IndieStack
Performs health audits of GitHub repositories to provide maintenance grades, last commit dates, star counts, and identify alternative tools for stale projects based on repository activity and contribution metrics.
IndieStack
Your AI agent searches 6,500+ developer tools before writing code from scratch. 10,000+ installs.
Context-efficient AI coding: One
find_tools()call finds a 3-line install command instead of generating hundreds of lines of boilerplate. Less code generated = less context consumed.
claude mcp add indiestack -- uvx --from indiestack indiestack-mcpThen ask your agent:
"Find an auth solution for my Next.js app"
"What's the lightest open-source payments library?"
"Show me migration paths away from Webpack"
What it does
Before your AI writes auth, payments, or email boilerplate — IndieStack searches 6,500+ curated developer tools with real compatibility data from 4,500+ repos. You get install commands, health scores, and what tools actually work together in production.
"Indie" is the curation filter: independent developers and small teams. Focused, lean, maintained, honest pricing.
Install
Claude Code (zero install — runs via uvx):
claude mcp add indiestack -- uvx --from indiestack indiestack-mcpClaude Desktop — add to claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"indiestack": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--from", "indiestack", "indiestack-mcp"]
}
}
}Cursor / Windsurf — add to your MCP config:
{"command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "indiestack", "indiestack-mcp"]}Persistent install:
pipx install indiestack
claude mcp add indiestack -- indiestack-mcpCLI (terminal use):
pip install indiestack
indiestack search "analytics"
indiestack details simple-analytics
indiestack stack "auth, payments, email"Tools (23)
Tool | What it does |
| Search 6,500+ developer tools with 11 filters: price, health, stars, success rate, language, tags, compatibility |
| Find tools compatible with a given tool — grouped by category, with verified stacks and conflict warnings |
| Integration code, pricing, API specs, and compatibility data |
| Analyze a project description + tech stack, get a complete tool recommendation |
| Report that two tools work well together — builds the compatibility graph |
| Report success/failure with |
| GitHub health audit — maintenance grade, last commit, stars, alternatives for stale tools |
| Browse all 25 categories |
| Side-by-side comparison of any two tools |
| Turn a 50,000-token generation into a 2,000-token assembly |
| Submit a developer tool so other agents can recommend it |
| Recently added tools with pagination |
| All tags sorted by popularity |
| Top unmet needs — what developers search for but can't find |
| Curated stacks for common use cases |
| Scan package.json/requirements.txt for better alternatives |
| Financial breakdown: build from scratch vs use what exists |
| Personalized suggestions based on your search history |
Resources
Resource | What it provides |
| All 25 categories with slugs for filtering |
| Top 10 trending developer tools this week |
| Complete index for prompt caching — include once, reference forever |
Prompts
Prompt | When to use |
| Check IndieStack before building common functionality |
| Find indie alternatives to mainstream SaaS products |
| Audit your project for token-saving opportunities |
| Plan a feature using existing indie building blocks |
| Explore what indie developers have built |
What's new in v1.12
Market gaps —
get_market_gaps()exposes zero-result queries ranked by search volume. See what tools are missing from the ecosystem.Trust-weighted search — Tools with higher agent success rates rank higher. Real outcome data, not just star count.
Agent success badges — Search results show success rate badges when outcome data is available.
What's new in v1.11
Migration intelligence — Tool details include real migration data from 4,500+ GitHub repos. "jest → vitest: 27 repos", "webpack → vite: 13 repos".
Verified combos — 93,000+ verified package combinations from production repos.
Unlimited searches — All rate limits removed.
2,100+ install commands populated across the catalog.
Links
MIT License
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