jd-intel-mcp MCP Server

Your AI fetches and reads full job descriptions across seven ATS platforms, no copy-paste.

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Published as jd-intel-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

Most discussed

MCP server: expose ats-index as AI tool interface

Context

ats-index currently works as an npm library and CLI. Adding an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server would let any AI tool (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) use it directly.

User says "find me PM roles at Stripe" → AI calls ats-index MCP tools → gets structured job data back → reasons about it.

Proposed Tools

fetch_jobs — fetch all jobs from a company board
detect_ats — detect which ATS a company uses
search_registry — find companies by name/sector
diff_jobs — what

Read the thread · 2026-04-03 · closed · 2 comments

P2: naming convention deviations (documented, not fixed)

Context

Post-publish review (mcp-builder skill) flagged two deviations from MCP naming conventions. Both are preserved for backward compatibility with v0.1.0 installed users. This issue documents the deviations for future reference.

Deviations

1. Server name: `jd-intel-mcp` vs convention `{service}-mcp-server`

Skill recommends `github-mcp-server`, `slack-mcp-server`, etc. Ours is `jd-intel-mcp`.

Why not fix: Renaming orphans every user who has `"args": ["-y", "jd-in

Read the thread · 2026-04-24 · closed · 1 comment

Document Claude Desktop / MCP client config snippet in README

Post-MCP-publish step: add a copy-paste config snippet to the README so users can install ats-index-mcp in Claude Desktop (and other MCP clients) in one step.

Requirements

Generic template only. No personal paths, no real usernames, no `C:\Users...` leaks.
Works after `npm publish`.
Uses `npx -y` so users don't have to install globally.

Suggested snippet

```json { "mcpServers": { "ats-index": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "ats-index-mcp"]

Read the thread · 2026-04-17 · closed · 1 comment

Write dense tool descriptions (the actual product surface)

Tool descriptions are loaded into the AI's context on every turn — they're the product surface, not documentation. This issue tracks writing the three dense, AI-teaching descriptions for the MCP MVP.

Target: 200-400 tokens per tool

Every sentence must earn its place. No filler. Dense guidance beats verbose examples.

What each description must teach

fetch_jobs

What it does (one sentence)
When to use vs when to call search_registry first
Argument construction:
- titleFil

Read the thread · 2026-04-17 · closed · 1 comment

MCP MVP spec: 3 tools, stdio transport, locked filter contract

Single source of truth for the MCP server MVP. Locked 2026-04-17 based on tester feedback and architectural decisions captured in notes/building-mcp.md.

Scope: 3 tools in 1 stdio server

Tool 1: fetch_jobs

fetch_jobs({
  company: string,                  // required slug (e.g., "stripe")
  ats?: string,                     // skip auto-detect if known
  titleFilter?: string,             // regex on title only (role identity)
  filter?: string,                  // regex on title + dep

[Read the thread](https://github.com/prPMDev/jd-intel/issues/14) · 2026-04-17 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Design constraint for change-detection / diff_jobs: handle first-run (no baseline) explicitly

## Context

Future feature on roadmap: change detection / temporal tracking. External reviewer flagged a common anti-pattern in stateful MCP tools that we should design around before implementation:

> The diff_jobs tool will silently return empty diffs on first run (no baseline = no changes). Seen this bite people multiple times with stateful MCP tools.

## The anti-pattern

When a stateful tool (diff, watch, poll) runs with no prior state, the instinct is to return "0 changes." Looks successfu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/prPMDev/jd-intel/issues/21) · 2026-04-24 · open · 0 comments

### P1: adopt outputSchema + structuredContent for modern MCP client display

## Context

Modern MCP SDK pattern (post v1.0): register tools with both an \`inputSchema\` AND an \`outputSchema\`, and return responses with both \`content[]\` (text for fallback rendering) AND \`structuredContent\` (typed object that modern clients can render richly).

Our current implementation only uses \`content[]\` with JSON-as-text. Newer clients (Claude Desktop recent builds, Cursor, Windsurf) could surface structured fields natively if we adopted the pattern.

## What changes

- Define

[Read the thread](https://github.com/prPMDev/jd-intel/issues/19) · 2026-04-24 · open · 0 comments

### MCP best-practices alignment (mcp-builder review) — .strict() Zod, tool annotations, isError, pagination

## Context

Post-publish review of jd-intel-mcp@0.1.0 against the [mcp-builder skill's best-practices reference](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk). Current state is a solid B+ — production-worthy, real users can install and get value. This issue tracks the P0 quality items that would lift it to A- without major refactor.

Effort estimate: ~1 hour of focused work, single commit.

## Checklist (P0 items — ship together as v0.2.0)

### 1. Add `annotations` to all three tools

[Read the thread](https://github.com/prPMDev/jd-intel/issues/18) · 2026-04-24 · open · 0 comments

### detect_ats: fallback for companies not in registry

## Context

During user testing, some companies returned 0 results with no way to distinguish between "not in registry", "uses unsupported ATS", or "wrong slug":

> "SimplePractice: 0 in ats-index (maybe the posting is old/expired). Skip."

Currently \`detectAts\` only checks ATS platforms with the literal slug. No variant attempts, no registry-independent fallback.

## Proposal

Extend \`detectAts(companyName)\`:

1. **Generate slug variants** — \`simple-practice\`, \`simplepractice\`, \`simple

[Read the thread](https://github.com/prPMDev/jd-intel/issues/10) · 2026-04-17 · open · 0 comments

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