For agents

Find a mentor from the chat you're already in.

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Grok are great until you need someone who's done the job. Add MentorCruise once. Search works right away. When you apply, Connect in the browser, then the assistant can send an application in your words and book a call. If you'd rather not set anything up, talk to the matcher here.

What you can do

Search real mentors, then apply, message, pay, and book a call from the chat. Search works without signing in. Applying, messaging, paying, and booking wait on Connect so we know it is you.

Your assistant can

• Search the live directory. Not names guessed from training data.
• Apply in your words, then tell you when the mentor accepts.
• Pay from your account, including a one-off session.
• Read and send messages once you and the mentor are talking.
• Book an intro call or a mentorship call when a slot is open.

When the assistant asks you to Connect, finish it in the browser: email, the check, then the 6-digit code on that page. You do not paste the code back into the chat. If you are already signed in as a mentee, click Allow. The assistant never sees a password.

If you're new here: that opens a mentee account.

Already have an account: use the same email. We do not open a second profile.

If Connect is not available, give the assistant your email. Open the link we send, complete the check, then paste the 6-digit code in the chat.

Claude

On claude.ai, Cowork, or Claude Desktop: Customize, Connectors, +, Add custom connector. Name it MentorCruise. Paste https://mentorcruise.com/mcp.

• Authentication: Required when the server asks. Search works without signing in.
• OAuth client: No client ID – register one automatically. Leave extra headers empty.

Click Add. When you apply, complete Connect in the browser.

Or add it as a local Desktop server. Open claude_desktop_config.json on macOS under Application Support/Claude, or on Windows under %APPDATA%\Claude. Paste this in, save, and restart Claude.

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

Claude Code

Add the server yourself. The Claude plugin is not in the store yet, so this is the supported path for now. Search works right away. Applying, messaging, paying, and booking need Connect once.

claude mcp add --transport http mentorcruise https://mentorcruise.com/mcp
claude mcp login mentorcruise

Use the URL without a trailing slash. If you already added https://mentorcruise.com/mcp/, remove it and re-add the canonical URL so OAuth tokens match.

In a session, run /mcp to Connect or re-authenticate. Finish email + the browser check + the 6-digit code on that page. Do not paste the code back into the chat. After Connect, the assistant can apply, message, pay, and book for you.

ChatGPT

Add the connector yourself. The ChatGPT store plugin is on an older version, so we do not recommend it.

Developer mode under Settings, Security and login, then ChatGPT Plugins, +. Connection: Server URL. Paste https://mentorcruise.com/mcp. Authentication: OAuth. Check I understand and want to continue, then Create. Search works without signing in. When you apply, complete Connect in the browser.

Grok

On grok.com/connectors: New Connector, Custom. Paste https://mentorcruise.com/mcp. Search works without signing in. When you apply, complete Connect in the browser.

Cursor

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, then reload. Search works after that. When you apply, Cursor will ask you to Connect.

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

Other assistants work the same way, including VS Code and Claude Code. Add that URL, then search from the chat. If the assistant supports Connect, finish it in the browser. If not, confirm by email in the chat.

A playbook for a better shortlist

The connection above can send an application and pay from your account. The skill is a playbook. mentorcruise/skills teaches the assistant how to interview you and search our directory, so it stops recommending random names from training data.

It will not apply or pay for you. Use it when you want a better shortlist in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or similar. Use the connection above when you want the assistant to send the application.

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 setup

You don't have to install anything. The matcher on this site already knows our mentors. It asks about your goal, suggests a few people, and can draft the first message.

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