Recruiting from Cursor: SourceGeek for technical recruiters and hiring engineers

Cursor is where many engineering leads and technical recruiters already spend their day. Its agent reads files, follows instructions and calls tools. Add SourceGeek as a tool, and the agent can source candidates for the role you are describing in the very repository that role will work on.

Why recruit from an editor

• The context is already there. Point the agent at the repository's README or the team's hiring doc and it knows the stack, the seniority and the must-haves.
• Markdown in, markdown out. Keep job descriptions and scorecards as files; SourceGeek's shortlists come back as markdown you can commit or share.
• Engineers can help without a new tool. A hiring engineer can check a shortlist or ask for five more profiles without logging in anywhere else.

What the agent can do with SourceGeek

• Search candidates, companies and job postings in plain language.
• Read public LinkedIn data on people, companies, jobs and posts (read only; SourceGeek never sends messages).
• Save candidates as a sheet in your SourceGeek workspace, score them against a job description and create an evidence-backed shortlist.
• Read and update your workspace's shared memory and context.

Add SourceGeek to Cursor

1. Open the SourceGeek MCP page and select Add to Cursor, or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcegeek": {
      "url": "https://chat.sourcegeek.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

2. Open Cursor Settings, then MCP, and select Connect next to sourcegeek.
3. Sign in to SourceGeek and choose your workspace.

You need a SourceGeek account. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Searches, employee data lookups and scoring use your workspace's credits.

Your first prompt

Read hiring/frontend-lead.md, then find senior React engineers in Amsterdam, save them as a sheet and score them against it.

Or, without a file:

Find senior React engineers in Amsterdam, save them as a sheet and score them against this job description: …

The other assistants and the full list of tools are on the SourceGeek MCP page.