Wellfound · OAuth Scopes

Wellfound OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 probed

Wellfound uses OAuth 2.0 but publishes no discrete scopes — access is governed by the grant itself (e.g. client-credentials or role-based authorization) rather than per-scope consent.

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RecruitingHiringTalentHuman ResourcesApplicant TrackingJob BoardStartupsMCPagent-nativeOAuthAI Sourcing

Scopes: 0 Flows: Method: probed

Scopes (0)

Wellfound implements OAuth 2.0 but publishes no discrete scopes — access is governed by the grant itself (client-credentials or role-based authorization) rather than per-scope consent.

📄 Provider scope reference:

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-09-04'
method: probed
source: >-
  https://wellfound.com/.well-known/openid-configuration (200),
  https://wellfound.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (200),
  https://reach.wellfound.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (200),
  https://reach.wellfound.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (200)
docs: null
docs_note: >-
  No scopes / permissions reference page exists on any Wellfound property. The scope
  vocabulary below was read verbatim out of the scopes_supported arrays of the four
  discovery documents; the descriptions are our plain reading of each scope name and are
  marked as such. Wellfound publishes no prose definition of any of these scopes.

authorization_servers:
- issuer: https://wellfound.com
  scope_count: 9
  protects: https://wellfound.com/api/mcp
  scopes:
  - name: message
    description: legacy AngelList-era scope - no published definition
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: false
  - name: dealflow
    description: legacy AngelList-era scope - no published definition
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: false
  - name: comment
    description: legacy AngelList-era scope - no published definition
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: false
  - name: email
    description: read the authenticated member's email address (our reading of the name)
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: false
  - name: invest
    description: legacy AngelList-era scope - no published definition
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: false
  - name: accreditation
    description: legacy AngelList-era scope - no published definition
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: false
  - name: applications:read
    description: read a recruiter's inbound job applications (our reading of the name)
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: true
  - name: applications:accept
    description: accept an inbound application - a WRITE scope with an irreversible-looking
      effect on a candidate
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: true
  - name: applications:reject
    description: reject an inbound application - a WRITE scope with an irreversible-looking
      effect on a candidate
    described_by_provider: false
    used_by_live_resource: true
- issuer: https://reach.wellfound.com
  scope_count: 7
  protects: https://reach.wellfound.com/mcp
  scopes:
  - name: projects:read
    description: read sourcing projects
    described_by_provider: false
    write: false
  - name: agents:read
    description: read the AI sourcing agents configured on the account
    described_by_provider: false
    write: false
  - name: agents:write
    description: create or modify AI sourcing agents
    described_by_provider: false
    write: true
  - name: candidates:read
    description: read candidates
    described_by_provider: false
    write: false
  - name: candidates:write
    description: create or modify candidates
    described_by_provider: false
    write: true
  - name: company_lists:read
    description: read company lists
    described_by_provider: false
    write: false
  - name: company_lists:write
    description: create or modify company lists
    described_by_provider: false
    write: true

analysis:
  total_scopes: 16
  granularity: >-
    The Reach server is cleanly resource:action scoped (7 scopes over 4 resources, read and
    write split on each). The wellfound.com server is not: six of its nine scopes are bare
    verbs or nouns inherited from the AngelList era with no separator and no published
    definition, and only the three colon-scoped applications:* entries belong to the live MCP
    resource. An agent asking for consent on this server cannot tell a user what "dealflow"
    or "invest" would let it do.
  least_privilege_possible: true
  least_privilege_note: >-
    Both servers do split read from write, so a read-only agent can be granted read-only
    access. On the applications server the split is finer than usual - accept and reject are
    separate scopes, so an agent can be permitted to accept but not reject, or the reverse.

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