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Summary
Manage Lever ATS (candidates, opportunities, postings, stages, feedback) from any AI agent. 10 tools, basic-auth.
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Example prompts for Lever
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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Lever + Cursor
Manage Lever ATS (candidates, opportunities, postings, stages, feedback) from any AI agent. 10 tools, basic-auth.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
LEVER_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
This connector wraps the Lever Hire API v1 (api.lever.co/v1).
Setup:
- In Lever → Settings → Integrations and API → API Credentials → Generate new key.
- Set
LEVER_API_KEY. - Sandbox: use
https://api.sandbox.lever.co/v1instead during testing.
Authentication: HTTP Basic — API key as username, empty password.
Opportunity vs Candidate: in Lever's modern API, an Opportunity represents a candidate's interest in a single posting. A person can have multiple opportunities (one per role). The legacy Candidate endpoint still works but Opportunity is preferred.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Cursor
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:
{
"mcpServers": {
"anythingmcp": {
"url": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
"headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
}
}
}
- Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
- Save the file and restart Cursor.
- Open Cursor → Settings → MCP to verify
Leveris listed and "Connected". - Start chatting — all
Levertools are now invokable.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
lever_list_opportunities | List opportunities (candidate × posting) |
lever_get_opportunity | Get one opportunity with full contact, links, tags, applications |
lever_create_opportunity | Create an opportunity (candidate with associated posting) |
lever_update_opportunity_stage | Move an opportunity to a different stage |
lever_archive_opportunity | Archive an opportunity with an archive reason |
lever_list_postings | List job postings |
lever_list_stages | List pipeline stages |
lever_list_users | List Lever users (recruiters, hiring managers) |
lever_list_archive_reasons | List archive reasons configured in the org |
lever_list_feedback | List interview feedback forms attached to an opportunity |
FAQ
Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.
Next steps
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