Lemon.io MCP

Hire vetted senior developers, draft job descriptions, and prepare technical interviews — right inside your Claude conversation.

Lemon.io MCP is a remote Model Context Protocol server that connects Claude to Lemon.io, a marketplace of pre-vetted senior developers. Describe your project in chat, and Claude gathers the details, shows you a preview, and — on your confirmation — submits the hiring request to Lemon.io. You can also generate tailored job descriptions and pull technical interview questions without leaving the conversation.

No account, API key, or local setup required — it's a hosted server you connect to in one step.

What you can do

• Hire a developer — submit a hiring request to Lemon.io and get hand-matched, vetted senior candidates (first CVs typically within 24 hours).

• Write a job description — generate a professional, role-specific JD from your requirements.

• Prepare interviews — get curated technical interview questions by stack and seniority.

Related MCP server: interview-mcp-server

Connect

The server URL is:

https://mcp.lemon.io/mcp

Claude Desktop / Claude.ai

1. Open Settings → Connectors.

2. Click Add custom connector.

3. Name it Lemon.io and paste the server URL above.

4. Click Connect.

That's it — Lemon.io tools are now available in your conversations.

Cline

1. In the Cline panel, click the MCP Servers icon.

2. Open the Remote Servers tab.

3. Set Server Name to lemon-io and Server URL to https://mcp.lemon.io/mcp.

4. Set Transport Type to Streamable HTTP.

5. Click Add Server.

Add it through this panel rather than by editing cline_mcp_settings.json directly — and do not locate that file by searching the filesystem for its name.

Cline creates two files with that name and reads only one of them. On VS Code the decoy sits in the extension's storage directory (.../User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/) and is never read; Cline 4.x reads its own data directory instead (~/.cline/data/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json on macOS). Writing to the decoy looks completely successful — valid JSON, no error, the endpoint probes fine — but the server never appears in the panel. The Remote Servers tab always writes to the file that install actually uses.

If you do configure it by hand, the entry is:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lemon-io": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.lemon.io/mcp",
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

"type": "streamableHttp" is required — omitting it makes Cline fall back to the legacy SSE transport, which this server does not serve.

Cursor

Install from the Cursor Directory listing, or add the same block to ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

Other MCP clients

Any client that speaks streamable HTTP can connect to https://mcp.lemon.io/mcp. No API key, token, or environment variable is required — the server is public and read-only apart from submit_form, which only sends a hiring request after you confirm it.

Example prompts

• "Help me hire a senior React developer for a fintech project."

• "Write a job description for a full-stack engineer with Node.js and AWS."

• "Give me 10 interview questions for a mid-level Python developer."

How it works

Claude uses the server's tools to guide you through each task. For hiring, it collects the required details, shows you a preview, and only submits after you explicitly confirm — nothing is sent to Lemon.io without your approval.

Privacy

• No sign-up or credentials needed to use the server.

• Only the hiring details you review and confirm are sent to Lemon.io so the team can reach out with matches.

About Lemon.io

Lemon.io matches startups and growing teams with pre-vetted senior developers