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DimensionLat MCP ServerA knowledge graph for your codebase, written in markdownContext7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS62 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability10 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance14 / 2017 / 20
Documentation15 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience11 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Teams and individual developers who want a maintainable knowledge graph for their codebase
  • Users of coding agents who want them to work from stable, searchable context
  • Projects that treat markdown as the documentation medium and want docs and source to stay in sync
  • Environments that need offline semantic search (the default local WASM embedding model)
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Small projects that only need a single flat AGENTS.md file (limited benefit from a knowledge graph)
  • Teams that do not use coding agents and do not plan to maintain markdown domain docs
  • Users expecting an out-of-the-box hosted service or a cloud multi-user documentation platform
  • Projects unwilling to add // @lat: annotations to source code
  • 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
  • Read/write access to the project repository (lat init creates the lat.md/ directory and configures coding agents' hooks and instructions)
  • Read access to API keys when hosted embeddings are configured: the LAT_LLM_KEY environment variable, a file named by LAT_LLM_KEY_FILE, or a shell command named by LAT_LLM_KEY_HELPER
  • Write access to local index and config (lat reindex and lat config involve local caches and a config file)
  • 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
  • If hosted embeddings are used with an API key (OpenAI or Vercel AI Gateway), relevant text may be sent to an external service; the default local model makes no network requests
  • LAT_LLM_KEY_HELPER executes a shell command to print the key; if that variable is set from an untrusted source it poses a command execution risk
  • A key file with weak permissions could be read by other local processes
  • A knowledge graph that is not kept up to date with lat check can drift from the actual code and mislead agents
  • lat init modifies coding agents' hooks and instructions, which may affect existing workflows
  • 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 Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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