Discourse MCP

Enables AI agents to interact with Discourse forums through search, reading topics/posts, managing categories and tags, chat channels, and optionally creating content with safeguarded write operations.

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// key findings

⚠️

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 2 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

✅

21 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

15 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

🔐

You'll be asked for 3 credentials: CHROMA_PROXY_API_KEY, DISCOURSE_API_KEY, DISCOURSE_USER_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretCHROMA_PROXY_API_KEY

configCHROMA_PROXY_URL

configDISCOURSE_ALLOW_WRITES

🔐 secretDISCOURSE_API_KEY— npx -y @discourse/mcp@latest --allow_writes --read_only=false --auth_pairs '[{"site":"https://try.discourse.org","api_key":"'$'","api_username":"system"}]'

configDISCOURSE_API_USERNAME

configDISCOURSE_DEFAULT_SEARCH

configDISCOURSE_LOG_LEVEL

configDISCOURSE_MAX_READ_LENGTH

configDISCOURSE_READ_ONLY

configDISCOURSE_SITE

configDISCOURSE_TOOLS_MODE

configDISCOURSE_USER_API_CLIENT_ID

🔐 secretDISCOURSE_USER_API_KEY— npx -y @discourse/mcp@latest --allow_writes --read_only=false --auth_pairs '[{"site":"https://try.discourse.org","user_api_key":"'$'"}]'

configPORT

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 475d774744b1aae293c9c3ee20fa8c83e133ecf0

code hash: c8f77b92a4bba41dcc5c7bfec515f12ad9e670409c686cc2c23d77bb59626bdb

verified: 4/18/2026, 6:53:06 PM

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