Makers Page MCP
The indie stack Model Context Protocol server — one connection for your founder tools, instead of wiring a hundred separate ones.
Indie founders already juggle socials, Stripe, analytics, GitHub, and a database. Each usually means another MCP, another config block, another context the agent doesn't share. Makers Page MCP aggregates those surfaces into one local server your coding agent already understands, so it can draft a launch post with revenue context, check a deploy, or pull product metrics without hopping tools.
makers-page-mcp runs locally next to Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or any other MCP client. v1 ships X first: your agent drafts a channel-native post about what you just built, you approve it, and it goes out through the real X API v2. Nothing publishes without a human in the loop. More connectors (payments, analytics, GitHub, DBs, and more) are on the roadmap.
makers.page — the indie stack MCP that already knows your tools.
Table of contents
Why this exists
Most agents end up with a pile of MCP servers — one for GitHub, one for Stripe, one for analytics, one for socials — each with its own auth and none sharing context. Makers Page MCP is the opposite bet: one indie stack connection that already knows the tools founders actually use, so the agent can act across the stack instead of juggling integrations.
Today that means approval-gated publishing to X. Next: the rest of the stack (see Roadmap).
- One MCP, not a hundred. Aggregate the indie stack (socials, payments, analytics, GitHub, DBs) behind a single local server instead of a config file full of one-off connectors.
- Shared context by design. The agent shouldn't re-learn who you are and what you shipped every time it switches tools.
- Agent-native, not another dashboard. Same protocol, same config file as your other MCP servers. No new app to log into.
- Approval-gated by default. Every post is a
draft until you explicitly call approve_draft. publish_draft refuses to post anything that hasn't been approved, unless you turn that off yourself. The same pattern will apply to anything that spends money or posts publicly.
- Built for real, paid API calls. X's write API costs money per post (see below). The draft/approve/publish split exists so an agent can never spam your account or your wallet.
- Crash-safe by design. Publishing uses atomic file writes, keyed locks around concurrent operations on the same draft, and a three-way error split (definitive failure, ambiguous network failure, unexpected error) so a dropped connection can never turn into a silent duplicate post.
- Local-first. Drafts and credentials live on your machine (
~/.local/share/makers-page-mcp, ~/.config/makers-page-mcp), written with 0600 permissions, not in someone else's cloud.
- Zero lock-in. It's a stdio MCP server distributed on npm under the MIT license. Read the source, fork it, self-host it.
How it compares
| Manual / browser hopping | Separate MCP per tool | Zapier / Make | Makers Page MCP |
|---|
| Lives inside your coding agent | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| One connection for the indie stack | No | No (N configs) | Partial (N apps) | Yes (aggregates) |
| Shared context across socials, money, code, data | No | No | Only with glue | Yes (destination) |
| Human approval before anything ships or spends | Depends on you | Depends on each server | No (auto-triggered) | Yes, by default |
| Open source / self-hostable | (n/a) | Varies | No | Yes (MIT) |
| Where data lives | You | Mixed | Their servers | Your machine |
v1 covers X posting today; the aggregator columns describe where this indie stack MCP is headed.
Cost per post
As of 2026, X's API is pay-per-use for self-serve developer accounts: creating a post costs $0.015 (plain text) or $0.20 (if the post contains a URL), charged against credits you prepay in the X developer console. There's no free write tier anymore. Every publish_draft call is a real charge: treat it accordingly (approve deliberately, don't script bulk test-publishing).
Quick start
1. Create an X developer app
- Go to the X developer portal and create (or open) a project + app.
- Under User authentication settings, enable OAuth 2.0.
- Set App permissions to Read and write.
- Set the Type of App to Web App, Automated App or Bot (this gives you a Client ID, and a Client Secret if confidential).
- Add an exact-match Callback URI / Redirect URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8879/callback
(must be a loopback host: 127.0.0.1, localhost, or ::1 — non-loopback URIs are rejected at auth time).
- Copy the Client ID (and Client Secret, if shown).
2. Install
Pick one:
Option A: npm (recommended, no clone needed)
npx -y makers-page-mcp-auth
npx/bunx fetch and cache the package on first run; nothing to build yourself.
Option B: from source
git clone https://github.com/alexcloudstar/makers.page-mcp.git
cd makers.page-mcp/mcp
bun install
bun run build
3. Set credentials and authorize
Set these environment variables (from your X developer app, step 1):
export TWITTER_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id
export TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET=your-client-secret
export TWITTER_REDIRECT_URI=http://127.0.0.1:8879/callback
If you're building from source, you can instead copy .env.example to .env and fill in the same values. Bun loads .env automatically for anything run with bun (bun run auth, bun run dev, bun dist/index.js). .env is gitignored, so your keys never get committed.
Run the one-time authorization flow:
npx -y makers-page-mcp-auth
bun run auth
This prints an authorize URL: open it, log in as the X account you want to post from, and approve. The server captures the redirect locally and stores an access + refresh token at ~/.config/makers-page-mcp/credentials.json. Tokens auto-refresh on future use; re-run auth if you revoke access, or after upgrading to a version that adds scopes (e.g. media.write for image/GIF/video uploads).
4. Connect it to your coding agent
Add to your Cursor mcp.json (Settings → MCP, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json). The same shape works for Claude Desktop/Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and other MCP clients, just under each tool's own config file:
If you installed via npm:
{
"mcpServers": {
"makers-page": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "makers-page-mcp"],
"env": {
"TWITTER_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
"TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret",
"TWITTER_REDIRECT_URI": "http://127.0.0.1:8879/callback"
}
}
}
}
(bunx works the same way if you'd rather use Bun: "command": "bunx", "args": ["-y", "makers-page-mcp"].)
If you built from source:
{
"mcpServers": {
"makers-page": {
"command": "bun",
"args": ["--env-file=/absolute/path/to/mcp/.env", "/absolute/path/to/mcp/dist/index.js"]
}
}
}
Bun's automatic .env loading is relative to the process's working directory, which most MCP clients don't guarantee is mcp/. The explicit --env-file flag above points straight at your .env regardless of where the server is launched from, so you don't have to duplicate credentials inside mcp.json itself.
Works with any MCP client
This server only uses the standard MCP stdio transport: no client-specific extensions, no remote/HTTP requirement. That means the same command/args/env block above works everywhere, just under each client's own config file:
| Client | Config file |
|---|
| Cursor | ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Settings → MCP) |
| Claude Desktop | claude_desktop_config.json |
| Claude Code | .mcp.json (project) or ~/.claude.json (user) |
| OpenAI Codex (CLI, Desktop, IDE extension) | ~/.codex/config.toml, or run codex mcp add makers-page -- npx -y makers-page-mcp |
| Google Gemini CLI | ~/.gemini/settings.json (global) or .gemini/settings.json (project), or gemini mcp add |
| GitHub Copilot (VS Code, Copilot SDK) | .vscode/mcp.json or mcp.json |
| Windsurf (Cascade) | ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, same command/args shape as Cursor |
| Cline (VS Code / JetBrains extension) | its MCP settings panel, or the underlying cline_mcp_settings.json |
| Zed | settings.json → context_servers |
| JetBrains AI Assistant (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, ...) | Settings → Tools → AI Assistant → MCP Servers → Add (stdio) |
All of these read the same mcpServers-style JSON (Gemini CLI and JetBrains use slightly different top-level keys, mcpServers and a UI form respectively, but the same command/args/env fields underneath). If your tool of choice isn't listed here but supports MCP over stdio, the config above should work unchanged.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|
create_draft | Save a new draft post for X. Required: { channel: "x", text }. Optional: parts (thread), poll, mediaPaths (absolute local paths, max 4), quoteTweetId, communityId, shareWithFollowers, paidPartnership, allowLinksInMainPost. No http(s) links in the main post — put URLs in parts[1+] unless the user explicitly forces allowLinksInMainPost. |
list_drafts | List drafts, optionally filtered by status (draft, approved, rejected, publishing, published, deleted). |
get_draft | Fetch a single draft by id. |
update_draft | Edit draft content (same fields as create; pass null to clear an optional field). Resets an approved or rejected draft back to draft so it can be re-approved. |
approve_draft | Mark a draft approved. Required before publishing (unless approvals are disabled). |
reject_draft | Mark a draft rejected. Also reconciles a draft stuck in publishing when nothing was posted (no recorded live ids). If live ids were recorded, use delete_published_draft instead. |
publish_draft | Publish an approved draft to X via POST /2/tweets (uploads media first when needed; threads reply to the previous part). Returns the live URL(s). If the request fails ambiguously (e.g. a timeout), or a thread fails mid-way, the draft is left in publishing rather than auto-retried. |
edit_published_draft | Edit the root post of a published draft (edit_options.previous_post_id). Re-attaches media/quote when present. Each edit creates a new post id, which is stored locally. Rejects polls and community posts. |
delete_published_draft | Delete every stored post id on X whenever live ids are recorded (published, partial publishing, or legacy/corrupt records), then mark the local draft deleted. |
get_x_account | Check connection status and show the connected @handle. |
lookup_x_user | Resolve an @handle to a user id (and DM eligibility). |
get_dm_rate_limit | Show local DM send limits and current usage. |
create_dm_draft | Save a draft DM. Required: text plus a target — recipientId/recipientUsername (1:1), participantIds/participantUsernames with conversationType: "group" (new group), or conversationId (reply). Optional: one mediaPaths entry. |
list_dm_drafts | List DM drafts, optionally filtered by status (draft, approved, rejected, sending, sent, deleted). |
get_dm_draft | Fetch a single DM draft by id. |
update_dm_draft | Edit a DM draft (pass null to clear optional fields). Resets approved drafts to draft. |
approve_dm_draft | Mark a DM draft approved. Required before sending (unless approvals are disabled). |
reject_dm_draft | Mark a DM draft rejected, or reconcile one stuck in sending. |
send_dm_draft | Send an approved DM via the X API. Enforces local rate limits. |
list_dm_events | Read recent events in a 1:1 DM thread (participantId or username). |
list_dm_inbox | Read recent DM events across all conversations (inbox view for agent context). |
list_dm_conversation_events | Read recent events in a conversation by conversationId (1:1 or group thread). |
get_x_post_metrics | Fetch impressions, likes, reposts, replies, quotes, and bookmarks for up to 100 post ids. |
get_x_account_summary | Calendar-day impressions and engagements via GET /2/tweets/analytics (aligned with x.com account analytics). Period totals and top posts for the window. |
analyze_x_posting_times | Hour-of-day analysis: avg impressions and engagement rate by when you posted. |
get_top_engagers | Rank who commented the most on your top-level X posts for a given calendar day (default yesterday, timezone-aware). Finds the top-level posts you started that day via GET /2/users/:id/tweets, then for each one pulls every reply in that post's conversation via GET /2/tweets/search/recent (sweeps in replies anywhere in a thread, not just the root), excluding yourself. Ranks commenters by comment count, then likes on their comments. Read-only; no drafts. Same 7-day Recent Search limit as be_trendy applies to older dates. |
be_trendy | Discover what's trending right now on X within a specific product niche, via X Recent Search scoped to the niche/keywords, not X's generic global trending list. Required: productName, productDescription, niche, targetAudience. Optional: keywords, language. Filters spam and near-duplicates, then returns scored trendingTopics (with sample tweets and engagement numbers), painPointSignals (demand-signal posts asking for recommendations/alternatives), and a post-timing recommendation. Does not generate content itself, use the returned data plus the product's context to write the actual post. |
create_retweet_draft | Save a draft retweet or undo-retweet for a post id. Not executed until approved. |
list_retweet_drafts | List retweet/undo drafts, optionally filtered by status. |
get_retweet_draft | Fetch a single retweet/undo draft by id. |
approve_retweet_draft | Mark a retweet/undo draft approved (required before execution unless approvals disabled). |
reject_retweet_draft | Mark a retweet/undo draft rejected; also reconcile drafts stuck in executing. |
retweet_post | Retweet an approved draft immediately via POST /2/users/:id/retweets. |
undo_retweet | Undo an approved retweet draft via DELETE /2/users/:id/retweets/:tweet_id. |
Typical agent flow: create_draft → show the user the draft → user says "approve" → approve_draft → publish_draft. | |
Typical retweet flow: create_retweet_draft → user approves → approve_retweet_draft → retweet_post (or undo_retweet for undo drafts).
Typical DM flow: lookup_x_user (optional) → create_dm_draft → user approves → approve_dm_draft → send_dm_draft.
To reply in context: list_dm_inbox or list_dm_conversation_events → draft with conversationId → approve → send.
Typical trend-discovery flow: be_trendy → agent writes a post from the returned trendingTopics/painPointSignals → create_draft → user approves → publish_draft.
X create/update fields
| Field | Notes |
|---|
text | Main post copy. Must equal parts[0] when parts is set. On update_draft, if both text and parts are sent and disagree, text wins and becomes parts[0]. No http(s) URLs unless allowLinksInMainPost is true. |
parts | Thread of 2+ posts. Each part after the first replies to the previous one (standard X thread chain). Put every link in parts[1+], never in the main post. Polls are not allowed on threads. |
poll | { options: string[2..4], durationMinutes: 5..10080 }. Mutually exclusive with mediaPaths and quoteTweetId. |
mediaPaths | Absolute local paths (.jpg/.jpeg/.png/.webp/.gif/.mp4), 1–4 files. Up to 4 images, or one GIF, or one video (no mixing). Symlinks are rejected; MIME/category is chosen from the file extension and verified with magic-byte sniffing before upload. Requires re-auth with media.write (see below). |
quoteTweetId | Quote another post. Enterprise-only on self-serve / pay-per-use X API tiers — the tool still sends it; X may reject. |
communityId / shareWithFollowers | Post to a Community; shareWithFollowers requires communityId. |
paidPartnership | Sets paid_partnership: true on create (and on edit when provided). |
allowLinksInMainPost | Opt out of the default ban on links in the main post. Only when the user explicitly insists. |
Caveats (X product limits)
- Links in comments, not the main post: By default,
create_draft / update_draft / edit_published_draft reject http:// or https:// URLs in text / parts[0]. Put links in follow-up thread parts (parts[1], parts[2], …). Override only with allowLinksInMainPost: true when the user forces it.
- Re-auth for media: OAuth scopes now include
media.write. If you authorized before this change, run makers-page-mcp-auth / bun run auth once more.
- Re-auth for DMs: OAuth scopes now include
dm.read and dm.write. Re-run auth after upgrading to send or read DMs.
- Quote posts: OpenAPI documents quote as Enterprise-only on self-serve; expect API errors on lower tiers.
- Edit: Requires X Premium, roughly a 30-minute window and up to 5 edits from the original. Each edit returns a new post id (we update the local draft). Polls and community posts are not editable.
- Replies: Self-serve apps can create self-threads (reply to your own previous part). Replies to other accounts are blocked unless summoned.
- Cashtags: Self-serve allows at most one cashtag (
$TICKER) per post.
be_trendy requires a paid API tier: it calls X's Recent Search endpoint, which needs at least a Basic paid X API access tier. A Free-tier app will get 403/429 errors.get_top_engagers also uses Recent Search, so it needs the same paid tier, and only ever sees comments from the last 7 days regardless of how old the post being checked is.
If a publish attempt fails ambiguously
publish_draft marks a draft publishing before calling the X API, and only clears that if the API gives a
definitive answer (a real HTTP response, or a clear "not authenticated" error). If the request instead fails
in a way that could mean X received it anyway (a timeout or network drop), the draft is deliberately left in
publishing and not auto-reverted, so an agent can't retry and risk a second, real, paid post.
Reconciliation:
- Nothing posted (no live ids recorded): call
reject_draft or update_draft to reset.
- Partial thread (some ids recorded): do not retry
publish_draft. Call delete_published_draft to remove the live posts, or finish the remainder on X manually.
- Ambiguous single post (may or may not have posted, no ids recorded): check X yourself; if it did not post, reset with
reject_draft / update_draft; if it did, leave the draft as-is and note the URL.
Configuration
Environment variables:
| Variable | Default | Purpose |
|---|
TWITTER_CLIENT_ID | (none) | Required. X/Twitter OAuth 2.0 Client ID. |
TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET | (none) | Set if your X app is a confidential client. |
TWITTER_REDIRECT_URI | http://127.0.0.1:8879/callback | Must match the callback registered in the X developer portal and use a loopback host (127.0.0.1, localhost, or ::1). |
MAKERS_PAGE_CONFIG_DIR | ~/.config/makers-page-mcp | Where credentials are stored. |
MAKERS_PAGE_DATA_DIR | ~/.local/share/makers-page-mcp | Where drafts are stored. |
MAKERS_PAGE_REQUIRE_APPROVAL | true | Set to false to let agents publish drafts without a separate approval step. |
MAKERS_PAGE_MAX_POST_LENGTH | 280 | Max characters per post (X's weighted count: URLs count as 23, emoji count once); raise this if you're on X Premium. |
MAKERS_PAGE_MAX_DM_LENGTH | 10000 | Max characters per DM. |
MAKERS_PAGE_DM_MAX_PER_HOUR | 10 | Local cap on DM sends per rolling hour (before calling X). |
MAKERS_PAGE_DM_MAX_PER_DAY | 50 | Local cap on DM sends per rolling 24 hours. |
MAKERS_PAGE_DM_MIN_INTERVAL_MS | 3000 | Minimum milliseconds between consecutive DM sends. |
Roadmap
Destination: one local indie stack MCP that already knows the founder tools — socials, payments, analytics, GitHub, databases — so you don't maintain a hundred separate connections. v1 ships X only, on purpose: prove the approval-gated write loop before adding more surfaces that spend money or post publicly.
Shipped
- X manage-posts: text, threads, polls, media (chunked upload), quote, community +
share_with_followers, paid partnership, edit, and delete — still behind draft → approve → publish with crash-safe / no-auto-retry semantics.
- X DMs: draft → approve → send (1:1 text, media attachment, group conversations) with local rate limits; read inbox and thread events;
@handle lookup.
- X analytics (read-only): post metrics, account summary (today + top posts), posting-time analysis. No local DB; fetches from X API on demand.
- X retweets: draft → approve →
retweet_post / undo_retweet (immediate; no scheduling).
be_trendy: niche-scoped X trend discovery via Recent Search, spam/duplicate filtering, and scored trending topics + demand-signal posts to ground content the agent writes (no LLM call inside the tool itself).
Next
- More socials — LinkedIn, Reddit, Threads, Bluesky; same draft adapted to channel-native tone and length.
- Payments & code — Stripe (Lemon Squeezy as a secondary path), GitHub.
- Analytics & data — PostHog / Plausible, Postgres via Supabase / Neon.
- Ops extras — Resend, Sentry, as the core set stabilizes.
- Launch directories — research launches and draft listing copy where useful; submit only where a stable API or first-class MCP write path exists. Today that is thin: Product Hunt community MCPs are read-only (the PH API has no create-post mutation), Hacker News write MCPs scrape browser login (no public write API), and Peerlist / BetaList / Uneed / Fazier / Microlaunch / Dev Hunt / Tiny Launch have no MCP for submissions. MCP registries (official registry, Smithery, PulseMCP, Glama, mcp.so) are for listing this server, not for submitting your product to launch boards.
Always
- Local-only drafts and credentials, whichever connectors land.
- Approval gates for anything that posts publicly or spends money.
Want a connector prioritized? Open an issue.
Development
bun test
bun run typecheck
FAQ
Does this post automatically, without me seeing it first?
No, not by default. Every draft starts in draft status, and publish_draft refuses to run unless the draft has gone through approve_draft first. You can disable that gate with MAKERS_PAGE_REQUIRE_APPROVAL=false if you fully trust the flow, but it's opt-in.
Is this a hosted service? Where does my data go?
It's a local process. Drafts, DM drafts, retweet drafts, and rate-limit state are stored as files under MAKERS_PAGE_DATA_DIR (default ~/.local/share/makers-page-mcp); your X OAuth tokens live under MAKERS_PAGE_CONFIG_DIR (default ~/.config/makers-page-mcp/credentials.json). All of these files are written with 0600 permissions. Nothing goes through a third-party server; the server talks directly to api.x.com.
Why does creating a post cost money?
That's an X API pricing decision, not this project's. As of 2026 there's no free write tier for X's API; see Cost per post above for current rates. The approval gate exists specifically so an agent can't accidentally run up a bill.
What happens if publishing fails partway through?
See If a publish attempt fails ambiguously. Short version: definitive failures revert the draft automatically; anything ambiguous (timeouts, dropped connections) is left in publishing for you to check and reconcile manually, so you never get a silent double-post.
Does this work with agents other than Cursor?
Yes. It's a plain stdio MCP server with no client-specific extensions, so it works anywhere MCP is supported: Claude Desktop/Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, Zed, JetBrains AI Assistant, and more. See Works with any MCP client.
Can I self-host or fork this instead of using the npm package?
Yes, it's MIT-licensed. See Option B: from source to build it yourself, and CONTRIBUTING.md if you want to send changes back upstream.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, testing, and PR guidelines.
Security
Found a vulnerability? Please don't open a public issue: see SECURITY.md for how to report it privately.
License
MIT. See the changelog for release notes.
Built by @alexcloudstar for makers.page — the indie stack MCP.