Record · grounded-docMCP serverOpen sourceVerified Sep 23, 2026

Grounded Docs MCP Server

A local, open-source index of version-specific library documentation for AI coding assistants.

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Coding agents that need version-specific library docs without sending code to a hosted service.

About Grounded Docs MCP Server

Grounded Docs (docs-mcp-server) fetches official documentation from websites, GitHub, npm, PyPI and local files and indexes it on your machine, so an assistant can query the exact library versions a project uses. It positions itself as an open-source alternative to Context7, Nia and Ref.Tools, and also works as a CLI.

Grounded Docs MCP Server is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 1.8k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Add Grounded Docs MCP Server to your MCP client

Generated from the launch command in the project's README. Your client starts the server on demand.

Claude CodeRun in your terminal

claude mcp add grounded-docs-mcp -- npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest

Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grounded-docs-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "grounded-docs-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grounded-docs-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Codex~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.grounded-docs-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["@arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest"]

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