mcp/ref-tools-mcp repository overview

⁠Ref - Up-To-Date Docs MCP Server

Ref powerful search tool connets your coding tools with documentation context. It includes an up-to-date index of public documentation and it can ingest your private documentation (eg. GitHub repos, PDFs) as well.

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⁠MCP Info

⁠Image Building Info

Attribute	Details
Dockerfile	https://github.com/ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp/blob/83970a35627785a0589ae2dbe5510b4a3dd04146/Dockerfile⁠
Commit	83970a35627785a0589ae2dbe5510b4a3dd04146
Docker Image built by	Docker Inc.
Docker Scout Health Score
Verify Signature	COSIGN_REPOSITORY=mcp/signatures cosign verify mcp/ref-tools-mcp --key https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/keyring/refs/heads/main/public/mcp/latest.pub
Licence	MIT License

⁠Available Tools (2)

⁠Tools Details

⁠Tool: ref_read_url

A tool that fetches content from a URL and converts it to markdown for easy reading with Ref.

This is powerful when used in conjunction with the ref_search_documentation or ref_search_web tool that return urls of relevant content.

⁠Tool: ref_search_documentation

A powerful search tool to check technical documentation. Great for finding facts or code snippets. Can be used to search for public documentation on the web or github as well from private resources like repos and pdfs.

⁠Use this MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ref": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "REF_API_KEY",
        "mcp/ref-tools-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "REF_API_KEY": "ref-abcdefghi123"
      }
    }
  }
}

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