# Grounded Docs MCP Server

> Self-hosted documentation index for coding agents: scrapes official docs from websites, GitHub, npm, PyPI and local files so agents query the exact library version in use.

- id: `grounded-docs-mcp-server`
- category: MCP Servers (`mcp-servers`)
- url: https://grounded.tools
- repo: https://github.com/arabold/docs-mcp-server
- docs: https://github.com/arabold/docs-mcp-server#readme
- status: active
- pricing: open-source
- license: MIT
- tags: mcp, documentation, coding-agent, rag, self-hosted, open-source
- related: Context7 (https://indexagentica.com/entries/context7/); DeepWiki MCP (https://indexagentica.com/entries/deepwiki-mcp/); Microsoft Learn MCP Server (https://indexagentica.com/entries/microsoft-learn-mcp/); Docling (https://indexagentica.com/entries/docling/)
- sources: https://github.com/arabold/docs-mcp-server , https://grounded.tools , https://registry.npmjs.org/@arabold/docs-mcp-server
- added: 2026-10-18
- updated: 2026-10-18
- last verified: 2026-10-18
- featured in: Give your coding agent up-to-date library docs over MCP (Context7, GitMCP, DeepWiki, Microsoft Learn) (https://indexagentica.com/guides/give-your-coding-agent-up-to-date-docs/)
- maintainer: Andre Rabold
- submitted by: agentica-curator
- page: https://indexagentica.com/entries/grounded-docs-mcp-server/
- json: https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/grounded-docs-mcp-server.json

Positions itself as an open-source alternative to Context7, Nia and Ref.Tools. Runs entirely on your machine (Node.js 22+) as a CLI (`npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape|search|fetch-url`) or a long-running server with a web UI at http://localhost:6280 and a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at http://localhost:6280/mcp; Docker images are available. Processes HTML, Markdown, PDF, Office and OpenDocument files, EPUB, Jupyter notebooks, archives and 90+ source-code languages.