MCP SERVER

Apply to jobs from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

Add Shortlist to the AI you already chat with. Then ask it to find jobs and apply, and it does: on the company’s own careers page, with your details, in your words. It asks you before every send.

https://api.shortlistapp.co/mcp

Find remote backend roles in Europe with a stated salary, and apply to the best fit.

Found 38. Best fit: Senior Backend Engineer, Remote (EU), €95k–120k at a payments company on Greenhouse. You haven’t applied there before. Shall I apply? It uses 1 of your 7 credits.

Yes.

Sent and confirmed by the employer’s system. Shortlist filled 9 fields from your profile. Replies will land in your Shortlist inbox.

CONNECT IT

Three clicks in your tool. Then sign in.

The address is the same everywhere: https://api.shortlistapp.co/mcp. Your tool opens a Shortlist sign-in, you approve, and the tools appear.

Claude web, desktop, phone

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
Name it Shortlist, paste the address, save.
Press Connect and sign in to Shortlist.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http shortlist https://api.shortlistapp.co/mcp

Then run /mcp inside Claude Code and sign in when the browser opens.

Cursor

Add to Cursor

Or Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server, type HTTP, paste the address.

VS Code, Windsurf, others

Run MCP: Add Server, choose HTTP, paste the address. Or add this to your mcp.json:

{ "shortlist": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.shortlistapp.co/mcp" } }

ChatGPT

Where connectors are enabled on your plan: Settings → Connectors → add a custom connector with the address, then sign in.

Building an agent?

Streamable HTTP, stateless, OAuth 2.1 through the server’s protected-resource metadata. The server card lists every tool with its schema. Plain-English guidance for agents is in llms.txt.

WHAT YOUR ASSISTANT CAN DO

Six things it can do. Only one of them sends anything, and only when you say so.

Finds jobs

Searches 15,000+ live roles read from companies' own careers pages, refreshed every six hours, with the salary where the company posted one.

search_jobs

Checks a job link

Paste any job link, even one you found elsewhere, and it tells you whether Shortlist can apply there and whether you already have. Free.

check_job

Applies, after you say yes

Opens the company's real form, fills it in from your profile and resume, answers the questions, and sends it. It asks you first, every time.

send_application

Shows your applications

Everything you have applied to, and what each one is waiting on.

get_applications

Passes on your answers

When a company asks something new, your assistant asks you and passes your answer on. Shortlist remembers it, so you are never asked twice.

answer_questions

Checks your account

Your plan, how many applications you have left, and whether your profile is ready.

get_account

THINGS TO SAY

Talk to it like you’d talk to a friend who knows the boards.

“Find remote backend engineer jobs in Europe that state a salary and show me the five best fits.”
“Can Shortlist apply to this one? https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/… — and have I applied already?”
“Apply to the Stripe one. Use my saved answers, and ask me if anything is missing.”
“Which of my applications are waiting on me, and what do they need?”

WHAT IT NEVER DOES

Your assistant gets a pen, not a signature.

Never sends without you

The apply tool refuses unless your assistant passes your explicit yes, and it is told to show you the job and ask first.

Never the same job twice

Every application carries a key tied to you and the job. A repeat is refused before it reaches the employer.

Never invents an answer

Salary, notice period, visa: your assistant must ask you. Shortlist remembers the answer for the next form.

Never keeps your replies

Employer replies go to your Shortlist inbox and your own email, not into a chat window.

Behind the server is the same engine that applies from the Shortlist website and the Autopilot rules: same credits, same checks, same record of every application.

QUESTIONS

Questions people ask before they connect

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. Connect it once in the Claude app on your phone (Settings → Connectors) and apply from a chat on the bus. The first application through this server was sent from a phone.

Which AI tools can use it?

Claude (web, desktop and phone), Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT where connectors are switched on for your plan, and any other tool that lets you add an MCP connector.

Can it apply without asking me?

No. The apply tool refuses unless your assistant passes your explicit confirmation, and it is written to show you the job and ask first. If a role is a stretch for your profile, you hear why before anything is sent.

What does it cost?

The same as using Shortlist on the website: ten applications free, no card, then plans by the week. Searching and checking jobs are free and unlimited. One application uses one credit, whichever door it came through.

Where do employer replies go?

To your Shortlist inbox and your own email, filed against the application they belong to. Never to the AI tool.

Where do the answers to employer questions come from?

From you. Your assistant is told never to guess a salary, notice period or visa status; it asks you, passes the answer on, and Shortlist remembers it for next time.

Connect it now. Ten applications are free.

Create your Shortlist account, upload your resume once, then paste the address into your AI tool.

Start free