Plug and Ship

plugandship-mcp

An MCP server for Plug and Ship. It lets your coding agent search the Plug and Ship index of MCP servers, agent skills and coding-agent plugins without leaving the chat.

It is read-only. It calls the public Plug and Ship API (/api/v1) and needs no API key.

Listed in the official MCP Registry as dev.plugandship/plugandship-mcp.

Tools

Tool	Arguments	What it returns
search_tools	query or task (keywords or a plain-language task, e.g. "query my Postgres from Cursor"), type? (mcp / skill / plugin), client? (claude-code / cursor / codex / grok-bot), remote? (only MCP servers with a public HTTPS endpoint), limit? (1 to 50, default 10)	Tools ranked by relevance (full-text + semantic match; stars, recent commits, a valid one-click config and a license only break ties), each with a one-line reason it matches, install command and page link. Also returns structured output, including what was understood from the task. client: "grok-bot" keeps only MCP servers with a public remote (HTTP) endpoint.
get_tool	slug	Full details for one tool: description, repo, stars, tags, install command, remote endpoint if any.
trending	period (day / week / month), type?, limit?	Fastest-growing tools: stars gained in the period, from Plug and Ship's own daily star snapshots.
list_best	topic?, limit?	A curated "best of" list. Leave topic empty to list topics (for example grok-bot-connectors, voice-agents, postgres-mcp-servers).

Use the hosted endpoint (no install)

Remote MCP server, Streamable HTTP, stateless, no auth:

https://plugandship.dev/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http plugandship https://plugandship.dev/mcp

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json in a project)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plugandship": { "url": "https://plugandship.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.plugandship]
url = "https://plugandship.dev/mcp"

Run it locally (stdio)

Requires Node.js 18 or newer. Runs straight from GitHub, no npm package needed (the built dist/ is committed):

npx -y github:plugandship/plugandship-mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add plugandship -- npx -y github:plugandship/plugandship-mcp

Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plugandship": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:plugandship/plugandship-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Codex

[mcp_servers.plugandship]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "github:plugandship/plugandship-mcp"]

From a checkout

git clone https://github.com/plugandship/plugandship-mcp
cd plugandship-mcp
npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js

Self-host Streamable HTTP

node dist/index.js --http --port 3333 --host 127.0.0.1
# endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:3333/mcp

Stateless, JSON responses, POST only. Requests with a browser Origin other than localhost are rejected. It binds to 127.0.0.1 by default. Put it behind HTTPS before exposing it anywhere.

Configuration

Env var	Default	Purpose
PLUGANDSHIP_API_URL	https://plugandship.dev	API base URL (use http://localhost:3000 against a local site).

The public API is cached and rate-limited (about 60 requests per minute per IP). On a 429 the tool returns a short "try again in a minute" error.

Test

npm test                                            # stdio + local HTTP, against https://plugandship.dev
PLUGANDSHIP_API_URL=http://localhost:3000 npm test  # against a local site
MCP_REMOTE_URL=https://plugandship.dev/mcp npm run test:remote  # the hosted endpoint

npm test builds the server, starts it over stdio and over Streamable HTTP, connects with the official MCP SDK client, lists the tools and calls each one, including error cases (unknown slug, invalid input, foreign Origin). test:remote runs the same checks against a remote endpoint.

Registry

server.json is the MCP Registry entry: a remote-only listing (streamable-http, https://plugandship.dev/mcp) under the dev.plugandship namespace, verified by DNS.

License

MIT