discourse/discourse-mcp

Overview

Official Discourse MCP server for forum integration, enabling topic search, post reading, category/tag management, user discovery, and community interaction.

Capabilities

• • stdio transport support
• • network transport options
• • resource handlers
• • authentication support
• • mcp client integration

Best For

Discourse MCP server: Integrate forums with topic search, post management, and community interaction features.

Decision Snapshot

• • GitHub stars: 52
• • Forks: 29
• • Source provenance count: 1
• • Active signal: Updated this week from lifecycle signals.
• • Last seen: 4/14/2026
• • Published: 3/17/2026

Installation / Setup

npx -y @discourse/mcp@latest

This is an MCP Find-authored example config generated from strong evidence.

Final parameters should follow the tool's official setup documentation.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discourse-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@discourse/mcp@latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Usage

npx -y @discourse/mcp@latest

Features

• • **Admin API Keys** (api_key + api_username)
• • Require admin/moderator permissions to generate
• • Created via Admin Panel → API → New API Key
• • Can perform all operations including user/category creation
• • Use headers: Api-Key and Api-Username
• • **User API Keys** (user_api_key + optional user_api_client_id)
• • Can be generated by any user (no admin required)
• • User-specific permissions and rate limits

Use Cases

• • Supports capabilities such as: stdio transport support; network transport options; resource handlers.
• • Common usage themes: mcp, curated, markdown-list, awesome-mcp-servers-punkpeye.

Supported Clients / Integrations

• • stdio transport support
• • network transport options
• • resource handlers
• • authentication support
• • mcp client integration

Prompt Examples

Notes / Requirements

• • Primary language: TypeScript
• • License: MIT
• • Parser coverage score: 1.00
• • Source feeds: Awesome MCP Servers (punkpeye)
• • Topic cluster: research

Official Links

• Website
• Repository

Source Information

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