Claude Code, on every server you own
Add AskYourStack to Claude Code with one command and it can work on your servers from the terminal you already use: set up a fresh VPS, build a Magento or WordPress stack, chase a failing cron or move a shop to a new box. You never hand it an SSH key.
Free plan: one server, read-only. No card needed.
Connect Claude Code to your server in four steps
- STEP 1
Connect your server
Sign up free, name your server in the dashboard and paste the one-line install on the server, as the user who owns your sites or as root for the whole server. It shows up online within seconds.
- STEP 2
Add AskYourStack to Claude Code
Run (the address is the same for everyone):
claude mcp add --transport http askyourstack https://askyourstack.com/mcp - STEP 3
Sign in and allow
Start claude, run /mcp, pick askyourstack and choose Authenticate. An AskYourStack page opens in your browser: sign in if it asks and press Allow. AskYourStack then shows as connected with its tools. A private address from the dashboard works too, for a machine without a browser.
- STEP 4
Ask
Try: Look at my server and tell me what you would improve. Claude Code fetches the right playbook and starts with server_facts.
What you can ask Claude Code
Describe the outcome in plain words. Claude Code looks at the server first, explains its plan, and asks you before anything risky.
More in the prompt library, and for SEO see technical SEO with Claude Code.
The tools Claude Code gets
Built for running Linux servers, PHP shops and their SEO, with built-in playbooks for fresh servers, Magento, WordPress, hardening, backups, check-ups, malware cleanup, migrations, bot attacks and technical SEO.
Commands and files
run, read_file and write_file on any of your servers, with every overwritten file kept.
Long jobs
start_job runs installs, compiles and imports in the background; job_output follows them.
Magento and WordPress
list_sites, magento and wp run bin/magento and wp-cli as the site's owner.
Databases
db_query and db_dump use the site's own credentials, so the password never reaches the chat.
Snapshots and rollback
snapshot before risky work, rollback to undo it, and the rollback can be undone too.
Malware scan
Looks for backdoors, skimmers in the database, disguised PHP and suspicious cron entries.
Health
health_report covers disk, memory, failed services, certificates, updates and Magento cron.
Server moves
transfer copies a site straight from one of your servers to another, never through the chat.
Search Console, GA4 and SEO
Google Search Console, Analytics 4, Core Web Vitals, page audits and your access logs, read-only, next to the server.
Server access, with you holding the keys
A change window you open
Nothing changes on a server until you open changes on it, for 1 to 8 hours, never for good. Outside that window Claude Code can look, diagnose and plan, and is told to ask you.
Approvals only you can give
Deleting data, dropping databases, touching SSH or the firewall: Claude Code gets a link and waits. Approving needs you signed in on askyourstack.com, so text planted in a log or web page cannot approve anything.
An open-source agent you can verify
The only thing on your server is public code (github.com/shopwhizzy/askyourstack-agent). Every release names its source commit, so you can rebuild it and compare the hash. It runs as an ordinary Linux user unless you choose root, and one command on the server locks it to reads.
Every action logged
Each command, file write and result, with its risk level, in your activity log. Pause one server or all of them in one click.
How windows, approvals and modes work · Check every claim yourself
Tested on real servers
From our own test runs with Claude Code on fresh Rocky Linux 10 servers.
raw Rocky Linux 10 box to a live Mage-OS shop with OpenSearch, Valkey, cron and Let's Encrypt
maintenance window when a live shop was moved to a second server (21 minutes in all)
planted attacks found by the malware scan in a 40,000-file shop, with no false positives
Questions about AskYourStack and Claude Code
Why not just let Claude Code SSH into the server?
You can, but then it has your key and an unrestricted shell. With AskYourStack nothing is stored on your laptop, destructive actions wait for your approval, /etc is saved before changes, every command is logged with its risk level, and you can pause a server or all of them in one click.
What has Claude Code actually done with it?
In our own tests on a raw Rocky Linux 10 box, Claude Code built a Mage-OS shop with OpenSearch, Valkey, production mode, cron and Let's Encrypt in about 30 minutes, and moved a live shop to a second server in 21 minutes with a 56-second maintenance window.
Does it work with several servers at once?
Yes. One connection covers every server on your plan. list_servers shows them, and each tool call names the server it runs on, so one conversation can work across all of them.
Do long installs time out?
No. Anything that takes more than a minute runs as a background job on the server through start_job; Claude Code checks on it with job_output, reading only the new output each time.
Also works with Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, and any client that supports remote MCP servers.
Connect Claude Code to your first server
Start free with one server in read-only mode. Upgrade when you want Claude Code to fix things.
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