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HiringCensus MCP

An official MCP server that provides access to HiringCensus's daily census of open jobs sourced directly from employer applicant-tracking boards. It allows AI assistants to verify if companies are actively hiring by checking publish dates, searching for recent roles, and identifying boards that are fresh or have gone quiet.

Endpoint and access

No sign-in to connect and list tools. Individual tools may still need a vendor account, credentials, or permissions; check the documented prerequisites.

HiringCensus MCP logo, by HiringCensusVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Operated by HiringCensus
You need:A trial of 10 calls answers without a key over a 14-day windowafter that a licence key is required
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

6 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

6 of 6 have a description · 0 of 6 declare behavior hints · 2 of 5 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to hiringcensus.com ·
  • Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Check if a specific company is actively hiring or has abandoned boards
  • Search for remote roles posted in the last week with publish dates
  • Identify companies with no backlog of old job postings
  • Find boards that have gone quiet with no new posts in six months

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.1.0

Protocol and capabilities

Server
hiringcensus 1.0.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-06-18
Tools
6 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
Not advertised
Prompts
Not advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Licensed service: 10 trial calls in total, then a licence is required (https://hiringcensus.com/pricing/). Pass it as a bearer token. HiringCensus reads employers' own applicant-tracking boards every morning and keeps the publish date on every role. Use check_company before trusting that a company is hiring -- a third of open postings are over 90 days old and some boards have not been touched in a year.

Tools

6 advertised

search_jobs
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Search open job postings read directly from employers' own Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever boards. Unlike a job board, every result carries the employer's real publish date and age in days, so you can tell a role posted this morning from one that has been open two years.

search_jobs input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Max results (default 25)"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Words in the job title, e.g. 'staff backend engineer'"
    },
    "remote": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only roles flagged remote"
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Any part of the location string, e.g. 'Berlin', 'California'"
    },
    "department": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Function, e.g. 'Engineering', 'Sales'"
    },
    "technology": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Technology named in the posting, e.g. 'Python', 'Kubernetes'"
    },
    "max_age_days": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Only roles posted within this many days"
    },
    "min_age_days": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Only roles OLDER than this many days -- use to hunt stale listings"
    }
  }
}
check_company
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Ask whether a company is ACTUALLY hiring, not just whether it has jobs listed. Returns a verdict on the board -- actively_hiring, still_open, gone_quiet or likely_abandoned -- with the age of the newest posting, the median role age, and how many reqs have sat open over 90 days and over a year. This is the check that tells you whether an application or a sales approach is worth the time.

check_company input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "company"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "company": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Company name"
    }
  }
}
find_quiet_boards
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Companies still advertising open roles while having posted nothing new in over six months. Strong evidence of a board nobody tidied up after the hiring finished. Useful for striking dead accounts off a prospect list, or for avoiding applications that will never be read.

find_quiet_boards input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer"
    }
  }
}
find_fresh_boards
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Companies where EVERY currently open role was posted in the last 30 days -- no backlog of applicants ahead of you, and usually a team that just started hiring. For sales, a company that just opened its first roles in a function is one whose budget has recently moved.

find_fresh_boards input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer"
    }
  }
}
whats_changed
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

What actually MOVED, on a list of companies you name or across the whole record. Answers the question a person with a book of accounts has every morning: which of mine changed, and is anyone suddenly ramping? Returns NET movement, because a company that opened 342 roles and closed 317 is churning and one that opened 261 and closed 41 is hiring -- and flags a board whose VERDICT flipped, which is a budget unfreezing and the strongest signal in this data.

whats_changed input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "days": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Window, default 7"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "companies": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Company names to watch. Omit for the whole market."
    }
  }
}
hiring_stats
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Market-level hiring numbers measured this morning across every board we read: employers hiring, open roles, how many went up in the last 24 hours, how many have been open over 90 days and over a year, how many boards have gone quiet, and the most in-demand technologies.

hiring_stats input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

90-day uptime

A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (1 of 1 answered).

  1. 2026-11-07: 1 of 1 checks answered

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
1212 ms
95th percentile latency
1212 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 1212 ms · metadata changed · 6 tool(s)

Connect from your client

Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http hiringcensus-mcp https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add hiringcensus-mcp --url https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable hiringcensus-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hiringcensus-mcp": {
      "url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hiringcensus-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start hiringcensus-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "hiringcensus-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http hiringcensus-mcp https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hiringcensus-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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