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Paste the setup prompt below into Claude Code. Your assistant adds SeekOut directly to its user configuration so you can use it across projects. Looking for the Chat tab or Claude.ai? Follow the Claude connector guide.

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Before you start

  • A SeekOut Recruit license and your SeekOut sign-in
  • A local session in the Claude Desktop Code tab or Claude Code CLI, with permission to edit your configuration

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Connect with a prompt

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Copy and send the setup prompt

Select Copy prompt, paste it into a local Claude Code session, and send it.

Add SeekOut MCP to my Claude Code configuration, preserve my other settings, and help me sign in.

Claude Code adds seekout-search to your user configuration and preserves your other settings. If it requests permission to write the file, approve that change to continue.
2

Load the server and sign in

Restart the local Code session if requested. Enter /mcp in Claude Code, select seekout-search, and choose Authenticate. Complete the SeekOut sign-in in your browser, then return to Claude Code.
3

Verify the connection

Run /mcp again to check the server status, then ask Claude Code to run the credit check below. Saving the configuration is the first step; a successful tool call confirms the connection.
The default user configuration is ~/.claude.json. User scope makes SeekOut available across projects, including local Code sessions in the desktop app. See Claude Code’s MCP configuration and shared desktop configuration.

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Verify your first connection

Ask Claude Code to make a read-only SeekOut call:

Check my remaining SeekOut credits using the connected SeekOut tools.

You are connected when Claude Code calls the SeekOut credit-check tool and returns your account’s credit information. Approve the tool call if Claude asks. Then try a search:

Find five senior product managers in Seattle with fintech experience using SeekOut. Include a short explanation for each match.

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Manual setup

Run this in your terminal:
Or merge this into your Claude Code user configuration, preserving existing settings and other entries in mcpServers:
Start a new local Claude Code session, enter /mcp, select seekout-search, and authenticate. To inspect the saved server from your terminal, run claude mcp get seekout-search.

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Troubleshooting

Paste the complete prompt into a local Code session with file-editing tools. Approve the configuration-file write if requested. For Claude’s Chat tab, use the Claude connector guide.
Send the setup prompt above to configure SeekOut at user scope. If one project still uses an older endpoint, ask Claude Code to inspect that project’s MCP settings: a local or project entry can override the user entry.See Claude Code’s MCP scopes.
Enter /mcp inside Claude Code, select seekout-search, and authenticate. Keep the session open until browser sign-in completes, then retry the credit check.
Start a new local Code session after saving the configuration. CLI configuration on your machine does not configure a cloud or remote machine. The setup prompt targets Claude Code’s .claude.json, rather than the chat app’s claude_desktop_config.json.
For account or service errors, see connection troubleshooting.