Jdocmunch Documentation Retrieval

How to Set Up and Use Jdocmunch Documentation Retrieval

jDocMunch (`jdocmunch-mcp`) is a token-efficient MCP server for documentation exploration and retrieval that indexes local documentation directories or GitHub repositories into structured sections, then exposes targeted tools for navigating, searching, and fetching specific documentation content. Instead of dumping entire README files into context, it lets AI assistants fetch only the relevant sections they need, with each response reporting how many tokens were saved versus a naive full-document approach. Developers and AI workflows use it to give Claude or other agents precise access to large documentation sets — including third-party SDKs, internal wikis, or open-source project docs — without blowing through context budgets.

pip install jdocmunch-mcp
# Verify installation:
jdocmunch-mcp --help

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_github_token
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-your-key  # optional, for section summaries
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-key             # optional, for Gemini embeddings

jdocmunch-mcp index-local /path/to/your/docs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jdocmunch": {
      "command": "jdocmunch-mcp",
      "args": ["serve"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "ghp_your_github_token",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "sk-ant-your-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jdocmunch": {
      "command": "jdocmunch-mcp",
      "args": ["serve"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "ghp_your_github_personal_access_token",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "sk-ant-your-anthropic-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

- "Index the repository anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python and show me the table of contents"
- "Search the indexed docs for sections about authentication"
- "Get the section on 'streaming responses' from the Anthropic SDK docs"
- "List all repositories that have been indexed"
- "Check for broken links in the documentation for owner/repo"