Is there an official Discourse Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Feature
10

My current thinking roadmap wise is is along this… still needs lots of refinement but it helps paint a picture of how I think about this.

V0 - MCP server

  • Allow admin to select a collection of tools (either custom or built-in) and publish to a particular endpoint. /discourse-ai/mcp/NAME

  • Use Bearer for authentication - in particular a user API key

  • Key can be scoped to a particular MCP service

Milestone

  • Discourse tools (eg: search instance, read topics etc…) can be consumed by Cursor and Claude desktop

V1 - MCP client

  • Allow admin to consume an MCP service, which adds a list of tools to the available tool list that can then be consumed by personas.

  • Use Bearer for authentication

Milestone

  • Services in in https://mcp.so can be consumed by a discourse instance

V2 - MCP client per user

  • When discussing with bot, privileged users can click “add MCP” and add MCP to an ongoing conversation
  • Use Bearer for auth

Milestone

  • End users can choose to add context for an MCP of choice to an ongoing AI conversation

V3 - Implement OAuth 2 for auth

This is a more complex auth mechanism especially registration

Milestone

  • Broader support

V4 - Implement a “bridge” mechanism for local resource access

  • Implement a gem or desktop app that allows access to local resources via MCP to discourse, utilizing stdio transport

milestone

  • You can converse with a Discourse Bot PM and access local files for extra context
7 Likes