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DevShelf.io for AI agents

The hand-reviewed catalog of dev tools and resources, inside your coding agent.

Coding agents recommend tools from memory, and that memory goes stale. DevShelf.io gives your agent 1,479 tools and resources, each reviewed by hand, with pricing, alternatives and the date its link was last checked.

Connect via MCP

DevShelf.io runs a read-only remote MCP server. No account, no API key.

https://devshelf.io/mcp

Run this in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http devshelf https://devshelf.io/mcp

Check it with /mcp inside Claude Code. Add --scope project to share it with your team through .mcp.json.

Claude Code documentation

In Claude (web or desktop app), open Customize > Connectors, click + Add, then Add custom connector. Name it DevShelf, paste this URL and choose No sign-in:

https://devshelf.io/mcp

Available on all plans, Free included (one custom connector). On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it in Organization settings > Connectors.

Claude documentation

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (one project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "devshelf": {
      "url": "https://devshelf.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Cursor documentation

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace:

{
  "servers": {
    "devshelf": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://devshelf.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
code --add-mcp '{"name":"devshelf","type":"http","url":"https://devshelf.io/mcp"}'

Or add it to your user profile from the command line (second block).

VS Code documentation

Tools

  • search_tools: find tools for a need described in plain words, filtered by category and pricing.
  • get_tool: details of one tool: URL, description, pricing, tags, categories, date of the last check and 3 alternatives.
  • find_alternatives: the tools closest to a given one.
  • list_categories: every category with its slug and number of tools.

Try asking your agent

  • “Find an auth provider with a free tier that works with SvelteKit”
  • “What are alternatives to Algolia?”
  • “List transactional email services with pay-as-you-go pricing”

Without MCP

  • /llms.txt: an overview of the site and every category, for LLMs.
  • Add .md to any tool or category page for its Markdown version, e.g. /resource/supabase.md.
  • Or ask for Markdown on the same URL with the Accept: text/markdown header:
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://devshelf.io/category/email-notification-apis