Bring Applicant Tracking
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Ninehire to Claude Desktop and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Ninehire MCP Server?
Connect your Ninehire account to any AI agent and take full control of your talent acquisition and applicant tracking orchestration through natural conversation. Ninehire (나인하이어) provides a modern recruitment platform, and this integration allows you to retrieve job metadata, manage candidate profiles, and monitor interview evaluations directly from your chat interface.
What you can do
- Job & Requirement Orchestration — List all active job openings and retrieve detailed requirements programmatically to ensure your hiring roadmap is always synchronized.
- Applicant & Pipeline Intelligence — Access and monitor candidate profiles and retrieve detailed application history directly from the AI interface to maintain high-fidelity talent pools.
- Evaluation & Feedback Control — List interview scores and comments via natural language to drive better hiring decisions and team alignment.
- Manual Applicant Ingestion — Register new applicants and manage department or location metadata using simple AI commands.
- Operational Monitoring — Track system responses and manage recruitment webhooks to ensure your hiring workflows are always optimized.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Ninehire API Key from your integration settings
3. Start managing your recruitment pipeline from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
No more manual status checking in the ATS for candidate updates. Your AI acts as a dedicated recruitment coordinator or HR lead.
Who is this for?
- Recruiters & HR Specialists — quickly retrieve candidate summaries and monitor job performance without switching apps.
- Hiring Managers — automate the retrieval of evaluations and track pipeline progress via natural conversation.
- Growth Teams — streamline the ingestion of new candidates and monitor organizational hiring health directly within the chat.
Built-in capabilities (12)
Verify Ninehire API status
Get details for a specific candidate
Get current account profile
Get details for a specific job
Get evaluations for a candidate
List active webhooks
List internal hiring teams
List candidates and applicants
List hiring locations
Supports filtering by title, job group, and employment type. List all job openings
List company departments
Requires essential info like name and email. Add a candidate manually
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Ninehire to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 12 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Ninehire in Claude Desktop
Ninehire and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Ninehire to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Ninehire in Claude Desktop
The Ninehire MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Ninehire for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Ninehire MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can my AI automatically find the evaluations for a specific applicant?
Yes! Use the list_candidate_evaluations tool with the Applicant ID. Your agent will respond with complete metadata for all feedback scores and comments from the interview process in seconds.
How do I find my Ninehire API Key?
Log in to Ninehire, navigate to Settings > External Service Integration > Data > API, and click 'Issue API Key' to generate your unique secret token.
Can I register a new applicant via the AI?
Absolutely. Use the register_new_applicant tool. Provide the candidate metadata and the Job ID, and the agent will add the record to your ATS pipeline immediately.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.