# `io.github.cyanheads/stackexchange-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/stackexchange-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/stackexchange-mcp-server
- Version: 0.1.16 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/stackexchange-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:53.733Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Search Stack Exchange questions, fetch Q&A threads as markdown, look up tag FAQs and user profiles.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:17:21.596Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 5 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 5 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (5)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `stackexchange_get_tag_faq`

- The name "stackexchange_get_tag_faq" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch the highest-voted answered questions for a tag on a Stack Exchange site — the canonical "best answers in X" list. 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 authoritative community resources 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`

- The name "stackexchange_get_thread" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 an integer question ID or a full Stack Exchange question URL (e.g. "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster" or "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`

- The name "stackexchange_get_user" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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`

- The name "stackexchange_list_sites" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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`

- The name "stackexchange_search_questions" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `stackexchange`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__stackexchange__stackexchange_list_sites",
      "mcp__stackexchange__stackexchange_search_questions",
      "mcp__stackexchange__stackexchange_get_tag_faq",
      "mcp__stackexchange__stackexchange_get_user",
      "mcp__stackexchange__stackexchange_get_thread"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```