# Employed by Guaq AI

Wires your agent into a live job index built from employer boards, so you can search roles, build a profile and track applications without leaving the chat.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI
- Author: Guaq-AI
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/Guaq-AI/employed-plugins
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/employed-by-guaq-ai

## What it does

This MCP server sits between your agent and the Employed by Guaq AI service, which indexes openings found on employer applicant-tracking boards such as Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby and SmartRecruiters. Each result points at the employer's own apply page. Search tools include `search_jobs`, `count_jobs`, `get_job`, `list_companies`, `company_profile` and `market_signal`; account tools cover `get_my_profile`, `update_my_profile`, `get_my_feed`, `list_my_applications`, `track_job` and more. You can turn a CV into a profile from inside the conversation.

Five skills ship with it. `employed-jobs` supplies the filter vocabulary — domain, seniority, location, work mode, tech, visa signal. `job-search-from-resume` builds a ranked shortlist from your background. `employer-research` shows what a given company hires for. `hiring-market-brief` sizes demand for a skill, role or city. `application-tracker` keeps a Markdown or CSV tracker you own. Two agents (`job-search-agent`, `employer-research-agent`) and three slash commands (`/employed:find-jobs`, `/employed:company`, `/employed:market`) come along on hosts that support them.

Sign-in goes through an Employed account with browser OAuth; hosts without OAuth take an API key from your profile page instead. The `npx -y employed-mcp` route needs `GUAQ_API_KEY` set, or it will not start. There are no hooks, and nothing in the bundle executes code locally.

## Requirements
- Needs: Node.js (commands run via npx)
- Remote server: `https://jobs.guaqai.me/mcp`
- Environment variables: `GUAQ_API_KEY` — keys and tokens: ask the human for the values, never commit them or put them in shared files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http employed https://jobs.guaqai.me/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
claude mcp add --env GUAQ_API_KEY=<GUAQ_API_KEY> --transport stdio employed-by-guaq-ai -- npx -y employed-mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Codex

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add employed-by-guaq-ai --url https://jobs.guaqai.me/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
codex mcp add employed-by-guaq-ai --env GUAQ_API_KEY=<GUAQ_API_KEY> -- npx -y employed-mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "employed-by-guaq-ai": {
            "url": "https://jobs.guaqai.me/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "employed-by-guaq-ai": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "employed-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "GUAQ_API_KEY": "<GUAQ_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "employed-by-guaq-ai": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://jobs.guaqai.me/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "employed-by-guaq-ai": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "employed-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "GUAQ_API_KEY": "<GUAQ_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Gemini CLI

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http employed-by-guaq-ai https://jobs.guaqai.me/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini mcp add -e GUAQ_API_KEY=<GUAQ_API_KEY> employed-by-guaq-ai npx -y employed-mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

## When to use it
- find roles matching your level and stack without trawling boards by hand
- turn a resume into a ranked shortlist of openings
- check what a company is hiring for right now
- gauge demand for a skill, role or city from live postings
- keep an application tracker in Markdown or CSV from the chat

## Example prompts
- Which companies are hiring Rust engineers remotely?
- Here is my resume. What should I apply to?

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