MCP MCP server · ai.smithery
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Provide your AI coding tools with token-efficient access to up-to-date technical documentation for…
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Ref is an MCP server that gives AI coding tools and agents token-efficient access to up-to-date technical documentation for APIs, services, and libraries. It exposes search and URL-reading tools that filter results and fetch only the relevant page content, aiming to reduce context rot and token costs.
You reach for it when you want your coding agent to pull accurate documentation context without flooding the model's context window.
Use it to
- Search public technical documentation from within your coding agent
- Fetch and convert specific URLs to markdown for agent consumption
- Minimize token usage when grounding agent answers in docs
- Use Ref as a documentation source for OpenAI deep research
For Developers using MCP-compatible AI coding tools like Cursor
- Runs
- hosted — you connect to it
- Transport
- streamable-http
- Tools
- 1
- Needs
- 1 environment variable, including secrets
- Version
- 3.0.0
- Last release
- 2025-10-28
topicsmcpdocumentationai-agentssearchdeveloper-toolstoken-efficiency