MCP overview

Sterndesk Recruit supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing AI assistants to connect directly to your Sterndesk Recruit data and tools. With MCP, you can use supported AI assistants such as Claude to find and retrieve recruitment information without manually switching between Sterndesk and your AI assistant. For example, you can ask:

• “Find Chief Engineers with PSV experience.”
• “Find candidates with experience as a Second Officer.”
• “Show me the profile information for this candidate.”

The AI assistant can use the available Sterndesk Recruit tools to retrieve relevant information from your organization.

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How it works

Your AI assistant connects to the Sterndesk Recruit MCP server. When you make a request that requires information from Sterndesk, the assistant can use the available Sterndesk Recruit tools to retrieve that information. The production MCP server is available at:
https://edge.sterndesk.com/mcp Access is authenticated using your Sterndesk personal API key.

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What you can access

The current MCP integration provides access to Sterndesk Recruit methods available for reading data. This includes functionality for finding crew and retrieving candidate information. The currently documented MCP integration is intended for retrieving data. Actions that modify Sterndesk data are not currently supported for general use.

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Authentication

Sterndesk Recruit MCP uses the same personal API keys as the Sterndesk API. If you don’t have an API key yet, follow the Authentication guide to create and manage your API key before setting up the connector. The API key is sent to the MCP server using the Authorization request header:
Bearer YOUR_API_KEY There must be a space between Bearer and your API key.

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Connect an AI assistant

You can add Sterndesk Recruit as a custom connector in supported AI assistants.
To get started with Claude, follow the Connect to Claude guide.