Ashlr Stack MCP Server

Ashlr Stack — the control plane for your entire dev stack. Provisions, wires, and operates every service in your project with one command.

Local serverstdio

What is the Ashlr Stack MCP server?

Ashlr Stack MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Ashlr Stack directly instead of describing what you should do. Ashlr Stack — the control plane for your entire dev stack. Provisions, wires, and operates every service in your project with one command.

What you get

In a Claude‑Code‑native world, the friction in starting a project isn't writing code — it's tab‑hopping to create and wire ten services. Every npx create-next-app is followed by an hour of:

What the assistant can call

Once Ashlr Stack is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

  • Publishing — Three packages ship to npm: @ashlr/stack-core, ashlr-stack-mcp, @ashlr/stack. For monorepo dev, @ashlr/stack depends on @ashlr/stack-core via

Setting it up

The server ships on npm as create-next-app, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.

Choosing this one

This sits in the payments and commerce group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Ashlr Stack's toolset — Publishing — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by ashlrai; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Ashlr Stack's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the ashlr stack mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
PublishingThree packages ship to npm: @ashlr/stack-core, ashlr-stack-mcp, @ashlr/stack. For monorepo dev, @ashlr/stack depends on @ashlr/stack-core via workspace:* — that's what lets bun install link the local checkout. A plain np

How to install the Ashlr Stack MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ashlr-stack": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "create-next-app"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Ashlr Stack to Publishing.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Ashlr Stack to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Publishing) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Ashlr Stack directly.