| FMRS | 57 / 100 · C | 80 / 100 · B | 79 / 100 · B |
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| Reliability | 8 / 20 | 14 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 11 / 20 | 16 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 10 / 20 | 17 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 15 / 20 | 15 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 13 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 15 / 20 |
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| Best for | - Developers who prioritize local processing and privacy
- Agents that need web tooling without per-query charges
- Teams needing search, crawling, caching, and research in one surface
- macOS, Linux, or Windows users with about 1.5 GB of available disk space
| - 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 seeking a fully hosted service without local browser or model downloads
- Workflows that require guaranteed access to every anti-bot or challenge-protected site
- Environments that prohibit public-web crawling or optional third-party LLM synthesis
- Users who need to keep a modified network-service version closed source
| - 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 | - Local filesystem access is needed for cache, configuration, embeddings, and models under ~/.wigolo/.
- Network access is needed to search and retrieve the public web.
- Browser mode may start a local browser engine; Linux may require additional operating-system libraries.
- Research, agent, and answer-format search can optionally call Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq, Ollama, or another compatible provider.
- Authenticated pages and page actions may require session information.
| - 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 | - Public search engines and target sites may fail, become stale, rate-limit requests, or block access; wigolo reports degradation and challenge failures in its output.
- Datacenter IP reputation can reduce access to challenge-protected sites.
- Optional LLM synthesis sends relevant requests to the selected provider; Ollama or another compatible local endpoint can keep synthesis local.
- Browser and model downloads require about 1.5 GB of disk space.
- The project uses AGPL-3.0-only; modified versions run as network services must publish their modifications.
| - 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, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Antigravity, Any MCP client | Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp | Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Smithery.ai |
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| Tools | 10 | 2 | 19 |
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