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DimensionOKFy MCP ServerTurn docs into Open Knowledge Format bundles served to AI agents over a local read-only MCP server.Context7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS63 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability11 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions13 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance11 / 2017 / 20
Documentation15 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Teams that need the knowledge behind agent answers to stay inspectable, versioned, and portable
  • Local-first workflows that avoid hosted indexes, cloud registries, or cloud refresh workers
  • Scenarios requiring visible source references and conservative link resolution that warns instead of guessing
  • Deployments that want deterministic lexical search without an embedding service or LLM key
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Retrieval quality that depends on vector or semantic search
  • Heading-based splitting, or Obsidian semantics like Canvas, Bases, PDFs, images, audio, video, and Dataview fields
  • Importing GitHub repository URLs directly (there is no dedicated importer; use a local checkout or docs folder)
  • Workflows that need to write back to the knowledge source or need agent-callable write tools
  • 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 local bundle directories and source cache and refresh state under ~/.okfy
  • Make same-origin network fetches to registered documentation sites when refresh is enabled (respects robots.txt by default)
  • Be launched as a stdio subprocess by an MCP client; the tools themselves are read-only
  • 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
  • HTML cleanup quality varies by documentation site and can affect search results
  • Preflight rejects DNS-resolved private targets, but fetch-time DNS is not IP-pinned, leaving a theoretical DNS rebinding risk
  • The default stale-while-refresh mode can briefly serve non-latest docs; blocking or off modes change this
  • One page or file becomes one concept with no heading-based splitting, so granularity can be coarse
  • `--force` replaces a non-empty output bundle, and unsafe output directories are rejected unless an explicit dangerous override is given
  • 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, Claude Code, Codex, CursorClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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