Connect Stack Exchange to AI agents

Connect Stack Exchange to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or other AI agents for your entire team. Metorial security, governance, observability, and gives your team a unified Magic MCP url to connect.

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, and optionally linked/related questions.

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.

More integrations teams use with Stack Exchange

Slack

Slack: connect with bot OAuth or user OAuth. Send, update, delete, and schedule messages; list and cancel scheduled messages; open DMs and group DMs; manage conversations, members, files, reactions, pins, bookmarks, reminders, user groups, and user status; search messages and files with user scopes; and retrieve user, conversation, and workspace info.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. 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. Subscribe to webhooks for list and library change notifications. 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.

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. Add or remove users, assign roles, kick or ban members, and receive supported message, guild, channel, member, and inbound webhook triggers.

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. Listen for webhooks on page, blog, comment, attachment, space, label, and user events.

Gmail

Send, read, and search email messages with support for recipients, attachments, and HTML content. Create, update, and send drafts. Manage conversation threads and organize messages with labels. Search mailboxes using Gmail query syntax (from, to, subject, date, attachment filters). Configure mail settings including forwarding rules, filters, vacation responders, signatures, aliases, and delegates. Import and insert messages for migration. Sync mailbox changes incrementally via history API. Subscribe to mailbox change notifications via push notifications.

Technical notes for Stack Exchange

Access Stack Overflow and 170+ Stack Exchange Q&A sites programmatically. Search and retrieve questions, answers, and comments across any site. Post, edit, and delete questions, answers, and comments. Browse user profiles, reputation history, badges, and activity timelines. Search questions by keywords, tags, and advanced filters. Access a user's global inbox and notifications. Retrieve tag metadata, synonyms, top answerers, and related tags. View suggested edits and post revision history. Query network-wide site metadata and user associations across the Stack Exchange network.

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Frequently asked questions

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

  1. Can Metorial connect Stack Exchange to AI agents?
    Yes. Metorial connects AI agents to Stack Exchange through a governed integration layer, so teams can use the provider while keeping access controlled and observable.
  2. Metorial is MCP compatible and lets teams expose approved provider tools to MCP-capable agents and clients through a controlled access layer.
  3. Metorial applies policies across users, groups, providers, agents, and individual tools, then records the context around every agent interaction.
  4. Yes. Metorial records provider activity so teams can inspect tool calls, troubleshoot integrations, and give security teams the visibility they need.