xenForo Developer MCP Server

[Andy R]

I would like to make a suggestion. We constantly have to modify Xenforo via add-ons (ours and others), it would be nice if there was either a remote MCP server or a local one we could install, that our agents could connect to for getting context about Xenforo internals, add-on structures, coding paradigms, command line options, etc., so we can build better add-ons and other modifications.

Architectures like Laravel do this, for example, Boost: https://laravel.com/ai/boost

Often times, models get confused because they are relying on old training data that is out of sync for current XF versions. A single source of truth I feel would help foster better add-ons and possibly more of them.

 

[briansol]

is that not this?

XF 2.3 Thread 'What's new in XenForo 2.3.10?'

Mar 5, 2026

Later this week we will be releasing XenForo 2.3.10 with a couple of notable additions for developers.

Phrase tools​

For more years than I've been at the company, we have had an internal tool which we use during development of features to help us keep on top of phrases. It scans the code base to detect strings in templates that might need to become phrases and also looks for certain delimited strings in PHP code that can also be converted to phrases.

In XenForo 2.3.10 we have (finally!) polished this up and converted them to CLI commands.

Template and Template Modification...​

• Chris D
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[Andy R]

is that not this?

XF 2.3 Thread 'What's new in XenForo 2.3.10?'

Mar 5, 2026

Later this week we will be releasing XenForo 2.3.10 with a couple of notable additions for developers.

Phrase tools​

For more years than I've been at the company, we have had an internal tool which we use during development of features to help us keep on top of phrases. It scans the code base to detect strings in templates that might need to become phrases and also looks for certain delimited strings in PHP code that can also be converted to phrases.

In XenForo 2.3.10 we have (finally!) polished this up and converted them to CLI commands.

Template and Template Modification...​

• Chris D
• Replies: 50
• Forum: Have you seen...?

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No.

Think of it as something like this: https://docs.xenforo.com/devs

But that AI could query against, organized and built around model context concepts.

 

[Andy R]

is that not this?

XF 2.3 Thread 'What's new in XenForo 2.3.10?'

Mar 5, 2026

Later this week we will be releasing XenForo 2.3.10 with a couple of notable additions for developers.

Phrase tools​

For more years than I've been at the company, we have had an internal tool which we use during development of features to help us keep on top of phrases. It scans the code base to detect strings in templates that might need to become phrases and also looks for certain delimited strings in PHP code that can also be converted to phrases.

In XenForo 2.3.10 we have (finally!) polished this up and converted them to CLI commands.

Template and Template Modification...​

• Chris D
• Replies: 50
• Forum: Have you seen...?

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I asked ChatGPT to make a better reply than I did.

I do not mean the new CLI tooling.

What I am asking for is closer to an MCP server, or some other machine-readable developer context layer for XenForo itself.

Right now, when AI tools help write XenForo add-ons, they often rely on outdated or incomplete knowledge. That leads to wrong code, old patterns, and bad assumptions about the current framework.

What I would like is an official source that AI agents can query directly for current XenForo developer knowledge, things like:

add-on structure
entity and finder patterns
service classes
template and phrase usage
extension points
CLI commands
best practices for current versions

So this is not really a request for more developer features inside XenForo. It is a request for a reliable, up to date, AI-consumable source of truth about how to build for XenForo correctly.


Something similar in spirit to developer docs, but exposed in a way AI coding tools can use directly.