What is recruiting-reports-mcp?

This repository is a knowledge base of more than 30 recruiting industry benchmark reports that you can query through Claude using plain English. Instead of downloading PDFs or searching through separate documents, you connect this server to Claude and ask questions like "What is the average time to fill a role at a 500-person company?" or "What does Gem's data say about outreach reply rates?" and Claude retrieves the relevant figures directly. The reports come from well-known recruiting and HR research sources including Ashby, LinkedIn, SHRM, Greenhouse, Korn Ferry, HireVue, Mercer, and about a dozen others. A weekly automated process adds newly published reports as they become available, so the knowledge base stays current without manual updates. Connecting it to Claude takes a few minutes. For Claude.ai on a paid plan, you go into Settings, find the Connectors section, and paste in a URL that points to the hosted server. No software installation is required for this method. If you use Claude Code on the command line, you add a short entry to a config file and restart the tool. Either way, once the connection is active you can ask recruiting questions in any chat session and Claude will pull from the reports. For developers who want to run the server themselves, the README covers how to start it locally in two modes: a stdio mode for direct use with Claude Code, and an HTTP mode that starts a local web server. There are also instructions for adding new reports to the collection by following a specific format described in a contributing guide.