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SmartRecruiters MCP connector

The SmartRecruiters connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent read jobs, candidates, interviews, offers, and screening answers from SmartRecruiters, and update candidate status, with every call running as the signed-in person and logged.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect SmartRecruiters to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect SmartRecruiters once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick SmartRecruiters.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a SmartRecruiters API key. One person generates a token in SmartRecruiters and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

smartrecruiters
SmartRecruiters
Ashby
Gem
Greenhouse
Huntr
Lever
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

SmartRecruiters MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

SmartRecruiters MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

SmartRecruiters MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect SmartRecruiters to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with SmartRecruiters through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Recruiting

    Review a candidate before the screening call

    Ask for a candidate's application, screening answers, and attached resume in one go, so the recruiter joins the call already knowing what was submitted.

  • Recruiting

    Move candidates forward after a debrief

    After the hiring team agrees, ask the agent to update each candidate's status in SmartRecruiters and confirm who is now at which stage.

  • Hiring managers

    See where every open job stands

    List the jobs you own, who is on each hiring team, how many candidates sit at each stage, and which postings are live right now.

  • Coordinators

    Check this week's interview schedule

    Pull every interview booked across SmartRecruiters for the week, grouped by job, so no candidate is left waiting on a confirmation.

  • HR

    Confirm candidate consent before sharing details

    Check which candidates have given consent in SmartRecruiters and which have not, before a profile is forwarded to anyone outside the hiring team.

  • Leadership

    Track job approvals and open positions

    Ask which jobs are waiting on approval, which positions are still unfilled by department, and how each job's status has changed over time.

Try asking

  • “Which candidates for the Account Executive job are still in screening?”
  • “Summarize screening answers for candidates in the Sales Engineer pipeline”
  • “List this week's interviews and who sits on each hiring team”

See all 49 SmartRecruiters tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for SmartRecruiters

All three can connect SmartRecruiters to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for SmartRecruiters, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over SmartRecruiters tools Allow or restrict single SmartRecruiters tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per SmartRecruiters call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

SmartRecruiters tools for your AI agents

49 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect SmartRecruiters, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting SmartRecruiters gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your SmartRecruiters account.

The agent

Ask about your pipeline in plain language.

Get answers about jobs, candidates, interviews, and offers straight from SmartRecruiters records.

  • jobs
  • candidates
  • interviews
  • offers

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Which candidates for the Account Executive job are still in screening?

Summarize screening answers for candidates in the Sales Engineer pipeline

List this week's interviews and who sits on each hiring team

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint, every AI client, no shared key.

Use SmartRecruiters from Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor through one governed org endpoint.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

49 SmartRecruiters tools, ready without writing code.

Jobs, candidates, interviews, offers, consents, and publications, all covered without custom code.

  • List all SmartRecruiters jobs
  • Get single SmartRecruiters job by ID
  • SmartRecruiters jobs approval
  • SmartRecruiters jobs hiring team
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all SmartRecruiters jobs List Search SmartRecruiters jobs by title keyword, city, department, status, posting status, hiring team member, or update time. Returns: id, title, refNumber, createdOn, updatedOn, lastActivityOn, department, location, status, postingStatus, language, actions, type, category, name, label, records. Max 100 per page.
Get single SmartRecruiters job by ID Get Get a single SmartRecruiters job by id. Returns: id, title, refNumber, createdOn, updatedOn, lastActivityOn, department, location, status, postingStatus, targetHiringDate, hiringProcessId, industry, function, typeOfEmployment, experienceLevel, eeoCategory, template, creator, compensation, jobAd, properties, actions, totalFound, content. Required: id.
SmartRecruiters jobs approval Action Get the latest approval request for a SmartRecruiters job. Returns: positions. Required: job_id. The job must have an existing approval request.
SmartRecruiters jobs hiring team Action Get the hiring team of a SmartRecruiters job. Returns member records including id, type, category, name, label, and nested records of field values. Required: job_id.
SmartRecruiters jobs job ads Action List the job ads of a SmartRecruiters job. Returns: id, title, language, location, compensation, jobAd, createdOn, updatedOn, applyUrl, postingStatus, actions, creator, visibility, totalFound, content. Required: job_id.

Toolboxes

Each team gets its own SmartRecruiters toolbox.

Recruiters, hiring managers, and HR each work from a toolbox scoped to them.

  • Recruiting
  • Hiring managers
  • HR
  • Talent operations
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Recruiting toolbox

SmartRecruiters · open jobs and candidates

SmartRecruiters starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Hiring managers toolbox

SmartRecruiters · interviews and offers

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

HR toolbox

SmartRecruiters · consents and departments

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Talent operations toolbox

SmartRecruiters · job ads and publications

SmartRecruiters starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Coordinators toolbox

SmartRecruiters · interviews and attachments

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Leadership toolbox

SmartRecruiters · job approvals and positions

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share one SmartRecruiters connection, never the key.

Teammates work through the connection while the API key stays with whoever connected it.

  • Recruiting
  • Hiring managers
  • HR
  • Talent ops
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
SM

SmartRecruiters (Recruiting)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
SM

SmartRecruiters (Hiring managers)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
SM

SmartRecruiters (HR)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
SM

SmartRecruiters (Talent ops)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
SM

SmartRecruiters (Engineering hiring)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
SM

SmartRecruiters (Sales hiring)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every SmartRecruiters action is logged with a name.

See who viewed a candidate or changed a status, when, and on which record.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

[email protected]

SmartRecruiters Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

[email protected]

SmartRecruiters Jobs Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

[email protected]

SmartRecruiters Jobs List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule starts real work, a person approves.

Fetch new candidates, group them by job, draft a digest, approve, update SmartRecruiters.

SmartRecruiters digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch jobs

    SmartRecruiters

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    SmartRecruiters

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

SmartRecruiters hiring numbers, computed without a model.

Four metrics, a 14 day candidates chart, and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.

SmartRecruiters health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the jobs collection

Live

Jobs

1,284 ↓ 12%

Candidates

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Jobs created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Recruiting 34%

Hiring managers 27%

HR 21%

Talent ops 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect SmartRecruiters to Claude?

Connect SmartRecruiters in Elaichi by pasting the API key from your SmartRecruiters admin settings, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Once Claude has signed in to Elaichi, your SmartRecruiters jobs, candidates, and interviews are available in the conversation.

Does SmartRecruiters work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. The SmartRecruiters connection in Elaichi is exposed through one endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent all connect to that same address. You connect SmartRecruiters once and every client you use picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my SmartRecruiters data?

An agent can list and look up jobs, candidates, interviews, job ads, postings, and departments in SmartRecruiters, read a candidate's application, screening answers, offers, consents, and attachments, and check a job's hiring team and approval history. It can also move a candidate to a new status. Short, specific asks such as "candidates in screening for the Account Executive job" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting SmartRecruiters give the AI access to every candidate and job?

The AI sees exactly what the SmartRecruiters account that was connected can see, and nothing beyond it. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example limiting a team to reading candidates without changing their status, but it never widens what SmartRecruiters itself allows.

Can my recruiting team share one SmartRecruiters connection?

Yes. One person connects SmartRecruiters in Elaichi and shares it with a team, and nobody else ever handles the API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log records which person looked up a candidate or changed a status.

Can I stop an agent from changing candidate statuses in SmartRecruiters?

Yes. In Elaichi, restrictions on the SmartRecruiters connection apply per action, so you can allow reading jobs and candidates while blocking status updates. A restricted action is left out of the AI client's tool list entirely, so it cannot be called no matter how the prompt is worded.

What happens to a SmartRecruiters connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding the person in Elaichi ends their access to SmartRecruiters through every AI client at once. A SmartRecruiters connection shared with a team keeps working for everyone else on it. If you want it gone altogether, disconnecting SmartRecruiters once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client.

Does the SmartRecruiters MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. SmartRecruiters is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for SmartRecruiters?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use SmartRecruiters. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every SmartRecruiters call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for SmartRecruiters?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to SmartRecruiters: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put SmartRecruiters in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.