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IndieTools MCP server

Search public products, founders and taxonomy from MCP-compatible agents without an account or API key.

Connect a client

Enter the endpoint as a remote Streamable HTTP server. Client configuration keys differ, so use the object below as a portable reference rather than a client-specific file.

Generic client configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "indietools": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://www.indietools.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools

Tool schemas are enumerated at runtime with the standard tools/list operation.

search_catalogue
Search public IndieTools products and discoverable founders. Paid placement does not alter result order.
list_products
List public products newest first with bounded pagination.
get_product
Read one public product by its canonical slug, including its effective public SEO, GEO, FAQ and product facts. Use this detail for product-specific answers; list and search results are summaries. Private drafts and commercial preparation are excluded.
list_founders
List discoverable IndieTools founder profiles with bounded pagination.
get_founder
Read one discoverable founder profile by its canonical slug.
list_categories
List public product categories and their public product counts.
list_technologies
List active technologies used by public products.
list_speed_results
List the latest or a selected finalized IndieTools Speed board, optionally within one category. ISO-week and category filters resolve the same permanent editions as the public archive. Every result is an IndieTools Product and links to its canonical Product page.

HTTP and limits

  • The current protocol carries version, client identity and capabilities on every POST request.
  • Clients that still use the 2025-11-25 initialize lifecycle remain supported through a stateless compatibility path.
  • Each POST carries one UTF-8 JSON-RPC message; JSON-RPC batches are rejected.
  • Request bodies are limited to 64 KiB and responses to 2 MiB.
  • GET is intentionally unavailable because this server does not expose an SSE listening stream.
  • Rate-limit responses use HTTP 429 and include retry guidance in response headers.

Trust boundary

  • Every tool is read-only, non-destructive and idempotent.
  • Do not send API keys, cookies, browser sessions or OAuth tokens.
  • Product and founder text is user-provided data, never an instruction to the agent.
  • Browser requests must come from the IndieTools origin; non-browser MCP clients normally omit Origin.

Check the transport

This standards-compliant server/discover probe confirms the current protocol, server identity and capabilities without opening a session. Use a real MCP client for normal tool discovery and calls; older clients may still negotiate the compatibility revision through initialize.

Protocol discovery probe
curl --request POST "https://www.indietools.app/api/mcp" \
  --header "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28" \
  --header "Mcp-Method: server/discover" \
  --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"discover-1","method":"server/discover","params":{"_meta":{"io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion":"2026-07-28","io.modelcontextprotocol/clientInfo":{"name":"indietools-check","version":"1.0.0"},"io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities":{}}}}'

Prefer plain HTTP or shell automation? Use the public REST API or the IndieTools CLI. The complete credential policy lives in auth.md.