Build it with Claude

You don't have to write the integration yourself. Install our Claude skill and Claude can build a search page on your index, import your data, and answer questions about your records — because it already knows your API, your authentication model, your field conventions, and the safe way to do each. Just ask in plain English:

“Build me a search page for my movies list.”
“Import this CSV of new releases into my movies list and show me the top results for 'heist'.”
“Add a typeahead box to my site that searches movies and actors together.”

1. Install the skill

Download the skill bundle, then drop it into your Claude skills folder. It works with Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop, and Claude.ai.

Download the Search Stack skill

For Claude Code, unzip it into your skills directory:

# user-level (available in all your projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
unzip searchstack-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

Restart Claude Code (or run /skills) and the searchstack skill is ready. Claude loads it automatically whenever your request is about Search Stack. For Claude Desktop, add it under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

2. Let Claude talk to your data (optional)

To let Claude query and manage your index directly — not just write code — connect the Search Stack MCP server. It exposes your index as tools that Claude can call, scoped by the API key you supply. Use a read-only key for querying, or a read/write key to let Claude import and manage records. See the live MCP demo for exactly which tool Claude calls for a given request, and the result it gets back.

In Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http searchstack https://mcp.searchstack.dev/ \
  --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Grab an API key from the console — use a read-only key to let Claude query, or a read/write key to let it import and manage records. Then run /mcp to confirm the connection and ask away.

3. Prefer to wire it yourself?

The skill builds on the same public packages you can use directly — a typed client for TypeScript and .NET that mirrors the API one-to-one:

# TypeScript / JavaScript
npm install @searchstack/public-api

# .NET
dotnet add package SearchStack.PublicApi

The API is also self-describing for agents: point any tool at https://api.searchstack.dev/api/info and https://api.searchstack.dev/api/examples for an always-current manifest and worked examples. See Components for the drop-in autocomplete widget.