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.

How a conversation actually goes

1. Ask for someone specific. "Staff backend mentor under $250 a month" works. The directory is live, not a guess from training data.
2. New here? Give the assistant your email. Open the link we send, complete the check in your browser, then paste the 6-digit code. That opens a mentee account. The assistant never gets a password.
3. Already have an account? Same email. We do not make a second profile. Applications and payments land where your browser ones already live.
4. Apply in your words. When the mentor accepts, pay from credits. If the balance is short, the assistant tops up through Stripe machine payments, then retries.

Paying

Agent charges add credits on MentorCruise. They do not open a card on the mentor's Stripe account. When a mentor accepts, the plan is paid from that credit balance.

Minimum top-up is $1. One-off session bookings still need a click 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.

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "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.

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

Other clients that speak Streamable HTTP work the same way. Point them at that URL. The implementer spec, including REST and payment headers, is the Markdown reference.

Load the skill into your own agent

MCP is a live connection. The skill is a playbook. 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.

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.
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.

Or skip the plugin

The matcher on this site is the same catalog, with the intro draft and ranking rules already in place. It can hold a ready-to-send outreach message. That is the version we tune against real applications.

Start at /get-started. No account for the first messages. If you want a full career roadmap instead of a shortlist, there is /roadmap.