# MentorCruise for agents

Your chat can find a mentor. You still decide who to hire.

Point Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor at MentorCruise. It searches live profiles, sends an application in your words, and pays from credits on your account. If you would rather not install anything, talk to the matcher on this site.

- Human page: https://mentorcruise.com/agents/
- This file: https://mentorcruise.com/agents.md
- MCP: https://mentorcruise.com/mcp
- Skill: `npx skills add mentorcruise/skills`
- Implementer spec: https://mentorcruise.com/docs/mcp.md

## MCP

Add `https://mentorcruise.com/mcp` as a Streamable HTTP server. Leave auth empty. Search works immediately. Applying and paying wait on an email code.

### New here

Tell the assistant the email you want to use. We send a link and a 6-digit code. Open the link in your browser and complete the check. Then paste the code back into the chat. That creates a mentee account. The assistant never sees a password. We set a random one.

From there it can send applications in your words, watch for an acceptance, pay from credits, and hand you a one-use link to the dashboard.

### Already have an account

Use the same email. We do not open a second profile. After the code, applications and payments land on the account you already have, including mentorships you started in the browser.

If you are already signed in on the site, you still need the email code in the assistant. That is how we know it is you, not someone else talking to Claude.

### Paying

Agent payments top up MentorCruise credits. They do not open a subscription on the mentor's Stripe account. When a mentor accepts, the assistant pays the plan from that credit balance.

If credits are short, it charges through Stripe machine payments and Link Agent Wallet, then retries. Minimum top-up is $1. One-off session bookings still need a click in the browser.

### Claude Desktop

Edit `claude_desktop_config.json` on macOS under Application Support/Claude, or on Windows under `%APPDATA%\Claude`. Restart Claude after you save.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mentorcruise": {
      "transport": {
        "type": "streamable-http",
        "url": "https://mentorcruise.com/mcp"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### ChatGPT

Plus or Pro: Settings, Connectors, Add, Custom MCP server. URL `https://mentorcruise.com/mcp`. Leave auth empty. You verify by email inside the chat when you apply.

### Cursor

Add this to `~/.cursor/mcp.json` and reload MCP.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mentorcruise": {
      "url": "https://mentorcruise.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Other clients that speak Streamable HTTP work the same way. Point them at that URL.

## Skill

MCP is a live connection. The skill is a playbook. [mentorcruise/skills](https://github.com/mentorcruise/skills) teaches the assistant how to interview you, search our directory, and stop recommending random names from training data.

It does not apply or pay. Use it when you want a better shortlist inside Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or anything that speaks the Agent Skills spec. Use MCP when you want the assistant to send the application.

CLI:

```
npx skills add mentorcruise/skills
```

Claude on the web:

1. Settings, Capabilities: turn on code execution and file creation.
2. Download the skill as a zip from the [releases page](https://github.com/mentorcruise/skills/releases).
3. Customize, Skills, upload the zip, toggle it on.

Then say "find me a mentor for a backend-to-ML move" or run `/find-mentor product management`. It asks one question at a time, returns up to three people, and writes a goal statement you can paste into an application.

## Matcher on this site

You do not have to install anything. The matcher on MentorCruise already knows the catalog, with the intro draft and ranking rules in place. It can hold a ready-to-send outreach message. That is the version we tune against real applications.

Start at https://mentorcruise.com/get-started/. No account for the first messages. For a full career roadmap instead of a shortlist, use https://mentorcruise.com/roadmap/.