Jobs MCP Server

4dayweek.io MCP server

A free, read-only Model Context Protocol server over 4dayweek.io, a job board for roles with genuinely reduced working hours: 4-day weeks, 9-day fortnights, half-day Fridays and more.

Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex or any other MCP client and your assistant can search live listings and employers directly, instead of scraping the site. There is no API key and no sign-up.

This repository holds the manifest and the documentation. The server itself runs on 4dayweek.io; there is nothing to install or host.

Add it to your assistant

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http 4dayweek https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp

Claude (web and desktop) — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp. No authentication needed.

ChatGPT — Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode, then add a connector pointing at https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp.

Codex

codex mcp add 4dayweek --url https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp

or in ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.4dayweek]
url = "https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp"

Cursor — .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json globally:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "4dayweek": {
      "url": "https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code — .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "4dayweek": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Anything else — the transport is streamable HTTP, so any MCP client can reach it directly:

curl -X POST https://4dayweek.io/api/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{
        "protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},
        "clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1.0"}}}'

As a Claude Code plugin

This repository doubles as a Claude Code plugin marketplace, so the connector can be installed by name and listed alongside your other plugins:

/plugin marketplace add 4dayweek/mcp
/plugin install 4dayweek@4dayweek-io

The claude mcp add line above does the same job in one command; the plugin route just keeps it in your plugin list and updates with this repository.

Tools

Six tools. Every one is read-only and says so in the protocol, so a cautious client can call them freely.

Try it

Find me remote 4-day-week engineering jobs open to applicants in the UK.
What is a 9-day fortnight, and is it the same as a compressed week?
Which employers run a genuine 4-day week at full pay, and how many are there?
Tell me about AWIN's 4-day week, and how it was verified.
Show me senior product roles at 32 hours a week, posted in the last fortnight.

A compressed 4x10 is not a 4-day week

This is the distinction the tool descriptions exist to carry. A compressed week packs the same 40 hours into four days; a 4-day week is 36 hours or fewer with no cut in pay. Every listing carries an explicit schedule type, and explain_schedule_type states, for any schedule, whether it genuinely reduces weekly hours and whether that reduction is at full pay — so an assistant reading these tools gets it right without being prompted.

Limits and behaviour

• Rate limit: 300 requests per minute sustained, bursting to 60. X-RateLimit-Limit reports the burst ceiling.
• Paging: 10 results per page by default, 25 maximum, up to page 200. Responses carry has_more and next_page, and say so when the page ceiling is reached.
• Read-only by construction: the server can only reach read methods — a tool that writes would not compile. Nothing you send is stored as user data, and there is no account to create.
• Applications happen on the site. get_job returns the job's page on 4dayweek.io and whether the employer takes applications on-site or elsewhere; it never returns the employer's raw application URL.

Privacy

The endpoint is anonymous. Each call is logged with the requesting IP, user agent, path, timestamp and the name of the tool called, for abuse prevention and to see which tools are used — at most 14 days, in practice about two. No account, no cookies, no personal data. Full policy: https://4dayweek.io/privacy

Licence

The contents of this repository — the manifest, this documentation and the configuration snippets — are MIT licensed (see LICENSE and NOTICE).

That is not a licence to the data. Results returned by the API and the MCP endpoint are covered by section 10 of our Terms: a limited, revocable licence to use and display them in your own product, conditioned on crediting 4dayweek.io and linking back, staying within the rate limits, not misstating an employer's working-hours policy, and not using them to build a competing job board. Our aggregate market statistics are separately published under CC BY 4.0 on our data page.

Support

• Documentation: https://4dayweek.io/mcp
• Contact: https://4dayweek.io/contact