Applystead MCP Server

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Applystead is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 42 tools. Last commit 7 Oct 2026.

Search open jobs from employers' own career sites: roles, companies and posting status.

Uptime history 6 days of history

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

496 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 7 Oct 2026

What changed 88

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Oct 6 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_calendar, get_interviews, manage_applications and 3 more

11 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten manage_applications, manage_interviews, search_jobs

10 Oct 44 tools appeared apply_to_job, ask_otto, assistant and 41 more

10 Oct 10 tool descriptions were rewritten apply_to_job, get_calendar, get_mailbox and 7 more

10 Oct 9 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_calendar, get_mailbox, manage_answers and 6 more

10 Oct 5 tools disappeared assistant, contacts, interview_practice and 2 more

10 Oct a tool changed version

9 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten check_job_posting, get_company_jobs, search_jobs

7 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten7 times that day check_job_posting, get_company_jobs, search_jobs

and 4 more, back to 7 October 2026

Tools have disappeared from this server

A tool that vanishes takes a piece of your agent with it, and the change arrives silently. Watch this server and every such change lands in your inbox.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add jobs --transport http https://applystead.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jobs": {
      "url": "https://applystead.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.jobs]
url = "https://applystead.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jobs": {
      "url": "https://applystead.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jobs": {
      "url": "https://applystead.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 42

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

manage

manage_answers

Improve, keep, edit and delete answers in the library. Actions: improve, keep_ai_answers, edit, delete, edit_saved, delete_saved, delete_finished. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_applications

Add a job to the queue, pass on one, choose its résumé, edit its packet or rate the queue. Actions: add_job, pass, choose_resume, edit_packet, rate_queue. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_assistant

Change the interview assistant's settings, remove a paired device, and delete, file or unfile call recordings. Actions: update_settings, remove_device, delete_recording, file_recording, unfile_recording. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_calendar

Create and connect calendars, add, change and delete events, prepare replies to invitations and manage the job search schedule. Events are written to the member's own calendars; no invitations are sent. Actions: create_local, connect_caldav, import_ics, sync, choose_calendar, create_event, update_event, delete_event, prepare_rsvp, import_invitation, disconnect, update_schedule, generate_schedule, approve_schedule, discard_schedule. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_connections

Disconnect a connected app, revoke an API key or remove a webhook. Keys and webhooks are created in Agents & API. Actions: disconnect_agent, revoke_key, remove_webhook. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_contacts

Add, remove and import the member's contacts (Premium). Actions: add, remove, remove_all, import_csv. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_interview_practice

Practice interviews (Premium): create, change and delete setups and questions, and start, answer, finish, score and delete practice sessions. Actions: create_setup, update_setup, delete_setup, create_question, update_question, delete_question, start_session, answer, finish_session, cancel_session, score_session, delete_session. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_interviews

Create and update interviews and rounds, notes, transcripts, briefings, recordings, scorecards, debriefs, invites, checks, thank-you notes and next-steps or feedback notes to employers. Actions: create, update, add_round, update_round, add_correspondence, add_transcript, link_calendar, generate_briefing, attach_recording, detach_recording, score_round, add_interviewer, save_debrief, mark_invite_seen, rate_tracking, answer_check, mark_thank_you_done, draft_thank_you, draft_follow_up. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_mailbox

Organise threads, labels, settings, forwarding and drafts, and manage held replies, drafted replies, sending accounts and a custom domain order. Sending is send_email. Actions: organize, update_settings, create_label, rename_label, delete_label, set_forwarding, approve_applying_address, save_draft, delete_draft, attach_file, remove_attachment, cancel_send, discard_held_reply, dismiss_ai_reply, ai_reply_settings, sender_settings, disconnect_sender, cancel_domain_order. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_membership

Start a plan, open the payment details page, cancel the membership or a Premium trial, and buy a custom domain or API credit. Prices come from get_account membership or a get_membership preview, and pricingAcceptance is the exact value the member accepted. Payment happens on a page the member opens. Actions: start_checkout, billing_portal, cancel_upgrade_trial, cancel, cancellation_feedback, buy_domain, buy_api_credits. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_outreach

Draft and manage outreach messages to people at companies (Premium): accept the terms, draft, edit, redraft, discard, record the outcome and close a thread. Sending is send_email send_outreach. Actions: accept_terms, draft, edit, discard, regenerate, resolve, close_thread. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

manage_resume_studio

Save the résumé studio, tailor or refine a résumé for a job, and read a job description from a link. Job links and descriptions given are kept with the account. Actions: save, tailor, refine, read_job_link. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

account

delete_account

Delete the member's Applystead account: send_code emails a code, confirm deletes with it. Actions: send_code, confirm. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

get_account

The member's account: overview, membership, notifications, invites, reference lists, feedback, review, what's new and a full export. Actions: overview, membership, notifications, invites, reference, feedback, my_review, whats_new, export. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

auto

get_auto_apply

The member's Auto apply settings and résumés. Actions: settings. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

update_auto_apply

Turn Auto apply on or off, change its switches, and manage the résumés it uses. Actions: set, set_default_resume, set_resume_rules, add_resume, remove_resume. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

jobs

get_jobs

The member's job matches, newest jobs, why a job matches, the market map and company pages. Actions: matches, newest, explain_match, market_map, market_map_jobs, company. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

search_jobs

Search open jobs that employers posted on their own career sites, newest first. Every job links its Applystead job page and an Apply with Applystead link; a job's jobId queues it for a connected member with manage_applications add_job. Apply with Applystead opens an Applystead account that tailors a résumé to a job and prepares applications for the person.

profile

get_profile

The member's profile, job search preferences, saved questions and photo. Actions: profile, questions, photo. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

update_profile

Change the profile and job search, work authorization, answers and photo, or import a LinkedIn data export. Actions: update, set_work_authorization, save_answers, set_photo, set_photo_flags, remove_photo, import_linkedin_export. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

setup

get_setup

Where first-time setup stands, a résumé import's progress and setup's job previews. Actions: status, import_status, preview_matches, role_groups. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

run_setup

Import a résumé, answer setup questions, approve the applying address and finish setup. Actions: import_resume, cancel_import, save_setup_answers, approve_applying_address, finish. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

answers

get_answers

The member's answer library, finished questions, and questions about it. Actions: library, finished, ask_library. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

applications

get_applications

Applications ready for review, approve-first jobs, every application, totals, replies, one application, its packet (whose preparationId, reviewDigest and authorityDigest apply_to_job needs) and its documents. Actions: ready, approvals, applied, totals, live, replies, get, packet, document, job_page. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

apply

apply_to_job

Sends one application to the employer: the only tool that applies. It takes the preparation_id, review_digest and authority_digest of the packet the member reviewed (get_applications packet), or approve_only for a job marked approveOnly (an approve-first job with no packet yet), which Applystead prepares and sends.

ask

ask_otto

Ask Otto, Applystead's job search coach, a question about the member's search, an application or a company.

assistant

get_assistant

The interview assistant's settings, paired devices and call recordings. Actions: settings, devices, recordings, recording. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

calendar

get_calendar

The member's calendar, events, invitations found in mail, the job search schedule, and the page where the member connects a Google or Microsoft calendar. Actions: view, export_ics, event, event_context, mail_invitations, schedule, schedule_sources, connect_link. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

company

get_company_jobs

A company's open roles and company page, with its newest open jobs, each linking its Applystead job page and an Apply with Applystead link. Apply with Applystead opens an Applystead account that tailors a résumé to a job and prepares applications for the person.

connections

get_connections

Connected apps, API keys, webhooks, API balance and usage. Actions: list. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

contacts

get_contacts

The member's contacts (Premium) and one person's profile. Actions: list, person. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

insights

get_insights

The member's dashboard, stats, time-away summary, analytics and LinkedIn suggestions. Actions: dashboard, stats, away, analytics, analytics_home, analytics_search, analytics_selection, analytics_chat, linkedin_text. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

interview

get_interview_practice

Practice interviews (Premium): setups, sessions, scores and the question bank. Actions: overview, bank, get_session. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

interviews

get_interviews

The member's interviews, rounds, briefings, people, playbooks, company research, calendar feed and question sets. Actions: list, follow_ups, get, briefing, people, playbook, company_intel, calendar_feed, question_set. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

job

check_job_posting

Whether an employer's job posting link was still open when Applystead last read it, with its listed pay. A tracked posting links its Applystead job page, and an open one an Apply with Applystead link; postings Applystead does not track are reported as unknown. Apply with Applystead opens an Applystead account that tailors a résumé to a job and prepares applications for the person.

mailbox

get_mailbox

The member's Mailbox: threads, messages, attachments, contacts, settings, drafts, held replies, drafted replies, sending accounts and custom domain quotes. Actions: threads, thread, reply_address, messages, attachment, contacts, settings, applying_address, forwarding, draft, held_replies, held_reply, held_reply_attachment, ai_replies, connected_senders, connect_sender_link, domain_suggestions, check_domain. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

membership

get_membership

Previews of what a plan, term or Premium upgrade change costs, the Membership page where the member confirms such a change, and the questions cancelling asks. Actions: cancellation_questions, preview_upgrade, upgrade_link, upgrade_trial_link, preview_term, change_term_link, preview_plan_change, change_plan_link, switch_trial_plan_link. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

outreach

get_outreach

Outreach to people at companies (Premium): threads, people worth reaching with a drafted first email, suggestions, one message and the exact message a send would deliver. Actions: threads, cold_context, suggestions, get, preview. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

resume

get_resume_studio

The résumé studio's saved résumés, a master résumé built from the profile, and a résumé as a PDF or Word file; nothing is saved. Actions: get, create_from_profile, export. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

send

send_email

Send email from the member's Applystead Mailbox: drafts, replies, held replies, drafted replies and outreach, and turn automatic replies on or off. Actions: send_draft, reply, confirm_held_reply, send_ai_reply, full_auto_replies, send_outreach. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

settings

update_settings

Change notification emails, job alerts, language, insights sharing, redeem a voucher, send feedback or a review, or resend the verification email. Actions: email_preferences, job_alerts, language, insights_sharing, redeem_voucher, send_feedback, report_pay_estimate, save_review, delete_review, resend_verification_email. Call with action "help" for each action's fields.

whoami

whoami

The connected Applystead member: id, name, email and plan.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

assistant

removed 10 Oct 2026

contacts

removed 10 Oct 2026

interview_practice

removed 10 Oct 2026

outreach

removed 10 Oct 2026

resume_studio

removed 10 Oct 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://applystead.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	184 ms	8 min ago

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Applystead — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Applystead do?

It exposes 42 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: apply_to_job, ask_otto, check_job_posting, delete_account, get_account, get_answers and 36 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Applystead mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around manage, profile and auto. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Applystead working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 496 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did Applystead ever remove tools?

Yes. assistant, contacts, interview_practice, outreach and 1 more are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

How do I connect Applystead?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Applystead need an API key?

No. Applystead completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 42 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Applystead?

It answers our handshake in 496 ms on average, which is faster than 26% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Applystead open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.