Dependency guardrail for AI coding agents. Validates packages before installation, catches hallucinations and typosquats, and provides compatibility
Indiestack MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Dependency guardrail for AI coding agents. Validates packages before installation, catches hallucinations and typosquats, and provides compatibility intelligence across 6,500+ developer tools.
Once Indiestack is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
find_tools — Search 6,500+ developer tools with 11 filters: price, health, stars, success rate, language, tags, compatibilityfind_compatible — Find tools compatible with a given tool — grouped by category, with verified stacks and conflict warningsget_tool_details — Integration code, pricing, API specs, and compatibility datascan_project — Analyze a project description + tech stack, get a complete tool recommendationreport_compatibility — Report that two tools work well together — builds the compatibility graphreport_outcome — Report success/failure with used_with and incompatible_with — feeds the compatibility graphcheck_health — GitHub health audit — maintenance grade, last commit, stars, alternatives for stale toolslist_categories — Browse all 25 categoriescompare_tools — Side-by-side comparison of any two toolsbuild_stack — Turn a 50,000-token generation into a 2,000-token assemblypublish_tool — Submit a developer tool so other agents can recommend itbrowse_new_tools — Recently added tools with paginationindiestack on PyPI is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Indiestack's toolset — find_tools, find_compatible, get_tool_details and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by pattyboi101; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| find_tools | Search 6,500+ developer tools with 11 filters: price, health, stars, success rate, language, tags, compatibility |
| find_compatible | Find tools compatible with a given tool — grouped by category, with verified stacks and conflict warnings |
| get_tool_details | Integration code, pricing, API specs, and compatibility data |
| scan_project | Analyze a project description + tech stack, get a complete tool recommendation |
| report_compatibility | Report that two tools work well together — builds the compatibility graph |
| report_outcome | Report success/failure with used_with and incompatible_with — feeds the compatibility graph |
| check_health | GitHub health audit — maintenance grade, last commit, stars, alternatives for stale tools |
| list_categories | Browse all 25 categories |
| compare_tools | Side-by-side comparison of any two tools |
| build_stack | Turn a 50,000-token generation into a 2,000-token assembly |
| publish_tool | Submit a developer tool so other agents can recommend it |
| browse_new_tools | Recently added tools with pagination |
| list_tags | All tags sorted by popularity |
| get_market_gaps | Top unmet needs — what developers search for but can't find |
{
"mcpServers": {
"indiestack": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["indiestack"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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