Career Compass MCP
Career Compass runs entirely on your own computer. It has no server, no account, and no network calls of its own. Your career history and job pipeline are plain YAML files in a directory you choose. Nothing is uploaded, and there is nothing for us to collect, store, sell, or hand over — because your data never reaches us in the first place.
Career Compass reads and writes the career information you give it:
In a single directory on your machine, set by the CAREER_DATA_PATH
environment variable. The default is ~/.career-compass/. Files are ordinary
YAML you can open, edit, back up, or delete with any text editor. Each write also leaves a
timestamped .bak copy of the previous version in the same directory.
We never receive this data. There is no Career Compass account, no cloud sync, no backup service, and no telemetry or analytics of any kind. The software makes no outbound network requests.
Career Compass is an MCP server, so it answers a client you connect it to — normally Claude Desktop or Claude Code. When you ask Claude to tailor a resume or prep an interview, the relevant parts of your career data are passed to that client, and from there to the model provider under their privacy policy, not this one:
That is the only path by which your data leaves your machine, it happens because you asked for it, and it is governed by the terms of whichever client and model provider you chose. Career Compass itself sends nothing anywhere.
The bundled local dashboard serves pages from 127.0.0.1 on your own machine,
renders them with no external assets, and makes no network calls.
Job postings, emails, and documents you paste in are third-party content. Career Compass wraps them in a clearly-marked, nonce-delimited block before they reach the model, so text inside them is presented as quoted evidence rather than as instructions. This reduces the risk that a malicious posting can direct the model to act against you, but no such measure is absolute. Treat pasted content from unknown sources with the same care you would apply anywhere else.
Your files stay on your disk until you delete them. There is no retention period on our
side because we hold nothing. To remove everything, delete your
CAREER_DATA_PATH directory (including the .bak files) and
uninstall the package.
None. We do not share, sell, rent, or disclose your data, because we never receive it. There are no advertisers, analytics providers, data brokers, or subprocessors involved.
Career Compass is a job-search tool intended for adults in the workforce and is not directed at children under 13.
Changes are published in the public repository with the date above updated. The full version history is visible in git.