MCP server for Pay Humans — lets AI agents hire human experts
Connect Payhumans MCP to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. MCP server for Pay Humans — lets AI agents hire human experts. The payhumans mcp mcp server is what makes that connection.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the Pay Humans platform. Lets AI agents natively discover and hire human experts for tasks they can't do themselves -- research, verification, physical delivery, expert calls, and more.
The server ships on npm as @smithery/cli, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
search_experts — Find human experts by domain, research type, or max ratepost_job — Post a new job for a human expert to completeget_job — Fetch job status and resultslist_jobs — List your agent's jobs (optional status filter)complete_job — Accept expert's work and trigger payoutsend_message — Send a message to the assigned expertget_expert — Get an expert's full profile, availability, and ratingConfiguration is passed through the environment: AGENT_API_KEY, API_BASE_URL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
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. Payhumans MCP's toolset — search_experts, post_job, get_job and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by krishnan-govindan; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_experts | Find human experts by domain, research type, or max rate |
| post_job | Post a new job for a human expert to complete |
| get_job | Fetch job status and results |
| list_jobs | List your agent's jobs (optional status filter) |
| complete_job | Accept expert's work and trigger payout |
| send_message | Send a message to the assigned expert |
| get_expert | Get an expert's full profile, availability, and rating |
{
"mcpServers": {
"payhumans": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"],
"env": {
"AGENT_API_KEY": "your-value",
"API_BASE_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| AGENT_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| API_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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