Recruiting Reports MCP

A free, always-on knowledge base of 30+ recruiting industry benchmark reports — queryable through Claude using natural language.

Sources include Ashby, Gem, LinkedIn, SHRM, iCIMS, Korn Ferry, HireVue, Greenhouse, Bullhorn, Mercer, Phenom, SignalFire, Criteria Corp, Employ, and Josh Bersin Company. A weekly agent adds new credible reports automatically.

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What you can ask it

• “What’s the average time-to-fill for a 500-person company?”
• “What are benchmarks for offer acceptance rates at Series B startups?”
• “Find quotes on AI in hiring from 2026 reports”
• “How does recruiter capacity compare across company sizes?”
• “What does Gem’s data say about outreach reply rates?”
• “Show me all Ashby reports from 2024” (uses the structured filter_reports tool)

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How to install

Option A — Claude.ai (easiest, no installs required)

Works with any paid Claude plan directly in your browser.

1. Go to claude.ai and open Settings → Customize → Connectors
2. Click + next to Connectors, then choose Add custom connector
3. Give it a name (e.g. Recruiting Reports) and paste in the URL:

   https://two026-recruiting-reports.onrender.com/mcp
   

4. Click Add

To use it in a conversation, click the + button in the chat input, go to Connectors, and toggle it on.

Option B — Claude Code (CLI)

If you use Claude Code, add this to ~/.claude/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recruiting-reports": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://two026-recruiting-reports.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Code — the server connects automatically.

Start asking questions

In any session with the connector enabled, ask questions about recruiting benchmarks. Claude will pull data directly from the reports.

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Reports included

See reports/00-INDEX.md for the full list — organized by source and year, with sample sizes and a Quick Reference table of headline benchmarks.

New reports are added weekly via an automated agent. To contribute one, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

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For developers

Run locally (stdio mode):

npm install
node server.js stdio

Add to ~/.claude/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recruiting-reports": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/recruiting-reports-mcp/server.js", "stdio"]
    }
  }
}

Run as HTTP server:

npm install
node server.js         # starts on port 3000
PORT=8080 node server.js

Test: curl http://localhost:3000/health

Run tests:

npm test

Add a new report: see CONTRIBUTING.md for the frontmatter schema and the canonical source vocabulary.

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Questions or suggestions? Open an issue or reach out at [email protected].