# mcp-documentation-server MCP Server

Local-first document management and semantic search for AI coding agents

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**9 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 6.

### Most discussed

### Your MCP server is listed on DReview

Hi — just wanted to flag that MCP Documentation Server is listed on DReview (https://dreview.co/tools/mcp-documentation-server), a free directory of MCP servers with per-client install configs. No action needed on your end — feel free to link to the listing from your README if useful, or let me know if anything about the listing needs a correction.

Thanks for building this — it's a genuinely useful server.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server/issues/27) · 2026-08-06 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### bug: Non-JSON-RPC diagnostic logs are printed to stdout instead of stderr, breaking strict stdio clients

#### **Describe the bug**
When launching the `mcp-documentation-server` in `stdio` mode, the server prints standard diagnostic and startup information (such as data directories, server ports, and cache initialization logs) directly to `stdout` using `console.log()`. 

According to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification for `stdio` transport, the `stdout` stream must be kept clean and used **exclusively** for JSON-RPC messages. Any other output (diagnostic logs, initialization info) must 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server/issues/26) · 2026-07-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Support for *.mdx files

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
This is a feature request. It would be nice to also upload `*.mdx` documents.

**Describe the solution you'd like**
For the beginning it might be enough to just allow adding that extension. Since I am not aware of required differences when it comes to chunking and processing the documents I can't tell whether it would require additional changes.

Would you be willing to accept a PR for that to try it out?

Thanks you for this int

[Read the thread](https://github.com/andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server/issues/19) · 2026-03-31 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Server does not support completions Error

**Describe the bug**
When running a project I get following error:

```
npx -y @andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server
[Server] Gemini AI search tool enabled (GEMINI_API_KEY found)
file:///home/vlad/.npm/_npx/0f4320f1d578a8ff/node_modules/@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/dist/esm/server/index.js:134
                    throw new Error(`Server does not support completions (required for ${method})`);
                          ^

Error: Server does not support completions (required for completion/complete)
 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server/issues/15) · 2025-11-17 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Configurable base directory

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
At the moment the base directory is tied to `os.homedir()` which prevents one from having independent "workspaces".

**Describe the solution you'd like**
Something like `MCP_BASE_DIR` would do.

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Currently hackable with `HOME` modification.

**Additional context**
None.

@andrea9293 , have you thought about something like this, maybe?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server/issues/13) · 2025-09-13 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Lulu Ads — discovery + monetization for mcp-documentation-server

Hey — semantic search + smart chunking over docs with Gemini integration is a genuinely well-built tool for bridging the AI-knowledge gap on new frameworks/internal guides.

I'm building Lulu Ads (getlulu.dev), an opt-in listing + ad layer for MCP servers, useful as a discovery channel, with an optional disclosed-sponsorship layer if that's ever interesting (no code changes, fully opt-in).

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server/issues/29) · 2026-08-24 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 9 reports Pod holds for mcp-documentation-server](/mcp/mcp-documentation-server/issues).

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