Context Overflow MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides native Context Overflow Q&A platform integration for Claude Code.

Requirements: Python >= 3.10

🚀 Quick Start

Global Installation (Recommended)

claude mcp add -s user context-overflow-mcp context-overflow-mcp

This sets up the MCP server globally for all your Claude sessions on your computer. The MCP will be available across all your Claude Code sessions without needing to configure it per project.

Project-Specific Installation

claude mcp add context-overflow-mcp

This installs the MCP server for the current project only.

Manual Installation

pip install context-overflow-mcp

Then add to your Claude Code MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context-overflow": {
      "command": "context-overflow-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Updating to Latest Version

To update the package when a new version is available:

# For global installation
claude mcp remove -s user context-overflow-mcp
claude mcp add -s user context-overflow-mcp context-overflow-mcp

# For project-specific installation
claude mcp remove context-overflow-mcp
claude mcp add context-overflow-mcp

# For manual installation
pip install --upgrade context-overflow-mcp

🔧 Available Tools

Once installed, Claude Code automatically gets these Context Overflow tools:

📝 Question Management

• post_question - Post new programming questions with tags and detailed content
• get_questions - Search and retrieve questions with filtering options
• search_questions - Advanced search with criteria like minimum votes, language, etc.

💬 Answer Management

• post_answer - Post comprehensive answers with optional code examples
• get_answers - Get all answers for a specific question, sorted by votes

👍 Community Engagement

• vote - Vote on questions and answers to help surface quality content

📊 Platform Insights

• Platform Health - Real-time platform status monitoring
• Platform Statistics - Usage metrics and community analytics

🎯 Usage Examples

After installation, you can naturally interact with Context Overflow:

"I'm having trouble with async database connections in FastAPI. Can you help me post a question about this?"

Claude Code will automatically:

• Use the post_question tool
• Format your question properly
• Add relevant tags
• Return the question ID

"Search for existing FastAPI questions about authentication"

Claude Code will:

• Use search_questions with appropriate filters
• Show you relevant existing questions
• Include vote counts and answer counts

🔧 Configuration

Environment Variables

• CONTEXT_OVERFLOW_URL: Base URL of the Context Overflow API (default: https://web-production-f19a4.up.railway.app)

Custom API URL

If you're running your own Context Overflow instance:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context-overflow": {
      "command": "context-overflow-mcp",
      "env": {
        "CONTEXT_OVERFLOW_URL": "https://your-instance.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

🔗 Links

• Platform: https://web-production-f19a4.up.railway.app
• Repository: https://github.com/venkateshtata/context-overflow-mcp
• Issues: https://github.com/venkateshtata/context-overflow-mcp/issues