Workix MCP

Local MCP server for AI agents (Cursor, Claude, etc.) that work with the Workix hub and freelance boards.

Workix is a shared catalog where projects (startups/products/communities), roles & orders, and performers find each other. It is not a closed freelance marketplace: listings point to the owner’s preferred contact or apply flow. Agents use this MCP to search that catalog, manage your listings, and also pull opportunities from external boards while keeping platform credentials on the user’s machine.

Install (recommended): clone this repo → mcp/ → npm install && npm run build · Docs: workix.co/agent · api.txt · llms.txt
Optional shortcut: npx -y @workix/mcp (npm may lag behind git).

Where it is published

| Channel | Link / id | |---------|-----------| | npm | @workix/mcp | | Official MCP Registry | co.workix/mcp | | Source | facetoplace/Workix → mcp/ | | Dataset | workix/workix-mcp on Hugging Face | | Community catalogs | mcp.so · mcpservers.org · mcpmarket.com |

Dataset

workix/workix-mcp — open dataset generated from this server's own tool definitions (Apache-2.0), in three configs:

| Config | Rows | What | |--------|------|------| | qa | 83 | hand-written Q&A in en/ru/es: what Workix is, what data it exposes, how clients use it | | calls | 144 | user prompt → assistant tool_call in OpenAI messages format | | tools | 54 | the raw tool catalog: name, description, JSON Schema |

from datasets import load_dataset
qa = load_dataset("workix/workix-mcp", "qa", split="train")

Regenerate after changing the tool surface — it reads tools/list off the running server:

node scripts/dump-tools.mjs
HF_REPO=workix/workix-mcp node scripts/dataset-build.mjs

Sources: scripts/dump-tools.mjs · scripts/dataset-build.mjs · seeds in scripts/dataset-qa.json

What you can use it for

• Discover — search hub projects, roles, orders, and performers relevant to a skill or niche

• Publish / update — create or edit a startup or role, maintain a performer profile (WORKIX_AGENT_KEY)

• Freelance workflow — digests and search across supported boards, draft proposals, prepare browser apply steps (submit only with human confirmation)

• Ship a product card — publish a live site/PWA URL into the dStore catalog and find similar apps

• Hub tools — search/list/create projects, roles, profile; feedback/support (needs WORKIX_AGENT_KEY)

• Board tools — digest / search / draft / prepare-apply on Upwork, Freelancehunt, Kwork, FL RSS, … (credentials stay in your env)

• Downloadable adapters — heavy board modules are not required at install; MCP downloads them from the hub registry on first use and caches locally

Open contribution: see CONTRIBUTING.md (adapters + Telegram channels catalog PRs). Agent prompt & storefront: ../README.md.

Telegram channels: shared list telegram-channels.example.json — how to add via PR: TELEGRAM-CHANNELS.md.

What the agent remembers, and how to read it

All local state is in the SQLite file below. It is what stops a second session from re-applying to a job, re-posting a card, or showing the same digest twice.

| What | Table | Read it with | Written by | |------|-------|--------------|------------| | Job cards | jobs | workix_search, workix_get_job | workix_digest / workix_search while collecting | | Already shown in a digest | shown_digest | workix_job_state → shown_in_digest | workix_digest marks them; only_new (default) then hides them | | Where we applied, and the status | outreach | workix_outreach_list (job_id, contact, channel, status) | workix_outreach_log — required after any draft or send | | Proposal drafts | drafts | workix_job_state → draft | workix_draft_proposal | | Already mirrored to workix.co | hub_shares | workix_hub_share_status, workix_history | workix_share_jobs, workix_digest share_to_hub:true | | Where the last session stopped | checkpoints | workix_checkpoint_get | workix_checkpoint_set | | Board response cache | fetch_cache | workix_store_status | collection; force_refresh:true bypasses |

One call before acting on a card:

workix_job_state {"job_id": "1ca5ff1099b3ca91"}   # or {"url": "https://…"}

It returns whether the card was shown in a digest and when, whether it is already on workix.co (sid + link), whether a draft exists, every apply attempt with its status, the hub tracker row (hub_application, so an apply made on another machine also counts), and a next list of what is left. Call it before workix_draft_proposal, workix_submit_proposal and workix_share_jobs.

Applications live on the hub too. The local outreach table only knows this machine. workix_track_apply records the application on workix.co: it publishes the job into the catalog if it is missing, stores status + date + the text that was sent (privately — the listing shows only an anonymous counter), and mirrors the row locally. workix_submit_proposal calls it automatically when the agent sends the proposal itself. When the human applied by hand, ask them for the text they sent and pass it as text with via: "user" — their own wording is the best base for the next proposal, which is what workix_list_applies is for. workix_sync_applies pulls the history back into a fresh local store, and workix_delete_apply (needs confirm: true) removes a row that should not be there — the mirrored job stays in the catalog, since that listing is public board content rather than part of your private log.

| Funnel status | Meaning | |---------------|---------| | draft | prepared, not sent — excluded from the public counter | | sent → viewed | delivered; the other side opened it | | reply → interview → offer → hired | it is going somewhere | | rejected / closed | over |

Mirroring is not applying. workix_share_jobs writes an outreach row with channel: "hub" so the mirror is auditable, but those rows are catalog copies, not messages to a client. workix_job_state keeps them out of outreach and out of applied, and reports them under hub_share instead — otherwise a reposted card would look like one you had already answered.

Outreach statuses: draft (written, not sent) · sent · ok (confirmed delivered/accepted) · reply (client answered) · skip (decided against it) · blocked (the platform refused — KYC, connects, ban). Log draft when the text is generated, then update the same id to sent/ok once the user approves and it actually goes out.

Session shape: open with workix_checkpoint_get so search resumes instead of restarting; close (or pause, or switch platform) with workix_checkpoint_set carrying what was done, what is next, which surfaces are finished, and what is blocked.

Local store and shared cache

Everything local lives in one SQLite file, $WORKIX_MCP_DATA/workix.db (default mcp/data/): job cards, drafts, the outreach log, checkpoints, hub shares, and the board response cache. It uses node:sqlite, which ships with Node — nothing compiles at install time, but it does mean Node 22.5+.

An existing store.json is imported on first start and renamed to store.json.migrated; the import runs once and the original is left on disk in case you want it back.

Why not the old JSON file. Every read parsed the whole store, so a 13MB file cost ~126ms per call — and wasShownInDigest() sits inside a filter loop, which turned a digest into a minute of pure parsing. It was also unsafe with more than one session: each MCP process did read-modify-write on the same file, so concurrent writes were lost, and a torn write made the loader fall back to an empty store and discard everything on the next save. Measured after the move: 500 wasShownInDigest calls went from ~63s to 9ms.

The cache is what makes a second session cheap. Board responses are keyed by source plus the parameters that shaped the request, so two sessions searching the same thing share one fetch. Measured on a full include_jobs run: 252s cold → 16.5s warm, and a separate process sees the same cache because it is on disk rather than in memory.

TTL is per source class, not global — a public RSS feed is cheap to re-read, a metered API is not, so JobsPipe holds results for hours while a feed holds them for minutes. Only successful, non-empty results are cached: a blocked board retries next run instead of staying dark.

workix_store_status                                  # rows, db size, what the cache is serving
workix_store_status {"prune_cache": true}            # drop expired entries
workix_store_status {"prune_jobs_days": 30}          # drop old cards with no work attached
workix_store_status {"clear_cache": "jobspipe"}      # or "all"

force_refresh: true on workix_digest / workix_search bypasses the cache for one run. Both report served_from_cache with each source's age, so a stale-looking digest is explainable rather than mysterious. Pruning never removes a card that carries work — anything shared to the hub, drafted, or referenced by an outreach entry stays regardless of age.

Downloadable platform modules

Core MCP always includes hub tools + RSS (FL / Weblancer / Djinni / Jobspresso / Reddit), Freelance.ru HTML (/task via RU SOCKS5), Product Radar hiring HTML (/category/hiring/?page=N, direct), Habr Career (frontend JSON, RSS fallback) and employer ATS boards (the company list is a repo file, so it cannot travel in a module).

Other boards ship as modules from the hub — 36 of them, covering 64 catalogued platforms:

| Registry | https://workix.co/mcp/registry.json | | Artifacts | https://workix.co/mcp/adapters/<id>-<version>.tgz | | Local cache | $WORKIX_MCP_DATA/adapters/<id>/<version>/ (default mcp/data/adapters) |

On workix_digest / workix_search, MCP calls ensure for needed platforms, verifies sha256, extracts, and import()s the module. Later runs reuse the cache.

Trust model: a module is executable code inside the MCP process. Downloads are limited to https hosts on an allowlist (workix.co + registry host; override with WORKIX_MCP_TRUSTED_HOSTS). Size is capped; tarball paths cannot escape the install dir. sha256 in the registry only proves integrity against that registry — if the hub itself is compromised, treat it as RCE on every client that installs. Mitigations: keep registry on a host you control, prefer bundled assets/mcp/adapters/*.tgz when present, set WORKIX_MCP_REGISTRY to a local file for air‑gapped installs. Opt-out for custom registries: WORKIX_MCP_ALLOW_UNTRUSTED_REGISTRY=1.

| Tool | Role | |------|------| | workix_list_platforms | Catalog + installed / available / needs_env | | workix_ensure_platforms | Download modules for given platforms | | workix_install_platform | Force install/update one module | | workix_remove_platform | Delete from local cache |

Override registry: WORKIX_MCP_REGISTRY (file path or URL). Offline fallback: assets/mcp/registry.json next to the repo / mcp/registry.local.json after npm run pack:adapters.

Contribute an adapter

mcp/
  platforms.json                 # platform id + "module": "<id>"
  src/adapters/<id>.ts           # fetch + normalize jobs
  src/module-entries/<id>.ts     # downloadable entry (meta + fetchJobs)
  scripts/pack-adapters.mjs      # → assets/mcp/adapters/*.tgz + registry.json
  src/tools/                     # MCP tool handlers
  src/index.ts                   # tool registration
  .env.example                   # document new env keys

After changing an adapter:

npm run build
npm run pack:adapters

PRs: new boards, better ranking, presets (presets.json), tests, docs. Never commit secrets or data/ dumps.

Adding or removing a platform — we work with everyone

Workix plays no favourites. If you run a job board, a freelance marketplace, your own MCP server, or a Telegram channel with vacancies, we are glad to include it — no partnership, contract or payment involved.

Open an issue and it goes both ways:

• Add me — name the source and how to reach it: public API, RSS feed, MCP endpoint, channel link. That is the whole requirement.
• Remove me — if you own the platform and would rather we did not read it, say so. We take it out, no argument about what your terms do or do not allow.
• Fix my entry — wrong limits, wrong attribution, wrong description of your terms: tell us and we correct it.

We honour attribution where it is required (Himalayas, Jobicy, Aquent), always link the employer's original apply URL rather than a copy, and never submit an application without an explicit human go-ahead.

The full catalogue of what is supported today — and of every third-party MCP server we probed, integrated or turned down — lives in docs/16-sources-and-partners.md.

Install

Needs Node 22.5 or newer — the local store uses the built-in node:sqlite, which keeps this dependency-free rather than pulling in a native SQLite module that has to compile on every machine.

cd mcp
npm install
npm run build
# optional: refresh local registry tarballs from source
npm run pack:adapters

On Windows ARM, native scripts may be disabled (.npmrc: ignore-scripts=true) because of optional native deps.

Cursor mcp.json

Recommended (from source — always the freshest build):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "workix": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["FULL/PATH/TO/Workix/mcp/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "WORKIX_API": "https://workix.co",
        "WORKIX_AGENT_KEY": "wix_…"
      }
    }
  }
}

Optional npm shortcut: "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@workix/mcp"] (may lag behind the GitHub mcp/ tree).

Optional board credentials (examples — see .env.example):

• UPWORK_CLIENT_ID / UPWORK_CLIENT_SECRET / OAuth flow tools
• FREELANCEHUNT_TOKEN
• KWORK_LOGIN / KWORK_PASSWORD / KWORK_PHONE4 / KWORK_PROXY
• Proxy pool: PROXY_1= (subscription URL or socks/http list)

Never send platform passwords to the hub — only to this local process.

Profile

cp profile.example.md profile.md

Optional: WORKIX_PROFILE_PATH, WORKIX_MCP_DATA.

Hub tools (need WORKIX_API; writes need WORKIX_AGENT_KEY)

| Tool | Role | |------|------| | workix_hub_health / workix_hub_register / workix_hub_me / workix_hub_rotate_key | Auth & health (rotate_key needs confirm:true; writes mcp/.env by default) | | workix_list_startups / workix_get_startup / workix_create_startup / workix_update_startup | Projects — products, startups, early ideas OK (pending = publish) | | workix_list_performers / workix_get_performer | Performers (builders + bloggers/creators) + their listings | | workix_list_hub_orders / workix_get_hub_order | Hub orders (scraped / external → no personal publisher card; detail may include external) | | workix_list_roles / workix_create_role / workix_update_role | Roles / orders (concrete asks; paid or cofounder) | | workix_share_jobs | Mirror local board job ids → hub catalog (POST /orders/share; prefer digest flag) | | workix_get_profile / workix_update_profile | Create/update own performer card via MCP; claim vanity slug → shareable https://workix.co/{slug} + free CV PDF https://workix.co/{slug}/pdf (also /{slug}.json) |

Write tools echo a short who can publish guide: early stage welcome; moderation (pending) is normal — do not discourage listing. | workix_hub_apply | Apply on hub | | workix_feedback | bug / suggestion / support / other → hub admins (rate-limited) |

Rate limits (429): hub and dStore errors include rateLimited: true, human message, retryAfterSec, optional limits, and an agent hint — do not retry until the cooldown passes.

Board tools (local credentials)

| Tool | Role | |------|------| | workix_dstore_search / _similar / _get / _publish / _list / _quota | dStore catalog — same REST as official dstore-mcp (api.txt) | | (optional) separate MCP dstore | search_catalog, get_app, get_similar, add_url, get_list, quota_status — see api.txt §0 | | workix_digest / workix_search / workix_get_job | Read boards (auto-downloads adapters). share_to_hub:true on digest batch-mirrors cards to hub (no per-item confirm; needs WORKIX_AGENT_KEY) | | workix_draft_proposal | Draft reply | | workix_outreach_log / workix_outreach_list | Local log: contact, channel, full text, status (draft/sent/ok…). Mirror into docs/apply-log-*.md | | workix_track_apply | The application actually went out → record it on workix.co (publishes the job if missing, stores status + date + the sent text, privately) | | workix_list_applies / workix_update_apply / workix_sync_applies | Cross-device apply history and past texts · move the funnel · pull the history into a fresh local store | | workix_checkpoint_set / workix_checkpoint_get | Search pause/resume: where stopped, next, surfaces. Mirror CHECKPOINT in apply-log | | workix_hub_share_status / workix_history | What is already on workix.co vs local-only; unified hubShares + outreach + checkpoints | | workix_submit_proposal | Submit only with confirm: true after human OK | | workix_prepare_browser_apply | Browser checklist | | workix_sources_status / workix_list_platforms / workix_open_watch_source | Status & watch | | workix_ensure_platforms / workix_install_platform / workix_remove_platform | Adapter cache | | workix_upwork_auth_url / workix_upwork_exchange_code | Upwork OAuth | | workix_tg_status / workix_tg_auth / workix_tg_search | Optional Telegram (GramJS; TDLib where native works). Install: npm install telegram. Env: TG_APP_API_ID + TG_APP_API_HASH. Login: npm run tg:login. |

hh.ru session

Полная инструкция: HH.md. Логин в браузере, статусы откликов, чтение переписки, полуручная отправка.

cd mcp
npm run hh:login    # логин/пароль вводишь сам в окне Chrome
npm run hh:check    # проверить сессию

api.hh.ru анонимно отдаёт 403, поэтому поиск идёт через залогиненный сайт; куки и профиль лежат только в mcp/data/ и на хаб не уходят.

Перед тем как автоматизировать отклики — прочитай раздел «Три грабли» в HH.md. Клик по «Откликнуться» может сам по себе быть откликом, поле хранит черновик, а page.type() отправляет форму на переводах строк. Каждая из этих трёх особенностей уже стоила реального отклика.

Optional Telegram

Полная инструкция: TELEGRAM.md. На Windows ARM64 — только GramJS (telegram), не prebuilt-tdlib.

cd mcp
npm install telegram
# TG_APP_API_ID + TG_APP_API_HASH in .env
npm run tg:login          # phone/code в терминале
# restart MCP → workix_tg_status → workix_tg_search

Job boards on include_jobs (added 2026-08-09)

No flag beyond include_jobs: true, no key:

| Source | Region | Endpoint | |--------|--------|----------| | Trudvsem (Работа России) | RU | open data /api/v1/vacancies — 514k live postings | | Employer ATS boards | global | Greenhouse · Ashby · Lever · SmartRecruiters · Workable, one call per company | | Djinni | UA/EU | djinni.co/jobs/rss/ | | NoFluffJobs | PL/EU | /api/joboffers/main (3.7MB, not the 140MB /api/posting) | | Landing.jobs | PT/EU | /api/v1/jobs | | Get on Board | LATAM | /api/v0/search/jobs | | Jobspresso | global remote | ?feed=job_feed | | Reddit | global | Atom only — the JSON API is OAuth-gated and 403s datacenter IPs | | getmatch (added 2026-08-10) | RU / relocate | /api/offers — open salary on most cards, no server-side search | | HN "Who is hiring?" (added 2026-08-10) | global | the monthly thread via hn.algolia.com/api/v1 |

| Dice (added 2026-08-10) | US tech-only | its own MCP server — see below |

Two notes on getmatch and HN. getmatch has no server-side search at all — q, search, text, query and sq are silently dropped, so keywords are matched here over a page pulled in full (GETMATCH_LIMIT, default 100 of 750). HN keeps only top-level comments of the "Who is hiring?" thread: a reply is discussion, not a posting, and the thread's own rule that posters must be hiring directly is why it carries no recruiter spam and a live contact in the body. HN_HIRING_STORY=<id> reads a specific month instead of the current one.

ATS coverage is the company list in ats-companies.json — add rows to widen it, or override the file with ATS_COMPANIES=greenhouse:stripe,ashby:linear. The apply URL is the employer's own board, so it never goes stale the way an aggregator copy does.

Boards that only speak MCP

Some boards ship no public REST API at all — their MCP server is the public surface. Workix talks to them as a client through src/mcpClient.ts (JSON-RPC over streamable HTTP, SSE-aware, session-header aware), the same way the JobSpy bridge talks to somebody else's scrapers instead of reimplementing them.

| Board | Server | Auth | State | |-------|--------|------|-------| | Dice | mcp.dice.com/mcp | none | ✅ open — 2 574 hits for "python", live apply URLs | | Workopia | workopia.io/api/mcp-jobs | free account | 🔑 tools/list is anonymous, tools/call is not |

Dice is worth naming for two fields nothing else here carries: a salary on most cards, and willingToSponsor — visa sponsorship as a filter (DICE_SPONSOR_ONLY=1, or willing_to_sponsor per call; 274 of those 2 574 sponsor). Its posted_date is a case-sensitive enum — ONE/THREE/SEVEN, and lowercase gets you a pydantic error rather than a coercion, so the adapter maps hours onto it for you.

Workopia aggregates ATS boards (Lever, Greenhouse, Workday, career pages) across 90+ countries — same class of source as our own ats adapter, with somebody else's coverage.

There is no API key to paste. The server advertises OAuth 2.0 with dynamic client registration and PKCE as a public client (token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported: ["none"]), so the token has to be earned by running the flow once:

cd mcp && npm run workopia:login

It registers a client, prints an authorize URL, and catches the redirect on 127.0.0.1 — the password is typed in the browser and never passes through Workix. The grant lands in mcp/data/workopia-tokens.json and refreshes itself afterwards. WORKOPIA_TOKEN still works as an escape hatch if you hold a bearer token from somewhere else.

It also needs a city — job_tool requires one, and an empty value returns nothing rather than searching everywhere. Resolved in this order, so most people never set anything:

1. the city argument on the call
2. WORKOPIA_CITY
3. your mcp/profile.md — either an explicit city: Berlin line, or the Гео / язык: line the example profile already ships

A two-letter code is rejected on purpose: Гео / язык: RU, EN means a country and a language, and searching for a city named "RU" returns nonsense, which is worse than skipping with a message. Remote and Worldwide are passed through verbatim — Workopia documents no wildcard, so * would be a guess; confirm what it accepts once you are signed in.

Without a token or a city the board skips quietly instead of failing the digest.

Probed and rejected on 2026-08-10, so nobody re-runs it: Indeed MCP (Claude-connector only, no reachable endpoint), Fantastic.jobs / Career Site Jobs (403 Missing Authentication Token — RapidAPI/Apify, paid), hiring.cafe (401), The Best Job Board (no working MCP path). Himalayas, Jobicy, Aquent and AI Dev Jobs do run MCP servers, but we already read their REST APIs directly, so the bridge would add a hop and nothing else.

Workable, Workato and WorkflowMAX are not job sources, despite sitting next to Workopia in the connector directory. mcp.workable.com is the employer side of an ATS — its scopes are r_candidates/w_candidates, r_employees, w_timeoff, w_reviews: you connect your own company account to manage hiring, not to search other companies' openings. Workato is an iPaaS whose MCP server is generated per customer from your own recipes ({n}.apim.mcp.workato.com, 401 without your tenant). WorkflowMAX is a Xero product for trades, where "jobs" are work orders inside your own account. None of the three exposes anybody else's vacancies.

What Workable does give us is the public ATS endpoint we already support — see below.

Four more light up as soon as their free key is in .env — USAJOBS, SuperJob, Careerjet, Jooble. JobsPipe needs a key too but stays out of the automatic digest because it is metered (see below). Until then they skip silently. Which are on:

workix_sources_status   # → keyed_boards

Check every new source against the live APIs:

node scripts/smoke-new-sources.mjs

Optional JobSpy bridge — Indeed, LinkedIn, Google Jobs, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Bayt, Naukri, BDjobs

These eight are opt-in and read-only. They are not touched by a plain workix_digest — you have to name them: platforms: ["indeed"]. Applying from the agent is not possible on any of them; they link out to an external ATS.

Two of them need a word of warning:

• Google Jobs ignores the plain search term. JobSpy pastes google_search_term into the Google Jobs box verbatim, so phrase the query the way you would type it there — "software engineer jobs near London since yesterday", not "software engineer".
• LinkedIn is the most rate-limited board here (it throttles around page 10 from one IP) and omits the body from search results. JOBSPY_LINKEDIN_DESCRIPTIONS=1 fetches descriptions at the cost of one extra request per card.

A note on proxies: refreshJobs hands JobSpy the same pool the rest of the adapters use, but only the http:///https:// entries. JobSpy drives requests, which cannot open a socks5:// tunnel without PySocks and fails the whole board with "Missing dependencies for SOCKS support" — worse than no proxy at all, since LinkedIn pulls fine direct. pip install PySocks in the same venv if you want your SOCKS pool used here too.

They are served by one adapter that calls JobSpy (MIT) installed on your own machine. We do not vendor its scrapers: the boards are reached through private endpoints with credentials that ship inside the JobSpy release, and those belong in your install, not in our package.

Install

Python must be 3.10–3.12. python-jobspy pins numpy==1.26.3, which has no wheels for 3.13 — pip falls back to a source build and dies in meson. This is the single most common way to get stuck.

python -m venv .jobspy && .jobspy/bin/pip install -U python-jobspy

On Windows the interpreter is .jobspy\Scripts\python.exe. Already on 3.13? Get a 3.12 without touching your system Python:

pip install uv && uv python install 3.12

Then create the venv with that interpreter and point the MCP at it:

# .env — full path to the venv's python
PYTHON_BIN=/abs/path/.jobspy/bin/python

PYTHON_BIN is optional if a suitable python3/python is already first on PATH, but with a venv you almost always want it set explicitly.

Verify

workix_digest {"platforms":["indeed"],"include_jobs":true,"keywords":["python"]}

Not installed → the tool says so and how to fix it, rather than returning an empty list.

Or skip the bridge: JobsPipe

JobsPipe normalizes 39 feeds behind one key — LinkedIn, Indeed, Y Combinator, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workday, Workable, Paylocity and more. No Python, no numpy==1.26.3 pin, and no 403, because the request goes to their server rather than to the board.

It is metered: one credit per job returned, free tier 1000/month. So unlike every other board it does not run on a bare include_jobs — that would let a scheduled digest eat the month unnoticed. Three ways in:

| | | |--|--| | workix_jobspipe_search | aimed query; reports spent_this_call and remaining_this_month | | platforms: ["jobspipe"] | pull it inside a digest, once | | JOBSPIPE_IN_DIGEST=1 | opt in to every include_jobs run |

workix_jobspipe_usage        # credits left this month
workix_jobspipe_usage {"reset": true}   # plan renewed off-cycle

The counter lives in data/jobspipe-usage.json and tracks what this MCP spent — it is a guard rail, not a bill. The adapter refuses to start a call once JOBSPIPE_MONTHLY_BUDGET is gone, and never asks for more rows than the remaining budget.

Filters go well past a title: companies, skills, locations, countries, sources / exclude_sources (pick or drop individual feeds), seniority, exclude_titles. Same role from LinkedIn and from the company's Greenhouse board arrives as two rows — provenance is in raw.sources.

workix_company_tech_stack wraps their stack scanner (frameworks, CDN, analytics, payments, with confidence scores). It runs on their MCP endpoint, has no REST route, and costs no job credits — handy for naming a company's real stack in a proposal.

JobsPipe is read-only: /v1/jobs, /v1/jobs/ingest → 404. It indexes other people's boards and does not accept postings.

When a board returns nothing

Boards block aggressively and JobSpy reports failures by logging and returning an empty result, not by raising — so the adapter reads its log and tells you which it was. A real example:

glassdoor: jobspy glassdoor (v1.1.82) returned nothing and logged:
Glassdoor: bad response status code: 403

That is a block, not an empty search. Usual causes and fixes:

• Credentials rotated upstream — the keys live inside the JobSpy release, so a board rotating them breaks every JobSpy user at once. Fix: pip install -U python-jobspy.
• Rate limited — wait, and pass proxies. Every board here throttles; LinkedIn is the worst, Indeed the most forgiving.
• Geo-blocked or location required — Glassdoor in particular wants a parseable location.

If a board returns nothing and logs nothing at all, the adapter says that too, because an empty list with no reason is the one answer that tells you nothing. Widen the query first; if a browser shows results for the same search, it is JobSpy's parser, not you.

Live status — 2026-08-10, python-jobspy 1.1.82

All eight tested against live traffic from one ordinary datacenter IP, no proxies. Indeed and LinkedIn worked.

| Board | Result | What it is | |-------|--------|------------| | Indeed | ✅ live jobs | — | | LinkedIn | ✅ 50 live jobs through the digest | descriptions need JOBSPY_LINKEDIN_DESCRIPTIONS=1 | | Google Jobs | ❌ 0 rows, no error | HTTP 200 from /search?udm=8, parser extracts nothing — upstream markup drift | | Bayt | ❌ 403 | IP-level block; needs an http:// proxy | | Glassdoor | ❌ 403 | IP-level block | | ZipRecruiter | ❌ 403 forbidden aa (CFRAY) | Cloudflare | | Naukri | ❌ ReadTimeout | unreachable from here, likely geo | | BDjobs | ❌ TypeError in BDJobs.__init__ | upstream bug — broken for everyone |

The blocks depend on where you are calling from and may work over proxies or from another network. BDjobs and Google Jobs cannot work for anybody until JobSpy fixes them, so treat those two as unavailable rather than as something you configured wrong.

Terms: these boards forbid automated collection. Installing this module is your decision and running it is your responsibility.

Rule: never submit a proposal without explicit user approval.

Smoke

npm run smoke
npm run smoke:startups

Dev

npm run dev