Archestack MCP server

Archestack MCP server

Ask your assistant about open-source AI projects and get answers from the Archestack rankings: scores, GitHub facts, reviews and open-source picks for paid tools.

It covers two lists:

• Best of AI: self-hosted AI apps and infrastructure, like chat UIs, model servers, RAG, agents and vector databases.
• Best of Vibe Coding: starters, coding agents, MCP servers, skills and plugins for building with AI.

The server runs on your machine and reads the open data API. No key, no account.

Install

Needs Node.js 22 or newer. One click for Cursor or VS Code:

Claude Code

claude mcp add archestack -- npx -y @archestack/mcp

Claude Desktop: add this to claudedesktopconfig.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config), then restart the app.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archestack": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@archestack/mcp"] }
  }
}

Cursor: the same mcpServers block in ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or in .cursor/mcp.json for one project.

VS Code without the button:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"archestack","command":"npx","args":["-y","@archestack/mcp"]}'

From source

git clone https://github.com/archestack/mcp.git archestack-mcp
cd archestack-mcp
npm ci && npm run build

Then point your client at node /full/path/to/archestack-mcp/dist/index.js instead of npx -y @archestack/mcp.

Tools

All five are read-only. Things to ask:

• "Which vector database runs without a GPU?"
• "Open-source alternatives to Cursor"
• "Compare Open WebUI and LibreChat"
• "Top 5 coding agents with an arm64 build"

What comes back, shortened (searchprojects with "vector database" and nogpu, data of 2026-10-13):

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.