FoundRole — AI Job Search & Application Tracker MCP for Claude & ChatGPT

FoundRole MCP Server — AI Job Search in ChatGPT, Claude & Cursor

Ask ChatGPT or Claude for jobs and get real openings back — each one checked for whether it's still real, what it actually pays, and whether the company sponsors visas. The FoundRole MCP server connects your AI assistant to FoundRole's live job board, application tracker, and career knowledge base, so the whole job search runs inside the chat you already use.

Sign in once — your assistant handles it. The first time your AI calls FoundRole it opens a standard OAuth sign-in; approve it once in the browser and that covers everything: search, fact-checks, the tracker, reminders, and alerts. There is no API key to copy or rotate, and the account is free.

Add it in one click: ChatGPT plugin · Claude connector · Cursor · VS Code — or any other MCP client.

What your assistant can do

• Search live jobs by asking, in any country. Openings straight from employers' own career pages and hiring systems across 40+ industries, most of them re-checked every hour — jobs near you within the distance you set, remote and work-from-home jobs open to your country, full-time or part-time. Natural language maps onto real filters — job title, location, company, salary range, posting date: _"remote React jobs in NYC paying over $130k posted this week."_
• Not sure which title to search? Describe the work in your own words and FoundRole shows the roles that match, with how many open jobs each has where you're looking. Pick one and it's saved to your account, so later searches and recommendations look for exactly that role.
• Get every posting fact-checked — free. Before you spend an evening on an application, three questions get answered with the evidence behind each call:
• Is anyone actually hiring? Ghost-posting risk — whether the posting has sat open for months, comes through a staffing agency, or reads like it's fishing for resumes.
• Am I being underpaid? The posted pay against pay advertised over the last 12 months on the closest match with enough postings that state pay — the same role in the same area when there are enough, otherwise the same role statewide or nationwide, or the wider occupation — and, when a posting hides its range, an estimate from those postings that names the match it used.
• Would they sponsor me? Whether the company has sponsored visas before, from the visa filings employers make with the U.S. Department of Labor, with the wages they filed.
• See how well you fit. Match scoring against your resume and profile, plus personalized job recommendations ranked by fit.
• See what hiring software reads off your resume — free. Ask, and you get back the version of you a parser extracts: job title, years, recognized skills, sections, contact details — plus what it loses on the way. It's the mechanical read, deterministic and repeatable, so the answer doesn't drift between asks. Paste the text into the chat, or check the resume already on your account.
• Research before you commit. Dig into companies, industry sectors, and hiring by location to decide where to aim.
• Compare roles side by side. _"Compare these two"_ lines up fit, pay, sponsorship, and posting risk at once — so the choice stops being a feeling.
• Paste a job from anywhere. LinkedIn, a careers page, a link a friend sent — paste the posting into the chat and it gets the same checks, and can sit in your tracker alongside FoundRole listings. Your assistant reads the text you provide; nothing crawls the site for you.
• Stop losing track of applications. Save jobs to your Kanban application tracker and move them through Saved → Applied → Interviewing → Offered by asking, then archive each one with how it ended — hired, rejected, ghosted, or withdrawn. Attach notes, tags, the salary offered, and deadlines. The same board shows up in the web app.
• Never miss a follow-up. Set a reminder on any tracked job and get an email with a calendar (.ics) invite for Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar.
• Let the search come to you. Subscribe a search to recurring email alerts — daily, weekly, or monthly — so new matches land in your inbox. Ask to list, change, or cancel them the same way.
• Ask the awkward questions too. Interview prep, salary negotiation, resume tactics, company research — answers grounded in FoundRole's knowledge base, with the sources linked.
• See results as real panels, not text walls. In clients that support MCP Apps (ChatGPT among them), search results, job details, and your tracker render as interactive panels right in the chat.

It's the same account and data as FoundRole.com — the MCP server just lets your AI drive it.

Free vs Pro

Search, the fact-checks on every posting, the tracker, reminders, and alerts are free with no usage limits. Screening filters work on every account: ask for remote-only, sponsors-only, a salary floor, risky postings hidden, a minimum match, specific benefits or employers, and your assistant filters the list before you ever see it — and tells you which filters ran. A free account gets the first few jobs that pass those filters, plus a count of how many more do; Pro returns the whole filtered list. Searches without screening filters come back in full on every account.

New here? The FoundRole AI Search guide walks through connecting each client step by step, with an FAQ.

Setup

Two ways to connect, depending on your client. Either way, your client opens a FoundRole sign-in the first time it connects — approve it once and you're set.

Option 1 — Remote server (recommended)

Point your client at the FoundRole MCP endpoint:

https://www.foundrole.com/mcp

Most modern clients — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, VS Code — speak remote MCP (Streamable HTTP) natively, so this is all the configuration there is. In ChatGPT and Claude you don't even need the address: FoundRole Jobs is listed in their directories (see below).

Option 2 — stdio bridge (for clients without remote MCP)

If your client only supports stdio transport, run this package locally with npx; it bridges stdio to the FoundRole endpoint and handles the OAuth sign-in for you:

npx @foundrole/ai-job-search-mcp

The first start opens FoundRole's sign-in page in your browser. After you approve, the bridge keeps the session in ~/.config/foundrole/mcp-auth.json (readable only by you) and renews it on its own, so later starts connect without asking again. Delete that file to sign out.

Connecting your AI assistant

ChatGPT

Estimated time: ~1 minute

1. Open FoundRole Jobs in ChatGPT's plugins.
2. Click Install plugin and approve the FoundRole sign-in when ChatGPT opens it.
3. Ask for jobs in any chat — no settings to configure, nothing to paste.

Claude

Estimated time: ~1 minute

1. Open FoundRole Jobs in Claude's connector directory.
2. Add the connector and approve the FoundRole sign-in Claude opens.
3. Ask for jobs in any chat — no server address to copy.

Claude Code and Cowork: install the FoundRole Jobs plugin (the page opens once you are signed in to Claude). It adds the same connector plus two skills that walk Claude through a job search and a resume check; the source is in claude-plugin/.

Directory connectors switched off in your workspace? Add a custom connector instead: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it FoundRole, paste https://www.foundrole.com/mcp, save, and approve the sign-in.

Cursor

Estimated time: ~1 minute

Click the button, confirm Install in Cursor, and approve the FoundRole sign-in it opens. FoundRole Jobs is also listed on Cursor Directory.

The Cursor plugin lives in this repository — .cursor-plugin/plugin.json with the server declared in mcp.json. To load it locally, symlink this repo into ~/.cursor/plugins/local/ and reload the window.

VS Code

Estimated time: ~1 minute

Click the badge, confirm Install in VS Code, approve the FoundRole sign-in, then ask for jobs in Copilot Chat in agent mode.

Manual setup — Cursor / VS Code / Windsurf

In Cursor, open Settings → MCP and add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{

"mcpServers": { "foundrole": { "url": "https://www.foundrole.com/mcp" } } }

In VS Code, add this to .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace (or your user mcp.json) — VS Code uses a different key and needs an explicit transport type:

{

"servers": { "foundrole": { "type": "http", "url": "https://www.foundrole.com/mcp" } } }

Approve the FoundRole sign-in when your editor opens it, then ask for jobs in the chat.

Antigravity (Google)

Estimated time: ~1 minute

Install the plugin straight from this repository:

agy plugin install https://github.com/foundrole/jobs-mcp-proxy

Approve the FoundRole sign-in Antigravity opens, then ask for jobs in the CLI. The plugin declares the server in mcp_config.json; to wire it up by hand instead, add the same entry to ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json:

{

"mcpServers": { "foundrole": { "serverUrl": "https://www.foundrole.com/mcp" } } }

Any other MCP client

The same address works everywhere: add https://www.foundrole.com/mcp as a remote server, or bridge stdio-only clients with npx @foundrole/ai-job-search-mcp.

Note: After you approve the sign-in, some clients need a restart (quit and reopen) before the connection goes live.

Try saying

• _"Show me jobs near me."_
• _"Find senior backend engineer roles in San Francisco posted this week."_
• _"Which of these is least likely to be a ghost posting?"_
• _"Does Stripe sponsor visas? What does this role really pay?"_
• _"Compare the Stripe and Vercel roles on fit,