# Python Docs MCP Server MCP Server

The canonical Python stdlib oracle for AI coding agents — always free, always MIT, token-frugal.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `python-docs-mcp-server` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**33 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 12.

### Most discussed

### [v0.5.0] benchmark adapters — define OpenAI/Google model matrix

## Context

Parent: #63. Methodology: `docs/benchmarks/PUBLIC-BENCHMARK-METHODOLOGY.md`.

Aymen explicitly wants OpenAI and Google model families included. This issue defines the model/client matrix and provider adapter contracts without letting model choice blur into a single fake tool-quality score.

## Goal

Add the benchmark model matrix and provider adapter contracts for OpenAI and Google-backed runs, with tests that use mocks rather than paid/live calls.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] The 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/73) · 2026-06-08 · closed · 3 comments

### [v0.5.0] benchmark tokens — Claude token-count integration after client rewrap (live-phase-gated)

## Context

Parent: #63. Methodology: `docs/benchmarks/PUBLIC-BENCHMARK-METHODOLOGY.md` (work package 6; "Token Measurement" section). Roadmap decision 5.8: Claude tokenizer, measured after client-side rewrap. Maintainer decision on record (PLAN.md Amendment 2026-07-08): **the Anthropic count-tokens API is the counting mechanism, confined to the maintainer-run live phase** — exact counts for headline claims, zero runtime network access or new dependencies in the server itself. Token records (mer

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/89) · 2026-07-08 · closed · 2 comments

### [v0.5.0] benchmark adapters — competitor MCP tool adapters (Context7, GitMCP, DeepWiki, Ref.tools)

## Context

Parent: #63. Methodology: `docs/benchmarks/PUBLIC-BENCHMARK-METHODOLOGY.md` (work package 4, real-adapter half — #72 delivered the manifest format; #85 delivered LLM-provider adapters, which are a different axis). Eligibility rules and candidate set (Context7, GitMCP, DeepWiki, Ref.tools) live in the methodology's "Systems Under Test" section.

**Status: NOT agent-ready.** Filed by the orchestrator per PLAN.md T6(b); Vision must review, pin the competitor versions/endpoints, create t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/87) · 2026-07-08 · closed · 2 comments

### [v0.5.0] benchmark corpus — mechanical slice: schema, validator, placeholder fixture (split from #71)

## Context

Mechanical slice split out of #71 under maintainer approval (D4 in the 2026-07-08 gate record, sign-off mirrored on #63). #71's question authorship and quality review remain permanently the maintainer's; this issue delivers only the schema, the validator, and a clearly-synthetic placeholder fixture so #88 (correctness scorer) can unblock without waiting for the full 50-question corpus.

**Hard boundary:** `docs/benchmarks/corpus.yml` is the canonical path reserved for the human-autho

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/94) · 2026-07-08 · closed · 1 comment

### [v0.5.0] docs — write docs/architecture/DESIGN.md (eight-layer design document)

## Context

Roadmap §4 assigns v0.5.0 "`docs/architecture/DESIGN.md` | 5-page design document tying the ADRs together." The eight layers (principle 2.7, enumerated in ADR-006: source connector, ingestion, storage, retrieval, budget, serializer, cache, transport) map to eight planned ADRs, of which four exist or are in flight this run: ADR-001 (source adapters), ADR-006 (serialization), ADR-007 (cache), ADR-008 (transport). ADR-002–005 (ingestion, storage, retrieval, budget) belong to unshipped v

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/93) · 2026-07-08 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### [v0.5.0] benchmark reporting — generate raw report and README-safe summary

## Context

Parent: #63. Methodology: `docs/benchmarks/PUBLIC-BENCHMARK-METHODOLOGY.md`.

The benchmark must produce public-facing output that is credible, boringly auditable, and impossible to confuse with hand-picked marketing numbers.

## Goal

Add benchmark reporting that converts raw run artifacts into a full report plus a README-safe summary block gated on reproducible data.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] README-safe summaries present strict tool + model pairings, for example `python-docs-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/74) · 2026-06-08 · closed · 1 comment

### [v0.5.0] benchmark runner — add reproducible CLI and artifact layout

## Context

Parent: #63. Methodology: `docs/benchmarks/PUBLIC-BENCHMARK-METHODOLOGY.md`.

This is an agent-ready plumbing issue. The runner should make the benchmark reproducible from the shell without deciding the corpus or claiming results.

## Goal

Add a reproducible benchmark runner CLI that loads a corpus and competitor manifest, executes configured benchmark cells, and writes raw artifacts in a stable layout.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] A tool failure, timeout, or MCP protocol crash on

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/72) · 2026-06-08 · closed · 1 comment

### [v0.5.0] benchmark corpus — define schema and 50-question eval pack

## Context

Parent: #63. Methodology: `docs/benchmarks/PUBLIC-BENCHMARK-METHODOLOGY.md`.

This is the human-led corpus issue. The public benchmark is only credible if the question set is fixed, balanced, version-aware, and auditable before results are known.

## Goal

Define the benchmark corpus schema and the 50-question Python stdlib evaluation pack used by the v0.5.0 public benchmark.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] `docs/benchmarks/corpus.schema.json` defines the corpus shape: stable ID, cate

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/71) · 2026-06-08 · open · 0 comments

### [v0.3.0] ingestion — pin CPython source by commit SHA

## Context

- **Per-issue context file (read first):** [`.planning/agent-context/cpython-source-sha-pin.md`](../../agent-context/cpython-source-sha-pin.md)
- Pipeline: [`AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md`](../../../AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md)
- Roadmap: [`STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md`](../../../STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md) §4 (v0.3.0, build-time supply-chain hardening), decision **5.10**
- Touch-points: `ingestion/cpython_versions.py` (`CPythonDocsBuildConfig`, `CPYTHON_DOCS_BUILD_CONFIG`), `_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/51) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### [v0.3.0] docs — write ADR-001 (Source Adapters)

## Context

- **Per-issue context file (read first):** [`.planning/agent-context/adr-001-source-adapters.md`](../../agent-context/adr-001-source-adapters.md)
- Pipeline: [`AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md`](../../../AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md)
- Roadmap: [`STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md`](../../../STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md) — principles **2.1, 2.2, 2.7**
- Source-adapter touch-points (to describe, not change): `ingestion/cpython_versions.py`, `ingestion/sphinx_json.py`, `ingestion/inventory.p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/50) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### [v0.3.0] docs — write ADR-006 (Serialization)

## Context

- **Per-issue context file (read first):** [`.planning/agent-context/adr-006-serialization.md`](../../agent-context/adr-006-serialization.md)
- Pipeline: [`AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md`](../../../AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md)
- Roadmap: [`STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md`](../../../STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md) — principle **2.5**, **2.7**; decisions **5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.8**
- ADR-006 "specifically enables the v0.3.x `format` parameter work" (roadmap §4).

## Goal

Record the already-l

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/49) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### [v0.3.0] security — audit and document PyYAML safe-loader discipline

## Context

- **Per-issue context file (read first):** [`.planning/agent-context/pyyaml-safe-loader-audit.md`](../../agent-context/pyyaml-safe-loader-audit.md)
- Pipeline: [`AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md`](../../../AGENT-EXECUTION-PIPELINE.md)
- Roadmap: [`STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md`](../../../STRATEGIC-ROADMAP-2026-05-29.md) §4 (v0.3.0), decision **5.11**
- Known YAML call sites: `src/mcp_server_python_docs/server.py:57`, `src/mcp_server_python_docs/ingestion/sphinx_json.py:597` (both alread

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ayhammouda/python-docs-mcp-server/issues/48) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

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