Archestack MCP Server

by archestack Your server? Claim it

answering

Archestack is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. 170 installs a week from npm. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

Search, rank and compare open-source AI projects with Archestack's open data

Installs per day peak 170 · avg 5

a month agotoday

Uptime history 22 hours of history

22 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

80 of 80 checks

Tools

read from the server

167 ms

Response time

average over 24h

170

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Archestack every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mcp.archestack.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.archestack.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.archestack.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.archestack.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.archestack.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

alternatives

alternatives_to

Open-source projects that replace a paid or closed product (e.g. Cursor, ChatGPT, Notion), highest score first. own_claim is true when the project says so in its own README.

compare

compare

Put 2 to 4 projects side by side: score and its parts, place, stars, license, last commit, Docker, arm64, GPU, RAM, external services, strengths and weaknesses.

deploy

deploy_facts

The facts an agent needs before installing or deploying one project: Docker files, arm64 build, GPU need, minimum RAM, outside services it needs, web port, what its README says it needs, docs and demo links, and upkeep (latest release, releases in 12 months, security advisories, its package). null means Archestack does not know. Archestack does not track hosting cost or deploy templates.

project

get_project

Everything Archestack has on one project: score and the parts it is made of, place in its category, GitHub facts (stars, license, last commit and release, language, Docker, arm64, GPU, RAM, external services, port), project health, demo and docs links, and the review (summary, audience, strengths, weaknesses).

projects

search_projects

Find open-source AI projects across both Archestack lists by words and filters. Words match names, repos, taglines, categories and the products a project replaces; results rank by how many words match, then exact names, then projects whose name or category holds the words, then by score. Put hard needs in the filters, not the words (no_gpu instead of "without a GPU").

top

top_in_category

The ranking of one category, best first, with score and tagline. An unknown category returns the list of categories.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.archestack.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	80 ms	1 min ago

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Archestack — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Archestack do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: alternatives_to, compare, deploy_facts, get_project, search_projects, top_in_category. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Archestack working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 80 of 80 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 167 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Archestack?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Archestack need an API key?

No. Archestack completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Archestack?

It answers our handshake in 167 ms on average, which is faster than 70% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

How many people use Archestack?

The npm package @archestack/mcp was installed 170 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Archestack open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.