Stackexchange MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. 697 installs a week from npm. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.
Search Stack Exchange questions, fetch Q&A threads as markdown, look up tag FAQs and user profiles.
Installs per day
peak 338 · avg 40 · +701% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history
91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
568 ms
Response time
average over 24h
697
Installs / week
npm and PyPI
What changed 28
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 23 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
28 Oct
4 tools changed the parameters they ask for
stackexchange_get_tag_faq, stackexchange_get_thread, stackexchange_get_user and 1 more
28 Oct
2 tool descriptions were rewritten
stackexchange_get_tag_faq, stackexchange_get_thread
28 Oct
a tool changed version
25 Oct
a tool changed version
9 Oct
a tool changed version
19 Sep
a tool changed version
10 Sep
3 tool descriptions were rewritten4 times that day
stackexchange_get_tag_faq, stackexchange_get_user, stackexchange_search_questions
10 Sep
4 tools changed the parameters they ask for
stackexchange_get_tag_faq, stackexchange_get_thread, stackexchange_get_user and 1 more
10 Sep
a tool changed version4 times that day
22 Aug
5 tools changed the parameters they ask for
stackexchange_get_tag_faq, stackexchange_get_thread, stackexchange_get_user and 2 more
and 5 more, back to 23 August 2026
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Stackexchange MCP Server 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.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add stackexchange-mcp-server --transport http https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.stackexchange-mcp-server]
url = "https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"stackexchange-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"stackexchange-mcp-server": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 5
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
stackexchange
stackexchange_get_tag_faq
Fetch the frequently asked questions for a tag on a Stack Exchange site — Stack Exchange's own "frequently asked" selection, returned in its order, not ranked by score; compare the scores yourself. Returns a question list without bodies; use stackexchange_get_thread to read the full body and answers for any result. Results past the pageSize cap are reachable with the `page` parameter. Use this tool to find the questions a community keeps coming back to on a topic (e.g. tag "javascript" on stackoverflow). Use stackexchange_search_questions for free-text search rather than tag-based browsing.
stackexchange_get_thread
Fetch a complete Q&A thread — question body and all answers, accepted answer first then sorted by score, rendered as clean markdown with fenced code blocks. Accepts a full Stack Exchange question URL, which is read from the site its host names (e.g. "https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/88490/how-do-i-use-a-heredoc"), or an integer question ID read from site (e.g. "11227809"). HTML is normalized to markdown automatically; attribution (author + link) included per CC BY-SA 4.0. Get question IDs from stackexchange_search_questions or stackexchange_get_tag_faq.
stackexchange_get_user
Fetch a Stack Exchange user profile by numeric user ID: reputation, badge counts, answer and question counts, account and last-access dates, and top tags by answer score. Useful for credibility context on an answer author — pass the authorUserId from any question or answer in stackexchange_get_thread output. Returns profile fields plus up to 10 top tags by answer score.
stackexchange_list_sites
Enumerate all sites in the Stack Exchange network — name, api_site_parameter, audience, and URL. The api_site_parameter value is what other tools accept as the `site` input (e.g. "stackoverflow", "superuser", "serverfault"). Results are fetched live and optionally filtered by name. Use this tool to discover valid site parameters before calling other stackexchange_* tools.
stackexchange_search_questions
Search questions across a Stack Exchange site. Returns ranked questions with title, score, answer count, accepted status, tags, ask and last-activity dates, and a short excerpt of the question body — not the full body. Results supply question_id values for stackexchange_get_thread, which fetches the full question body and all answers. Results past the pageSize cap are reachable with the `page` parameter. Use the `site` parameter to target a specific community (e.g. "stackoverflow", "superuser", "unix"); call stackexchange_list_sites to discover valid site values.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 537 ms | 1 min ago |
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Stackexchange MCP Server — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Stackexchange MCP Server do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: stackexchange_get_tag_faq, stackexchange_get_thread, stackexchange_get_user, stackexchange_list_sites, stackexchange_search_questions. 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 Stackexchange MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 568 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Stackexchange MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Stackexchange MCP Server need an API key?
No. Stackexchange MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Stackexchange MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 568 ms on average, which is faster than 20% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Stackexchange MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/stackexchange-mcp-server was installed 697 times in the last week. Week over week that is +701%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Stackexchange MCP Server open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 2 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at stackexchange.caseyjhand.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.