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myinstants-mcp MCP Server

Give your AI agent a soundboard. Millions of meme sounds from myinstants.com.

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Published as myinstants-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Published as myinstants-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

Question about auth approach

Hi @austenstone, the sound button MCP server is fun. For shared usage, adding user identity could help with usage tracking. I've built a simple auth layer for MCP. Want to try it?

Read the thread · 2026-06-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment

perf: switch cache I/O from sync to async

Problem

Cache reads/writes use readFileSync/writeFileSync, which block the event loop. In a stdio MCP server, this means the server can't process the next message until file I/O completes.

Currently not an issue (cache is small), but as the lookup table grows with hundreds of sounds, the blocking I/O adds latency to every play_sound and search_sounds call.

Fix

Replace:

Read the thread · 2026-02-18 · open · 1 comment

feat: configurable audio output device

Problem

Currently, sounds play through the system default audio output. There's no way to route audio to a specific device (e.g. a particular speaker, headphones, Bluetooth device, Cast speaker, etc.).

The server already has configurable env vars (MYINSTANTS_VOLUME, MYINSTANTS_CACHE, etc.) — audio device should follow the same pattern.

Proposed Design

Environment Variable

MYINSTANTS_DEVICE="Denon AVR-S760H"

Player Support

Each player has device selection flags:

Read the thread · 2026-02-18 · closed · 0 comments

feat: stop_sound tool to kill currently playing audio

Problem

Once a sound starts playing, there's no way to stop it. Long sounds (17s rick roll, etc.) play to completion. The agent should be able to interrupt playback.

Proposed Design

New Tool: stop_sound

stop_sound()  → kills current playback + clears queue

Implementation

The server already tracks spawned player processes via spawn(). We'd need to:

  1. Store the child process PID when spawnPlayer() is called
  2. stop_sound sends SIGTERM / kill() to the activ

Read the thread · 2026-02-18 · open · 0 comments

feat: local caching + favorites via MCP resources

Problem

Every play_sound or search_sounds call hits myinstants.com. When agents replay the same sounds frequently (vine boom, bruh, sad trombone), that's redundant API calls and added latency.

MCP Resources are supported by VS Code Copilot, Claude Desktop, and other clients — we should use them for local state.

Proposed Design

Cache Layer

Read the thread · 2026-02-18 · open · 0 comments

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