stack_tags
ActiveTool of mcp-stackexchange
List or search StackOverflow / StackExchange tags with question counts and synonym info — top tags by popularity, tags matching a name fragment, or stats for specific tags. Answers "most popular StackOverflow tags", "how many questions are tagged X", "which tags have more than N questions". Example: stack_tags({ sort: "popular", limit: 20 }) or stack_tags({ inname: "python" })
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"site": {
"type": "string",
"description": "StackExchange site (default stackoverflow)"
},
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"description": "popular (question count, default) | name | activity"
},
"tags": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Exact tag names to look up, semicolon-separated, e.g. \"java;python;rust\""
},
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Max tags to return, 1-100 (default 20)"
},
"inname": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter to tags whose name contains this fragment, e.g. \"python\""
},
"_apiKey": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional — a StackExchange API key (free, 10k/day) for a dedicated quota. The gateway supplies a platform key; pass your own only to override."
},
"min_count": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Only return tags with at least this many questions (server-side when sort=popular)"
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.50.
Parent server
mcp-stackexchange
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-stackexchange
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