One config line. No credentials.

An agent calls orient and receives everything it needs to make a correct API call — with no docs reading, no human setup, and nothing to clean up afterwards.

01 / Install

Add the server.

terminal

claude mcp add sandboxapis -- npx -y @sandboxapis/mcp

Or point any MCP client at the equivalent stdio command.

02 / Tools

What the agent gets.

orient — start here. Universe, providers + base URLs, live-vs-snapshot and how to pin, the org and teams, 7 notable entry points, where the coverage manifest lives, and an access block: keyed or not, the requests left this hour, and where to raise the limit.
check_budget — free to call, and the thing to call before a loop. The real hourly window (limit, remaining, when it resets), read through an endpoint that is exempt from the budget it reports.
list_repositories, get_repository, list_pull_requests, get_pull_request (with reviews), list_issues, get_user — REST-identical results with provider-form ids.
search_commits_by_author — cross-referenceable SHAs.
get_snapshot — a pinned, reproducible hostname for CI.

03 / Prefer HTTP?

Skip MCP entirely.

Point your client library at the base URLs directly — see the GitHub and GitLab quickstarts, or the agent guide.