MCP Documentation Server

What is MCP Documentation Server?

The MCP Documentation Server serves documentation for various applications using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It organizes and exposes documentation content—including quickstart guides and code examples—via MCP tools, and is designed for developers who want to integrate documentation into AI-assisted workflows.

How to use MCP Documentation Server?

Initialize the environment with uv init, uv venv, then install dependencies (fastapi, uvicorn, openai, fastmcp) and run uvicorn app.main:app. Start the server with ./scripts/start.sh. Connect Claude Desktop by adding a new MCP server configuration with the command npx mcp-remote pointing to http://localhost:8000/mcp-app-docs-server/mcp. Alternatively, inspect the server using npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector.

Key features of MCP Documentation Server

• Serves application documentation via MCP tools
• Organizes content in a content/ directory per application
• Provides quickstart and code_examples MCP tools
• Built with FastAPI and the fastmcp library
• Supports integration with Claude Desktop
• Allows inspection via the MCP Inspector tool

Use cases of MCP Documentation Server

• Serve quickstart guides to an AI assistant through MCP tools
• Provide code examples for an application on demand
• Integrate application documentation into a chat-based developer workflow

FAQ from MCP Documentation Server

What does the MCP Documentation Server do?

It exposes documentation (quickstart guides and code examples) as MCP tools so that AI assistants like Claude can retrieve them.

What tools does it provide?

Two MCP tools: quickstart (provides a quickstart guide for a specified application) and code_examples (provides code examples for a specified application).

What dependencies are required?

Python packages: fastapi, uvicorn, openai, fastmcp. The environment is set up with uv.

Where is the documentation stored?

Documentation is stored in the content/ directory. For the XYZ application, content is in content/xyz/.

How can I connect this server to Claude Desktop?

Add a server configuration in Claude Desktop’s Developer settings with the command npx mcp-remote http://localhost:8000/mcp-app-docs-server/mcp.