Add Vamo to Gemini CLI

Add Vamo to your Gemini CLI settings, sign in with your browser, and ask for engineers in plain English.

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Copy the setup prompt and paste it into Gemini CLI. It signs you up if you are new, connects Vamo with your sign-in and runs your first search.

Add it directly

In ~/.gemini/settings.json in your home directory, never inside a project. Then run /mcp auth vamo in Gemini CLI and approve in your browser.

~/.gemini/settings.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vamo": { "httpUrl": "https://mcp.vamotalent.ai/mcp/search" }
  }
}

Can’t sign in? Use a key

Create a key at Set up > API keys and send it in the Authorization header instead.

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_VAMO_API_KEY

A key is shown once. You pick its permissions when you create it.

Managed by your team

On a company workspace, ask your admin to let members add MCP servers and to allow mcp.vamotalent.ai. Rolling it out to a whole team? We set it up with you on a short call.

Try it

Ask for engineers in your own words, or start with one of these. A good answer names real developers, says what each has built, and says why they fit.

Searches to try in Gemini CLI
Find senior engineers who contribute to ghostty
Find tokio contributors in the New York metro, strongest first
Find Datadog engineers, past or present, in the New York metro
Find engineers who build distributed databases: storage engines, replication, consensus
Find Stanford grads since 2022 working on LLM inference
Find AI lab engineers who contribute to vLLM
Find engineers like our strongest backend hire, in the Bay Area

What you get back

Every engineer comes back with the repos they own, the projects they contribute to, a contribution garden and why they fit.

Engineers on Vamo Discover

  • David Mann
    @davidmann4
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    Vienna-based polyglot building image editors and Ruby chatbot frameworks

    Ships chatbot frameworks and image editing tooling across JavaScript, Ruby and Python, based in Vienna. Contributes to storytold/photocraft, a photo editor, and builds botstack, a chatbot development framework.

  • Max Schwenk
    @maschwenk
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    Staff engineer porting TypeScript's type checker to Rust

    Builds a faster TypeScript type checker in Rust and Go. Commits to oxc-project/tsrs, a library that checks TypeScript code for errors, and contributes to microsoft/typescript-go, a native port of TypeScript.

  • Andrew Gazelka
    @andrewgazelka
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    Rust engineer at xAI building bot infrastructure and developer tooling

    Builds Rust systems at xAI, after co-founding BountyBot. Contributes to SwarmBotMC/SwarmBot, a Minecraft bot launcher, and maintains cursor-sync, a plugin that synchronizes cursor positions between IDEs.

Questions

Do I need an API key?
No. Sign in with /mcp auth vamo. A key is the fallback if sign-in fails.
Can it call the Vamo API directly?
Yes, with a key in the Authorization header. Point it at the API reference.
What plan do I need?
Pro or Enterprise, and an owner, admin or user role. A read-only member cannot connect a tool.

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