Discourse MCP is here!

As soon as Anthropic open sourced their Model Context Protocol (MCP) proposal for interfacing with AI agents almost a year ago, we started getting excited about how good of a match it was for Discourse. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/discourse-mcp-is-here
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Here is a good example of workflows that are possible with Discourse MCP, Discourse → Jira integration

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Impressive, although I’m surprised you’re using Jira and not Discourse :wink:

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I know you are joking, but was going for an good illustrative example for large companies with many channels for customer support who centralize things on Jira for historical reasons :wink:

Does anyone have more ideas for integrations like that? I could do a couple more screencasts.

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This is how I feel about this :smiley:

But in all seriousness, fantastic addition.

Where can we find the final documentation about possible arg values and all available commands/tools?

For example, I would like to add the MCP to my IDE but limit it to specific categories such as Dev and Documentation > Developer Guides

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Documentation is maintained at GitHub - discourse/discourse-mcp: MCP client for Discourse sites

This also shows in the UI of your MCP client, for example Claude Code shows

Currently you can prompt your way there with something along the lines of:

When searching or filtering, via discourse_filter_topics or discourse_search, append category:dev,documentation to the query so you only search relevant information.

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Question for using Discourse MCP. If a user uses MCP, does that count towards their login date? so they can get Devotee badge easily?

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The Meta TOS forbids to use this anyway :thinking:

You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.

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