| FMRS | 61 / 100 · C | 80 / 100 · B | 79 / 100 · B |
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| Reliability | 9 / 20 | 14 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 9 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 14 / 20 | 17 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 16 / 20 | 15 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 13 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 15 / 20 |
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| Best for | - Developers already using the Salesforce CLI and a DX project
- Teams that want an AI coding assistant to operate directly on Salesforce metadata, Apex, and LWC
- Projects migrating Aura to LWC or adopting DevOps Center workflows
| - Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
- Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
| - Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
- Teams performing supply chain security assessments
- Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
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| Not for | - Users without a local Salesforce CLI setup or any authorized org
- Cases needing only trivial read-only lookups without wanting the context overhead of the broader toolset (can be trimmed via --toolsets, but the default footprint is still sizable)
| - 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)
| - Projects outside the NPM ecosystem (e.g., pure Python/Go)
- Environments without network access to deps.dev, OSV.dev, and the npm registry
- Scenarios requiring maintenance by an official upstream vendor
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| Required permissions | - Requires orgs to be pre-authorized locally via `sf org login web` or equivalent
- Access is scoped per `--orgs`: specific orgs, the default org/Dev Hub, or (use with caution) all authorized orgs
- Several tools have write access — deploying/retrieving metadata, creating or deleting scratch orgs, assigning permission sets, committing DevOps Center work items
| - 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
| - Network access to the NPM registry and external services (deps.dev, OSV.dev, OpenSSF, npms.io, GitHub)
- Read access to workspace lockfiles (pnpm-lock.yaml, package-lock., yarn.lock) for cache invalidation
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| Risks and side effects | - `ALLOW_ALL_ORGS` grants the server access to every locally authorized org, which can expose production orgs if misconfigured
- Tools like `deploy_metadata` and `delete_org` make real changes or deletions to orgs — misuse carries data/config risk
- Telemetry is enabled by default; use `--no-telemetry` explicitly if privacy/compliance requires disabling it
- `DEFAULT_TARGET_ORG`/`DEFAULT_TARGET_DEV_HUB` resolve dynamically on every tool call, so switching your local default org changes which org the server can act on
| - 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
| - Third-party READMEs and changelogs are untrusted external content; they are wrapped in tags with _meta flags but should still be handled cautiously
- Depends on availability and accuracy of external services
- Batch requests are capped at 25 packages to prevent registry enumeration; larger sets require batching
- Third-party open source project, not officially maintained by NPM or Anthropic
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| Supported clients | Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Cursor, Trae, Windsurf, Zed | Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp | Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor |
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| Tools | 89 | 2 | 19 |
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