# HiringCensus

> Is this company actually hiring, or is the board just still up? Real dates on 187,923 roles.

- name: com.hiringcensus/hiring-census
- version: 1.1.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 78/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 79/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.hiringcensus%2Fhiring-census
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.hiringcensus%2Fhiring-census/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hiring-census": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${HIRING_CENSUS_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Placeholders to fill: `${HIRING_CENSUS_TOKEN}`.

## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 96
- freshness: 85
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-89% ~updated-50d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 79/100 (good)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-06-18; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 71 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- fail `tools.annotations`: no tool declares readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, so clients cannot tell safe calls from risky ones
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: check_company (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); hiring_stats (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); find_quiet_boards (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 826 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: no tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 6, about 826 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: c5c176bc84449fb635936e784d0dcf15
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/com.hiringcensus/hiring-census.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/com.hiringcensus/hiring-census)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

_No tool definition changes recorded._

## Remotes

- https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.8947368)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (6)

- `check_company`: Ask whether a company is ACTUALLY hiring, not just whether it has jobs listed. Returns a verdict on the board -- actively_hiring, still_open, gone_quiet or likely_abandoned -- with the age of the newest posting, the median role age, and how many reqs have sat open over 90 days and over a year. This is the check that tells you whether an application or a sales approach is worth the time.
- `find_fresh_boards`: Companies where EVERY currently open role was posted in the last 30 days -- no backlog of applicants ahead of you, and usually a team that just started hiring. For sales, a company that just opened its first roles in a function is one whose budget has recently moved.
- `find_quiet_boards`: Companies still advertising open roles while having posted nothing new in over six months. Strong evidence of a board nobody tidied up after the hiring finished. Useful for striking dead accounts off a prospect list, or for avoiding applications that will never be read.
- `hiring_stats`: Market-level hiring numbers measured this morning across every board we read: employers hiring, open roles, how many went up in the last 24 hours, how many have been open over 90 days and over a year, how many boards have gone quiet, and the most in-demand technologies.
- `search_jobs`: Search open job postings read directly from employers' own Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever boards. Unlike a job board, every result carries the employer's real publish date and age in days, so you can tell a role posted this morning from one that has been open two years.
- `whats_changed`: What actually MOVED, on a list of companies you name or across the whole record. Answers the question a person with a book of accounts has every morning: which of mine changed, and is anyone suddenly ramping? Returns NET movement, because a company that opened 342 roles and closed 317 is churning and one that opened 261 and closed 41 is hiring -- and flags a board whose VERDICT flipped, which is a budget unfreezing and the strongest signal in this data.