XF 2.3 Adding MCP (Model Context Protocol) in xenForo - ChatGPT / Claude / Cursor

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Hi all,

We are looking into implementing MCP support for XenForo, which would allow you to connect ChatGPT or other AI agents to interact with your forum. We see this primarily as a community management feature that could help generate newsletters, identify content issues, and streamline moderation tasks with the help of AI.

I searched through existing community discussions but didn’t see much mention of this, which made me curious as to why. It seems like a powerful tool for helping manage communities more effectively.

I’d really appreciate hearing your thoughts and opinions on this before we jump further down this rabbit hole 🙂
 
Kirby said:
Personally I don't see thaaat much potential for AI usage in XenForo for Users / Admins / Mods.

A MCP server for development tasks could be nice though.
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Thanks for the feedback - I am not sure what you mean by development task - but wouldn't it easier to load the entire xenForo source code folder in Cursor instead of via MCP? if your goal is to fast track development of add-on and so on?
 
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Imagine you are working on a template and want to add a new phrase.

Your AI tool detects this and adds / autocompletes the code snippet, but it can't add the phrase itself directly.
What it can do is to add the phrase txt file and run xf-dev:import-phrases afterwards.
But this is rather complicated / inefficient, you don't really want to reimport all phrases of an Add-on just because one phrase was added.

Now if there was a MCP server that offers addPhrase the used AI tool could create the phrase directly.
This could be done for every Add-on data (routes, permissions, etc).
 
Kirby said:
Your AI tool detects this and adds / autocompletes the code snippet, but it can't add the phrase itself directly.
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Sure it can ;)

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