Askboard

askboard

askboard is a small local bridge to FeatQ's hosted MCP server, which runs a feature-request board for a software product: customers and teammates file requests, vote and comment on them, and the board keeps track of what is new, planned, in progress or done.

The bridge keeps no board data of its own. It serves the upstream server's tool list locally, exactly as captured from the live endpoint, and forwards each tool call upstream, returning the result untouched. One tool in the captured surface writes — update_request_status changes a request's status on the hosted board — and one generates a document: generate_spec drafts an implementation spec for a single request. Everything else reads.

Tools

• list_requests — list the board's feature requests. Optional filters: status (new, considering, planned, in_progress or done), sort (votes or newest, default votes) and limit (1-50, default 20).
• get_request — one feature request in full, with its comments. Required: id.
• get_board_stats — the board at a glance: request counts, vote totals and the top requests. No arguments.
• get_ranked_requests — the top requests by demand score, excluding ones already marked done. A vote counts as one point and a comment as half a point, scores decay as a request ages on a 90-day scale, and ties go to the newer request. Optional: limit (1-20, default 5).
• generate_spec — an agent-ready markdown implementation spec for one feature request. Required: id.
• update_request_status — move a request to a new status (new, considering, planned, in_progress or done). Required: id, status. Marking a request done makes it appear in the public changelog.
• list_competitor_claims — what watched competitor comparison pages say about this product. Read only; claims are signals, not votes. Optional: state (new, added or dismissed, default new) and limit (1-100, default 25).

Configuration

• FEATQ_MCP_URL (optional) — override the upstream endpoint. Defaults to https://featq.com/api/mcp. (The override hook is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction.)
• FEATQ_API_KEY (optional) — when set, every upstream request carries an Authorization: Bearer <key> header. When it is not set, no auth header is sent. (This forwarding is also a labelled reconstruction; the original surface was captured keyless.)

Forwarding mechanics

On the first tool call the client opens a streamable HTTP session with the upstream: a JSON-RPC initialize request (protocolVersion 2025-03-26, clientInfo name askboard), then a notifications/initialized notification, then the tools/call request carrying the caller's arguments unchanged. When the upstream answers initialize with an Mcp-Session-Id header, that value rides on every later request of the session, which is reused for the life of the process. Replies may arrive as plain JSON or as server-sent events; both are read.

Successful upstream results pass through verbatim, including any isError flag the upstream sets. Failures — a JSON-RPC error, a non-2xx status, an unreadable response, or a request that cannot be completed — come back as an isError result whose text starts with askboard error: (this rendering is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction).

CLI

Each tool is also a subcommand taking one JSON argument string (omit it for tools that take none):

npx @reneturcios/askboard list_requests '{"status":"planned","sort":"votes"}'npx @reneturcios/askboard get_request '{"id":"req-42"}'npx @reneturcios/askboard get_board_statsnpx @reneturcios/askboard update_request_status '{"id":"req-42","status":"done"}'npx @reneturcios/askboard --version

Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on an isError result, 2 on a usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/askboard mcp

MCP client config:

{  "mcpServers": {    "askboard": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/askboard", "mcp"]    }  }}

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/askboarddocker run --rm ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/askboard --version

The container's default command is mcp, so the first form is a stdio MCP server; any other arguments reach the CLI normally.

Development

npm installnpm run buildnpm testnpm run dev

The test suite runs entirely against a stubbed JSON-RPC upstream — no live network calls.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.