# How to Run Your ATS Inside Claude (Curriculo ATS MCP Tutorial)

> Connect Curriculo ATS to Claude in under two minutes using the Model Context Protocol. Once linked, you ask your hiring pipeline questions in plain English and Claude reads live data, ranks candidates by AI fit score, and (with your approval) schedules interviews and sends candidate emails directly in your ATS.

**Source:** https://curriculo.me/mcp/run-your-ats-in-claude/ (Curriculo ATS)

By Dev Rishi Khare, Founder of Curriculo. Published June 11, 2026.

Most recruiters do not have a hiring problem. They have a tab problem. Your shortlist is in the ATS. The scores are in a spreadsheet you exported last Tuesday. The interview invites live in your email drafts. To answer one simple question, "who are my five best candidates right now," you click through four tools and stitch the answer together by hand.

That is the idea behind connecting Curriculo ATS to Claude. You type a question in plain English, and your hiring pipeline answers back, ranked, sourced, and ready to act on. No exports. No copy-paste.

## What is the Curriculo ATS MCP connector?

The Curriculo ATS MCP connector is a secure, two-way link between your Curriculo ATS account and Claude, built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard Anthropic created so AI assistants can talk to outside tools. Once you add it, Claude can read your jobs, applicants, evaluations, and inbox, and, when you allow it, take actions like scheduling interviews or sending candidate emails.

Reading your pipeline is on by default. Anything that changes data or contacts a candidate asks for your approval first. The connector lives at one Remote URL.

**Remote URL:**
```
https://mcp.curriculo.me/mcp
```

## What can you actually do with it?

- Ask how many jobs are open and see the top candidates for each, ranked by AI fit score
- Rank or re-rank any pipeline by years of experience, stage, or your own criteria
- Pull a candidate's full evaluation, resume text, and email history in one reply
- Search every applicant across all jobs for a specific skill or background
- Read your recruiting inbox and draft replies in your voice
- Schedule interviews and send invites, with Claude confirming the details before anything sends
- Get dashboard numbers and hiring analytics without opening a single report

The pattern is always the same. You ask. Claude pulls the live data. You decide what happens next.

## What you'll need before you start

| You need | Details |
|----------|---------|
| A Curriculo ATS account | The free Starter plan works. Sign up at curriculo.me if you do not have one. |
| A Claude account | Custom connectors using remote MCP work on Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. Free accounts can add one custom connector. |
| Two minutes | That is genuinely all the setup takes. |

On Claude Team and Enterprise, an organization owner has to switch connectors on once, under Admin settings, before individual members can add their own. On a personal Free, Pro, or Max plan, there is nothing to enable.

## How to connect Curriculo ATS to Claude, step by step

1. **Open Settings in Claude.** Click your profile, then go to Settings and select Connectors.
2. **Click "Add custom connector."** You will find it at the bottom of the Connectors list.
3. **Paste the Remote URL.** Enter `https://mcp.curriculo.me/mcp` as the server URL and give it a name like "Curriculo ATS."
4. **Authenticate.** Claude opens a secure sign-in window. Log in to Curriculo and approve access. This uses OAuth, so Claude never sees your password.
5. **Set tool permissions.** The read-only tools are safe to set to Always allow. The tools that write data or email candidates stay on Ask first, so Claude has to check with you before it acts.

Start a new chat and try your first question.

## Your first question: rank every candidate by AI fit

Try this prompt:

> "How many jobs are active? And show me the top 5 candidates of each active job."

Claude loads your live pipeline and comes back with every open role and its top candidates, ranked by Curriculo's AI suitability score, with the stage and years of experience for each. From here you can drill in: "show me [candidate]'s full evaluation," or "re-rank DevOps by years of experience instead." Claude already has the context.

## Letting Claude take action: schedule interviews from chat

Try this prompt:

> "Based on their score, send the top 5 an online interview invite. They have to complete it before June 12."

Claude does not blast five emails the second you hit enter. Because these are real messages to real people that cannot be unsent, it stops and asks who exactly should get the invite, spots problems (like a candidate sitting in three top slots because of a duplicate job), de-duplicates the shortlist, and verifies the addresses before doing anything. Only after you confirm does it act, writing the interviews straight back into your ATS.

## Is it safe? Permissions and privacy

You stay in control at three levels. First, reading is separate from acting: the tools that only view your data can run freely, while every tool that writes data or emails a candidate is held back until you approve it. Second, sign-in uses OAuth, the same standard "Sign in with Google" uses, so Claude is granted scoped access and never stores your password. Third, you can disconnect in one click from the Connectors screen, which instantly revokes access.

## 10 prompts to try in your first week

1. "How many jobs are open and how many applicants does each have?"
2. "Show me the top 5 candidates for [job] ranked by AI fit, with their current stage."
3. "Who in the Backend pipeline has more than 5 years of experience?"
4. "Pull [candidate]'s full evaluation and resume summary."
5. "Search every job for candidates with Kubernetes experience."
6. "Which candidates have been sitting in the Interview stage for over a week?"
7. "Draft a warm rejection email for the candidates still in New for [job]."
8. "Summarize my recruiting inbox and tell me what needs a reply today."
9. "Move [candidate] to the Offer stage and add a note about the salary discussion."
10. "Give me this month's hiring numbers: time to hire, candidates per role, offers out."

## Frequently asked questions

### Which Claude plans support the Curriculo ATS connector?

Custom connectors using remote MCP are available on Claude Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Free accounts can add one custom connector, which is enough to connect Curriculo ATS. On Team and Enterprise, an organization owner enables connectors once in Admin settings before members can add them.

### Is my candidate data used to train AI?

No. The connector gives Claude live, scoped access to your Curriculo ATS account so it can answer your questions in the moment. It is a working connection to your data, not a data-sharing or training arrangement. You grant access through OAuth and can revoke it anytime.

### Can Claude actually send emails to candidates?

Yes, but only when you allow it. Email and other write actions stay on Ask first by default, so Claude confirms the recipients and details with you before anything sends.

### Does it work on Claude desktop and mobile?

Custom connectors using remote MCP work in Claude on the web and in the Claude desktop app. Add the connector once in Settings and it follows your account.

### How is this different from copy-pasting into ChatGPT?

You are not pasting a stale snapshot. The connector reads your live pipeline through the Model Context Protocol and can act on it, so Claude is working with the same data your team sees right now, and can schedule interviews or update stages directly instead of just talking about them.

### What tools does the connector include?

Curriculo ATS exposes its recruiting toolkit through the connector, covering jobs, applicants, evaluations, resume text, candidate search, the inbox, interviews, analytics, and the write actions for scheduling and outreach. Read-only tools can run freely; write tools ask first. See the [full tool reference](https://curriculo.me/docs/mcp/).

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