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OJCP

an open protocol for agent-consumable job data

Details

External ID
49273922
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
OJCP
Website domain
ojcp.dev
Launched
Aug. 12, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
39
Upvotes percentile
0.8373655913978495
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Description

Author here!Agents are applying to jobs for people right now, with progressively more volume, and there's nothing built for it. So they scrape career pages and fight ATS forms with Playwright/Browser Use, which breaks constantly (or they get bot blocked). Employers get buried in applications that don't fit, candidates hear nothing back, and the resume is now an AI-written thing that another AI scores (which breaks the existing model entirely, btw).OJCP is MCP tools for search and apply, a manifest at /.well-known/ojcp.json so agents can find providers, and schemas that extend schema.org instead of replacing it. The playground on the site is a live MCP endpoint, so you can throw calls at it right now.Why a spec at all when models keep getting better at figuring things out? Inference can't produce authorization. An agent can work out what a form wants. It can't establish that someone consented to this specific submission, and then employer has no way to verify who's calling. So TL;DR a more capable agent is also a more capable impersonator.In this model, trust runs both direction. Agents sign requests using the same method that CloudFlare and OpenAI are already using, providers sign their manifests, agents can check against a JWKS, and trust tiers cap how much candidate PII can go to a given provider. Validation happens at consent, so browsing costs nothing and you only pay the verify when the interaction occurs.I'm the CTO of Recruitics (job advertising) and spent time at LinkedIn before that, so I've been at the intersection of hiring and job search for a while and have felt the pain of both sides.Happy to answer any questions!

Enrichment

Theme
Vertical
HR & recruiting
Function
Data infrastructure
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
open protocol for job data
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes OJCP is an open schema and API protocol specification for publishing structured job data to automated agents, which is fundamentally JSON-LD/schema design and static documentation.

Discussion

10 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Job-Ops, Claude/Claw for job applications, ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems)

Concerns raised: Protocol keyword being diluted by different motivated use cases, Lack of transparency on all companies involved in governance, Company ghosting/rejection practices not being tracked or held accountable, Early stage solution being called a 'protocol' prematurely, Only Recruitics listed as committee member, missing diverse party representation

Feature requests: Track which companies reject/ghost applicants most to help job seekers blacklist them, Enable job seekers to poll application status in a native way, Public listing of all involved companies and their feedback

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #23 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a data infrastructure tool for Media & entertainment yet.