ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Ref MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that gives AI coding agents fast, token-efficient access to documentation for public and private APIs, services, and libraries. It uses agentic search with session-aware filtering and relevance-based page section extraction to minimize context window usage.

Use cases

• let my coding agent look up library documentation without wasting context tokens
• search API docs from Claude Code or another MCP-compatible agent
• avoid context rot when an agent reads long documentation pages
• give an LLM agent up-to-date docs for private internal libraries
• reduce repeated search results across an agent's session
• fetch only the relevant sections of a documentation page

When to choose

• you use MCP-compatible coding agents like Claude Code and want accurate, current library documentation
• context window usage from documentation lookups is a problem
• you need documentation access for both public and private libraries

When to avoid

• your agent does not support the Model Context Protocol
• you need general web search rather than documentation-focused retrieval
• you want a fully offline or self-hosted documentation solution

Facets

service · maturity active

search-engine documentation mcp rag developer-tools developer-tools documentation large-language-models cli mcp-server coding-agent documentation-search token-efficient context-management ai-agents nodejs typescript mcp

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