents, checks, and job applications.

Resume-related operations can use Reactive Resume’s document library, which provides search, tags, sorting, and version history. Application workflows can cover records that move from saved opportunities through stages such as offer, along with related contacts, notes, follow-ups, interview dates, and outcomes.

The wider application provides live resume previews, multiple templates, formatting controls, readability checks, job-posting keyword matching, and checks against exported PDFs. It can also import Reactive Resume JSON, JSON Resume, LinkedIn exports, PDF files, and Word files, and export resumes and letters as PDF, DOCX, Markdown, or JSON. The MCP server is described as covering imports, exports, and checks, making these application capabilities useful context when planning agent workflows.

Tools and capabilities

The MCP server supports these areas:

• Managing resume and cover-letter documents
• Importing supported resume data and files
• Exporting resumes and letters in supported formats
• Running resume checks
• Working with job application workflows

Reactive Resume also supports tailoring a resume and drafting a cover letter for a saved job, tracking application contacts and follow-ups, scheduling interviews, and importing or exporting applications as CSV. These features provide practical targets for agents automating job-search administration.

Limitations and notes

Reactive Resume is available as a self-hostable application, including deployment with Docker, Vercel, or Cloudflare Workers. The application is released under the MIT license and states that users own their data.

Some application capabilities depend on additional services or providers. Word imports require a connected provider, while optional AI features use a provider selected by the user. Optional web search can use Firecrawl, Tavily, or Exa, and provider, hosting, or related service usage may incur separate costs. Those dependencies are relevant when an MCP workflow includes AI-assisted writing, web search, or Word import rather than only document management and exports.