# HeyLead — AI agent for LinkedIn outreach

Finds people on LinkedIn, writes to them in your style, follows up and sorts replies. Works inside Claude, Cursor or any MCP client.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 12
- Author: D4umak
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/D4umak/linkedin-outreach-mcp
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach

## What it does

HeyLead hands your agent a set of LinkedIn tools: build a buyer profile, locate matching people, send invitations, chase the acceptances and read incoming answers. A campaign starts life as a draft and only goes live when you launch it. Sending happens from your own LinkedIn account at a human pace — no more than 20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free account, Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 22:00 your time. When LinkedIn pushes back, the server slows down and picks up again later.

On the hosted setup, every opening DM and follow-up waits for a person to approve it by default, and the approved text is what goes out. Invitations, InMail and replies are never held. Autopilot is one switch away in sending settings.

Self-hosting is an option too. You bring a Unipile account, which is what actually talks to LinkedIn, plus your own LLM API key — model calls are billed to you. Set the server address and the Unipile key with `heylead config set unipile_api_url <DSN>` and `heylead secrets set unipile_api_key`; the key lands in the OS keychain rather than the config file. Local runs go through `uvx`, so `uv` has to be installed.

## Requirements
- Needs: Python and uv (commands run via uvx)
- Remote server: `https://heylead.dev/mcp`
- Works with: LinkedIn

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http heylead https://heylead.dev/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
claude mcp add heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach -- uvx heylead
```
uvx runs the command named after the package; if the README names another one, use uvx --from heylead <command>

### Codex

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach --url https://heylead.dev/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
codex mcp add heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach -- uvx heylead
```
uvx runs the command named after the package; if the README names another one, use uvx --from heylead <command>

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach": {
            "url": "https://heylead.dev/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "heylead"
            ]
        }
    }
}
```
uvx runs the command named after the package; if the README names another one, use uvx --from heylead <command>

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://heylead.dev/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "heylead"
            ]
        }
    }
}
```
uvx runs the command named after the package; if the README names another one, use uvx --from heylead <command>

### Gemini CLI

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach https://heylead.dev/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini mcp add heylead-ai-agent-for-linkedin-outreach uvx heylead
```
uvx runs the command named after the package; if the README names another one, use uvx --from heylead <command>

## When to use it
- locate CTOs at fintech startups for a target ICP
- build a buyer persona with pain points and objections
- send LinkedIn invitations without blowing your account limits
- follow up with people who accepted but never answered
- sort incoming replies and surface hot leads

## Example prompts
- Send outreach to this campaign
- Check my LinkedIn replies

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