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DimensionFileScopeMCPYour AI already knows how to code. Now it knows your codebase.Context7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS56 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance11 / 2017 / 20
Documentation14 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience11 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Developers who need deep codebase context for AI assistants.
  • Teams that want to maintain code metadata automatically during development.
  • Projects using multiple languages (supports TS/JS, Python, C/C++, Rust, Go, etc.).
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Scenarios requiring only a simple file list without dependency analysis.
  • Environments without Node.js >=22.
  • Fully offline settings without an LLM (though basic features still work).
  • Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
  • Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
Required permissions
  • File system read and watch permissions (to scan the codebase).
  • Write permissions (to create `.filescope/data.db` database).
  • Network permissions (optional, to connect to a local LLM endpoint).
  • Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
  • Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
Risks and side effects
  • Importance scoring is heuristic and may not align with all project preferences.
  • Regex-based parsing for some languages may be less accurate than AST.
  • LLM summaries depend on external services, potentially raising privacy concerns.
  • Database may consume significant space on large codebases.
  • The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
  • Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor AI, CodexClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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