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Token-efficient search for coding agents over public and private documentation.
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Ref MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that gives coding agents token-efficient search over public and private documentation. It exposes search and URL-fetching tools designed to return only the relevant parts of documentation pages, reducing context usage.
Use it when you want your agent to pull accurate documentation context without inflating token costs or degrading model performance.
Use it to
- Search technical documentation via ref_search_documentation
- Fetch and convert URL content to markdown via ref_read_url
- Search private/internal documentation sources
- Use as a source for OpenAI deep research
For Developers using AI coding tools like Cursor
- Runs
- hosted — you connect to it
- Transport
- streamable-http
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- 1 environment variable
- Version
- 3.0.1
- Last release
- 2025-10-28
topicsmcp-serverdocumentationsearchcoding-agentstoken-efficiency