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Dash Api Docs Mcp Server

Dash Api Docs Mcp Server

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github.com/KapeliMemory & Knowledge188Updated 13w ago
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About Dash Api Docs Mcp Server

Dash MCP Server is an MCP server for Dash, the macOS API documentation browser. It lets MCP clients search and load docsets installed in Dash, and the project is still a work in progress.

Key features

  1. 01Listing installed docsets
  2. 02Searching docsets and code snippets
  3. 03Loading documentation pages from search results
  4. 04Enabling full-text search for a docset

Use cases

  1. 01Letting an AI assistant look up API usage in installed docsets
  2. 02Retrieving code snippets and doc pages while coding

MCP support

This project is an MCP server that provides four tools to MCP clients: list_installed_docsets, search_documentation, load_documentation_page and enable_docset_fts.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dash": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "dash-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Run commanduvx dash-mcp-server

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
pypidash-mcp-server1.1.1

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

mcp-server-dash

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools to interact with the Dash documentation browser API.

Dash 8 is required. You can download Dash 8 at https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-8.

mcp-name: io.github.Kapeli/dash-mcp-server

Dash Server MCP server

Overview

The Dash MCP server provides tools for accessing and searching documentation directly from Dash, the macOS documentation browser. MCP clients can:

  • List installed docsets
  • Search across docsets and code snippets
  • Load documentation pages from search results
  • Enable full-text search for specific docsets
Notice

This is a work in progress. Any suggestions are welcome!

Tools

  1. list_installed_docsets
    • Lists all installed documentation sets in Dash
  2. search_documentation
    • Searches across docsets and snippets
  3. load_documentation_page
    • Loads a documentation page from a load_url returned by search_documentation
  4. enable_docset_fts
    • Enables full-text search for a specific docset

Requirements

  • macOS (required for Dash app)
  • Dash installed
  • Python 3.12 or higher
  • uv

Configuration

Using uvx
brew install uv
in claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
      "dash-api": {
          "command": "uvx",
          "args": [
              "--from",
              "git+https://github.com/Kapeli/dash-mcp-server.git",
              "dash-mcp-server"
          ]
      }
  }
}
in Claude Code
claude mcp add dash-api -- uvx --from "git+https://github.com/Kapeli/dash-mcp-server.git" "dash-mcp-server"

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