@hirejack/mcp

Model Context Protocol server that exposes HireJack's tech job market intelligence to MCP-compatible clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, etc.) — tech jobs, companies, skills, salaries, hiring trends.

Quick start

Claude Code:

claude mcp add hirejack -- npx -y @hirejack/mcp

Claude Desktop — edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hirejack": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@hirejack/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop and ask away (see Example prompts).

The npm package uses stdio transport — no auth, runs locally as a subprocess, and the five public tools work out of the box.

claude.ai / Claude Desktop connector (all 31 tools): add https://hirejack.com/api/mcp as a custom connector (Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector), sign in with your HireJack account when prompted, and the full Pro/Premium/Analyst intelligence surface lights up — tier-gated server-side to your subscription.

Example prompts

Job search (public, no account):

• "Find remote senior backend roles paying $200K+ that sponsor visas"
• "What is Stripe currently hiring? Break it down by team."
• "Show me staff-level ML jobs in New York with published salary ranges"
• "Which companies are hiring Rust engineers right now?"

Market research (public, no account):

• "Which fintech companies are scaling hiring fastest this month?"
• "What skills are trending in tech right now?"
• "Compare the tech stacks of Datadog and Grafana Labs"
• "What's the median advertised salary for senior data engineers?"

Career intelligence (Pro/Premium, via the hosted connector):

• "Score my fit for this posting and tell me what's missing: hirejack.com/jobs/…"
• "Which skill should I learn next to unlock the most jobs?"
• "Where does my salary sit vs the market for staff platform engineers?"
• "Rewrite my resume bullets for this Anthropic role"

Analyst (historical/segmentation, via the hosted connector):

• "Which companies' hiring grew >50% in the last quarter from a real base?"
• "Show Nvidia's hiring trajectory over the last 12 months"
• "What skills are climbing consistently from a low base — early signals only"

Slash commands (MCP prompts)

Clients that support MCP prompts (Claude Desktop, Cursor) surface these as slash commands. All four are built only on the tools that work without an account, so they never dead-end on an auth error:

The hosted endpoint serves a different, personalized set (career check-ins, interview prep, match-scored role hunts) because those need an authenticated profile.

Resources

The server exposes HireJack's controlled vocabulary as MCP resources:

Read these before filtering. search_jobs.skill substring-matches the canonical names, so Kubernetes returns jobs while K8s returns none — and update_preferences.desired_roles expects titleId values from the roles resource.

Transports

Tools

Public (no auth required):

Pro tier (requires authenticated HireJack user with pro or higher):

Premium tier (requires premium):

Analyst (dedicated Analyst tier — $49/mo founding pricing; free for working journalists in exchange for a linked citation):

Account & profile (any authenticated HireJack account — reads and writes on the user's own data):

Unlike the website's toggle endpoints, these use explicit, idempotent actions (state is checked first), so an agent retrying a "save" can never silently unsave. The write tools (save_job, watch_company, track_application, update_preferences) are annotated readOnlyHint: false so MCP clients ask for approval appropriately.

Pro+ tools are thin wrappers over the website's existing intelligence Lambdas. Tier gating happens server-side in those Lambdas — the MCP server just forwards the user's identity. If the user lacks the required tier, the API returns 403 and the tool surfaces a clear upgrade hint.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/TVLSS/hirejack-mcp
cd hirejack-mcp
npm install
npm run build       # tsc → dist/
node dist/index.js  # waits on stdin/stdout for JSON-RPC

Releasing

Publishing is automated by GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/release.yml). Pushing a version tag builds, publishes to npm, and updates the MCP Registry:

npm version patch          # bumps package.json + creates the vX.Y.Z tag
git push && git push --tags

The workflow verifies the tag matches package.json, then runs npm publish (using the NPM_TOKEN repo secret) and a best-effort MCP Registry update via GitHub OIDC. Keep server.json's version in step with package.json.

Configuration

The npm package ships the stdio transport only. The hosted HTTP+OAuth endpoint at https://hirejack.com/api/mcp is run separately by HireJack and not implemented in this repo.

Project layout

src/
├── index.ts            # stdio entry point
├── registry.ts         # transport-agnostic tool registry
├── prompts.ts          # slash commands (public-tool-only by design)
├── resources.ts        # controlled vocabulary (skills, roles)
├── lib/
│   ├── api.ts          # HireJack REST client
│   ├── format.ts       # tool result helpers
│   └── proAuth.ts      # Pro+ auth check (returns "use hosted endpoint" in stdio)
└── tools/              # 29 files, 31 registered tools

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Support

• Issues / feature requests: https://github.com/TVLSS/hirejack-mcp/issues
• General feedback: https://hirejack.com/feedback.html
• Site / product: https://hirejack.com