Gemsift MCP Server

AI resume triage for recruiters. Query your candidate pool from Claude or ChatGPT.

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What is the Gemsift MCP server?

AI resume triage for recruiters. Query your candidate pool from Claude or ChatGPT. Exposed over MCP by the gemsift mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.

What it actually does

Gemsift is an AI resume-triage tool for recruiters. This MCP server connects your AI assistant directly to your own candidate pool, so you can screen, shortlist, and move candidates by chat. Drop in a pile of applicants and ask your AI who is actually worth a call, including the strong people a keyword filter would normally bury, with the reasons why. The recruiter always makes the final call.

Adding it to your client

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

  • list_positions — Your open roles with candidate counts
  • get_shortlist — Top candidates for a role, including hidden gems
  • get_candidate_analysis — Full parsed profile and per-role evaluations for one person
  • why_ranked — Why a candidate scores the way they do: matched, missing, transferable
  • list_trust_flags — Duplicate, consistency, and fraud signals in your pool
  • get_email_forwarding_address — A forwarding address to send resumes straight into the pool
  • create_position — Create a role from a job description
  • set_candidate_status — Move a candidate (shortlist, pass, and so on) by chat

Caveats

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the gemsift mcp server does with a few real requests.

When to reach for it

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Gemsift's toolset — list_positions, get_shortlist, get_candidate_analysis and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by erashev-fedor; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
list_positionsYour open roles with candidate counts
get_shortlistTop candidates for a role, including hidden gems
get_candidate_analysisFull parsed profile and per-role evaluations for one person
why_rankedWhy a candidate scores the way they do: matched, missing, transferable
list_trust_flagsDuplicate, consistency, and fraud signals in your pool
get_email_forwarding_addressA forwarding address to send resumes straight into the pool
create_positionCreate a role from a job description
set_candidate_statusMove a candidate (shortlist, pass, and so on) by chat

How to install the Gemsift MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gemsift": {
      "url": "https://gemsift.com/api/mcp/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <your-workspace-key>" }
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Gemsift to list positions.
  • Use Gemsift to get shortlist.
  • Use Gemsift to get candidate analysis.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Gemsift to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 8 tools (list_positions, get_shortlist, get_candidate_analysis, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Gemsift directly.