dev-portal

The Chainstack Developer Portal MCP server is a streamable HTTP service that exposes Chainstack documentation content through the Model Context Protocol. It is designed to let AI agents browse, search, and navigate the docs as if they were interacting with a structured model context. The server is hosted at https://docs.chainstack.com/mcp and can be connected to via tools that support MCP servers (for example Claude, Cursor, VS Code integrations, or Windsurf). In practice, you can configure your agent tooling to point at this server URL so that the agent can query the docs catalog, follow links, and fetch sections of the documentation to answer questions or perform tasks related to Chainstack developer documentation. The server’s capabilities align with providing access to the Mintlify-based docs, including interactive references and the ability to treat each page as a navigable context.

Prerequisites:

• Access to the internet to reach the hosted MCP server at https://docs.chainstack.com/mcp

If you are configuring a local test environment that references this remote MCP server, you typically do not need to install anything specific besides your MCP client tooling. To use the hosted MCP server from an agent:

1. Ensure your agent/tool supports MCP and can target a remote server URL.
2. Add the MCP server URL to your tool’s configuration (for example, in your agent’s mcp servers list) as https://docs.chainstack.com/mcp.
3. If your tooling requires authentication or headers, provide them according to the tool’s documentation (this hosted portal is public for access to documentation).

If you want to run a local Mintlify-based docs portal in parallel (not required for MCP access):

• Prerequisites: Node.js and npm
• Install Mintlify CLI globally npm i -g mintlify
• In the repository root (with docs.json present), run: mintlify dev
• Visit http://localhost:8000 (or the port Mintlify CLI indicates) to preview the docs locally.

Note: The MCP server described here is the hosted Chainstack Developer Portal MCP at the public URL; the local Mintlify preview is only for local documentation development and testing.

Tips and considerations:

• This MCP is a streamable HTTP server, not SSE. Use compatible clients to receive streaming responses.
• The content served is the docs for the Chainstack Developer Portal, so interacting with the MCP will surface documentation pages, references, and navigation-as-context capabilities.
• If you encounter connectivity issues, verify that the server URL https://docs.chainstack.com/mcp is reachable and that your agent’s MCP configuration points at that URL.
• For developers extending or contributing to the portal, Mintlify tooling (mintlify dev, mintlify install, etc.) is used for local testing of the docs, though it is separate from the MCP server endpoint used by AI agents.
• The hosted server may have rate limits or require proper formatting when requesting pages; consult your agent’s MCP client docs for guidance on request patterns and pagination if applicable.