# arabold/docs-mcp-server

Grounded Docs MCP Server: Open-Source Alternative to Context7, Nia, and Ref.Tools

Repository: https://github.com/arabold/docs-mcp-server
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/docs-mcp-server
Homepage: https://grounded.tools
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: agentic-ai, copilot, cursor, llm, mcp, vscode, windsurf
Last push: 2026-08-22T19:07:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 38
- inputs: {"age_days": 534, "days_push": 11, "days_rel": 19, "gap_med": 2, "n_releases_24m": 78}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1692, forks 178 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:22.599194+00:00)

## What it is
A self-hosted MCP server that indexes documentation from websites, GitHub, npm, PyPI, and local files so AI coding assistants can query up-to-date, version-specific docs. It is an open-source alternative to Context7, Nia, and Ref.Tools, with a CLI and web interface.

## Use cases
- give my AI coding assistant up-to-date library documentation
- reduce LLM hallucinations when writing code against a specific library version
- index documentation from a website or GitHub repo for AI retrieval
- query docs for the exact version of react my project uses
- self-hosted alternative to Context7 for Cursor or VS Code Copilot
- search indexed documentation from the command line
- convert documentation pages to markdown for LLM context

## When to choose
- you use MCP-compatible AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, Cline, VS Code, Windsurf) and want grounded, version-specific documentation
- you want a private, local-first documentation index that keeps code and queries on your machine
- you need to index docs from many sources including PDFs, Office files, and local folders

## When to avoid
- you need a fully managed hosted documentation service without running anything locally
- you do not use any MCP-compatible AI tooling
- you only need simple web search rather than a curated documentation index

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: rag, search-engine, mcp, web-scraping, parser, llm-inference
- domain: developer-tools, documentation, artificial-intelligence, large-language-models
- platform: cli, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: mcp-server, ai-coding-assistants, documentation-indexing, context7-alternative, hallucination-reduction, version-specific-docs, retrieval-augmented-generation, search, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- arabold/docs-mcp-server (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:22.599194+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:38:13.085896+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/arabold/docs-mcp-server (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:22.599194+00:00, sha cbae098131e3)
  - homepage: https://grounded.tools (fetched 2026-08-29T11:13:24.995714+00:00, sha 1d705a9ca4dc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.