Connect the server

Pick your client

Six clients FastCV has been set up against, and the discovery contract for everything else. Choose the one you use — the rest of this page is the same whichever you pick.

claude mcp add --transport http fastcv https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp

codex mcp add fastcv --url https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp
codex mcp login fastcv

[mcp_servers.fastcv]
url = "https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp"

[mcp_servers.fastcv]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fastcv": {
      "url": "https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "fastcv": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What you're approving

Signing in issues your client an access token for FastCV alone. It is bound to this server, it never appears in a URL or in anything the assistant says, and it is not your FastCV password. The consent screen lists exactly this, in these words.

To end it, open Connections in your FastCV dashboard and disconnect the client. It loses access at once — the access token it is holding is destroyed with the connection, not left to expire. Removing the connector in the client works too, and is worth doing either way so it stops trying.

Check it worked

Ask for something only your account can answer. If the connection is live you get your own resume names back.

A brand-new account answers that it has none yet and offers to build one — which is the next section.

If FastCV is empty

You do not need to have used FastCV before. Give the assistant your material in whatever shape it is in.

1. Paste an existing resume, or attach a file your client can read.

   Answering questions works too — say you’d rather be interviewed and it will ask.

2. It saves what you gave it, gaps and all.

   Missing end dates and one-line entries are accepted rather than rejected, and it tells you which sections came through empty so you know what needs a second pass in the editor.

3. Open the editor link it returns, or keep going in the chat.

Tailoring for a job

This is what the server is for. Give it the company, the role, and the posting if you have it.

1. It reads the resume you name — or the only one you have.

   With one resume in the account it just uses it, rather than asking a question with one answer.

2. It writes a new tailored resume. Yours is not touched.

   The resume you own is the record of what you have actually done, and nothing in a conversation can rewrite it. Only the tailored copy can be revised afterwards, and only against the version it last read — so it cannot overwrite an edit you made in the browser a moment earlier.

3. It drafts the cover letter from that resume.

   Your name, email, phone and location come off the resume rather than being invented. The letter is plain paragraphs; FastCV supplies the typography.

4. It flags anything it added that your resume doesn't contain.

   An employer, job title, date, degree or figure that is not in the source comes back flagged, and the assistant is told to ask you to confirm it rather than present it as fact. The check compares words rather than meaning, so read what comes back before you send it anywhere.

5. It files both under the company and role.

   One folder per job, holding references rather than copies, and starting at Saved. Whether you actually applied is yours to mark, in FastCV — the assistant cannot set it.

6. Ask for the PDF and you get a download link.

   Time-limited, tied to that one document, and it works whether or not you have opened the editor. The editor link comes back with it, in case you would rather change the design first.

Use an API key instead

Scripts, self-hosted clients and anything running without a browser can authenticate with a FastCV API key instead of the OAuth flow. Create one under Connections in your dashboard, up to five at a time, and revoke any of them from the same page.

https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp
Authorization: Bearer fk_your_key

Clients that accept custom headers take the same key:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fastcv": {
      "url": "https://www.fastcv.co/v1/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer fk_your_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

When it doesn't take