StackSherpa

by astein91

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Intelligent API recommendation engine that silently picks the best APIs for your stack. Analyzes your project profile, compliance requirements, past decisions, and known issues to recommend the right provider for auth, payments, email, storage, and 25+ other categories.

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- CLI with commands for categories, providers, profiles, and decisions
- Claude Code skill for automatic API recommendations inside Claude
- Project profiles for personalized provider suggestions
- Live pricing and known issues scraped from provider websites and GitHub
- Local data storage; user data never leaves the machine

Setting up with Highlight

This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:

Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
Configure the plugin with the settings below

Plugin Name StackSherpa

Command (node, npx, python, etc.)

Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches

Setting up with Cursor

Open Cursor's settings
Navigate to the MCP section
Click "Add new Global MCP server"
Copy and paste the configuration below based on your operating system

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Claude Desktop

Open Claude Desktop's settings
Go to the Integrations tab
Click "Add MCP Server"
Use the configuration below based on your operating system

Note: Make sure Claude Desktop is running before attempting to connect.

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Windsurf

Open Windsurf's preferences
Go to the Integrations section
Click "Add MCP Integration"
Use the configuration below based on your operating system

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Cline

Open Cline's settings
Navigate to the Integrations section
Click "Add MCP Server"
Copy and paste the configuration below based on your operating system

Note: Make sure to restart Cline after adding the configuration.

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Goose

Open Goose's preferences
Go to the Integrations tab
Select "MCP Servers"
Click "Add New Server"
Use the configuration below based on your operating system

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

From the repository

npm install -g stacksherpa mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/api-selection curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astein91/stacksherpa/main/skills/api-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/api-selection/SKILL.md

bash
stacksherpa categories --pretty # List all 28 categories
stacksherpa providers email --pretty # All email providers + your profile
stacksherpa providers database --pretty # All database providers
stacksherpa provider stripe --pretty # Deep-dive on one provider

stacksherpa profile --pretty # View your project profile
stacksherpa profile --set '{"project.scale": "startup"}'
stacksherpa profile --set '{"constraints.compliance": ["SOC2"]}'

stacksherpa decide --api Resend --category email --outcome positive
stacksherpa report --id <decision-id> --success

stacksherpa projects list --pretty
``

All commands output JSON. Add --pretty for human-readable formatting.

| Variable | Required for | Purpose | |----------|-------------|---------| |TURSO_AUTH_TOKEN| All reads | Read-only Turso access | |TURSO_WRITE_TOKEN| Cron jobs | Write access for scrapers/agents | |ANTHROPIC_API_KEY| Agent refresh, bootstrap | Claude Haiku for agentic pipelines | |EXA_API_KEY| Bootstrap | Web search for provider discovery | |FIRECRAWL_API_KEY| Pricing, metadata | Website scraping | |GITHUB_TOKEN` | Issue scraping | Higher rate limits for GitHub API |

Claude Desktop / Cursor

Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "stacksherpa": {
            "stacksherpa": {
                "command": "npx",
                "args": [
                    "-y",
                    "stacksherpa"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

McpServers

{
    "stacksherpa": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": [
            "-y",
            "stacksherpa"
        ]
    }
}

Intelligent API recommendation engine. 450+ providers across 28 categories — with pricing, known issues, compliance data, and live GitHub issue tracking.

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