Stack Exchange MCP server

Connect Stack Exchange to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Stack Exchange MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the get answers tool in Stack Exchange
  • Use the list sites tool in Stack Exchange
  • Use the manage comment tool in Stack Exchange
  • Use the search questions tool in Stack Exchange
  • Use the get question tool in Stack Exchange
  • Use the get post revisions tool in Stack Exchange

Supported Tools

get_answers

Get Answers

Retrieve answers for a specific question or by answer IDs. Returns answer body, score, acceptance status, and author details.

list_sites

List Sites

List all sites in the Stack Exchange network. Returns site identifiers, names, URLs, and audience descriptions. Use the "apiSiteParameter" value from results as the site config parameter.

manage_comment

Manage Comment

Add, edit, or delete a comment on a question or answer. Adding a comment requires the post ID; editing or deleting requires the comment ID. Requires OAuth with **write_access** scope.

search_questions

Search Questions

Search for questions across a Stack Exchange site using keywords, tags, and advanced filters. Supports both basic title-based search and advanced full-text search with criteria like accepted answer status, minimum answers/views, and date ranges.

get_question

Get Question

Retrieve a question by its ID along with its answers and comments. Returns the full question details including body, score, tags, with paginated answers and comments.

get_post_revisions

Get Post Revisions

View the revision history of a question or answer, showing how the post has changed over time. Each revision includes the edit summary, content changes, and editor details.

get_user

Get User Profile

Retrieve a user's profile including reputation, badge counts, and top tags. Use "me" as the userId to get the authenticated user's profile. Can also search for users by display name.

get_inbox

Get Inbox

Retrieve the authenticated user's global inbox or unread inbox items. Requires OAuth with **read_inbox** scope. Shows notifications about new answers, comments, and other activity across the Stack Exchange network.

browse_tags

Browse Tags

Browse and search tags on a Stack Exchange site. Look up tag metadata, find related tags, view synonyms, and discover frequently asked questions for specific tags.

get_user_activity

Get User Activity

Retrieve a user's recent questions, answers, or reputation changes. Useful for reviewing a user's contributions and activity history on a Stack Exchange site.

post_answer

Post Answer

Post an answer to a question on a Stack Exchange site. Requires OAuth with **write_access** scope.

post_question

Post Question

Create a new question on a Stack Exchange site. Requires OAuth with **write_access** scope. The question must have a title, body, and at least one tag.

get_notifications

Get Notifications

Read your Stack Exchange notifications, optionally restricted to unread notifications. Requires OAuth with read_inbox.

accept_answer

Accept Answer

Accept an answer to your question, or undo acceptance. Requires OAuth with write_access. Undo an existing accepted answer before accepting another.

edit_answer

Edit Answer

Edit the body of an answer. Requires OAuth with write_access and permission to edit the answer.

edit_question

Edit Question

Edit a question title, body, and tags. Requires OAuth with write_access and permission to edit the question.

Connect Stack Exchange to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Stack Exchange in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Stack Exchange MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Stack Exchange tools.

Run Stack Exchange through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Stack Exchange and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Stack Exchange tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Stack Exchange

Slack

Slack: connect with bot OAuth or user OAuth to work with messages, conversations, search, files, Canvases, Lists, profiles, reactions, reminders, and workspace productivity settings.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook

Send, read, reply to, forward, and manage email messages in user mailboxes. Organize messages into folders, apply categories, flags, and importance levels. Manage file and item attachments. Create, update, delete, and respond to calendar events and meetings. Find available meeting times, manage attendees, handle recurrence, and work with shared or delegated calendars. Create, read, update, and delete contacts, organize them into contact folders, and manage contact photos. Manage tasks and task lists via Microsoft To Do, including due dates, reminders, recurrence, and checklist items. Subscribe to webhook notifications for changes to messages, calendar events, and contacts. Support for Focused Inbox, @-mentions, mail tips, send-on-behalf, and send-as capabilities.

Confluence

Create, read, update, and delete pages, blog posts, comments, and attachments in Confluence spaces. Manage spaces, permissions, labels, and content restrictions. Search content using Confluence Query Language (CQL). Upload and download file attachments with versioning. Manage users, groups, and group memberships. Create and manage whiteboards, databases, folders, and templates. View and update inline tasks. Access audit logs.

Discord

Send, edit, and delete messages in channels. Manage servers (guilds), channels, roles, members, invites, webhooks, threads, scheduled events, auto moderation rules, audit logs, application commands, and custom guild emojis.

Asana

Create, read, update, and delete tasks, projects, portfolios, and goals in Asana workspaces. Manage task assignments, due dates, subtasks, dependencies, tags, custom fields, attachments, and comments. Organize work with sections, project templates, and portfolios. Search tasks across workspaces, track time entries, and manage team memberships.

Technical notes for Stack Exchange

Search and read Stack Exchange questions, answers, tags, user profiles, reputation changes, and post revisions. Create and edit questions and answers, accept answers, manage comments, and access your inbox and notifications with OAuth. Discover community sites and configure the site to query.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Stack Exchange to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Stack Exchange MCP server have?
    The Stack Exchange MCP server exposes 16 tools, including Get Answers, List Sites, Manage Comment. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Stack Exchange exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Stack Exchange MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Stack Exchange and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Stack Exchange MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

Connect Stack Exchange to production AI agents

See how Metorial gives your team governed access to Stack Exchange, with tracing and security controls built in.