Dash Api Docs Mcp Server
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MCP server for Dash, the macOS API documentation browser
Details
- Author
- Kapeli
- GitHub stars
- 167
- Downloads
- 593
- Categories
- Search, Other, Developer Tools, Knowledge Base
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- List all installed documentation sets (docsets) in Dash
- Search across docsets and code snippets
- Load full documentation pages from search results
- Enable full-text search for a specific docset
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Dash Api Docs Mcp ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
Install uv via Homebrew, then configure the server in claude_desktop_config.json using the provided uvx command, or add it via claude mcp add in Claude Code. The server is invoked via uvx with the package from git+https://github.com/Kapeli/dash-mcp-server.git.
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"dash api docs mcp server": {
"dash-api": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"--from",
"git+https://github.com/Kapeli/dash-mcp-server.git",
"dash-mcp-server"
]
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"dash-api": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"--from",
"git+https://github.com/Kapeli/dash-mcp-server.git",
"dash-mcp-server"
]
}
}A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools to interact with theDashdocumentation browser API.
Dash 8 is required. You can download Dash 8 athttps://blog.kapeli.com/dash-8.
mcp-name: io.github.Kapeli/dash-mcp-server
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
This is a work in progress. Any suggestions are welcome!
- list_installed_docsets
- Lists all installed documentation sets in Dash
- Loads a documentation page from aload_urlreturned bysearch_documentation
- Enables full-text search for a specific docset
- macOS (required for Dash app)
- Dashinstalled
- Python 3.12 or higher
- uv
{ "mcpServers": { "dash-api": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "--from", "git+https://github.com/Kapeli/dash-mcp-server.git", "dash-mcp-server" ] } } }
claude mcp add dash-api -- uvx --from "git+https://github.com/Kapeli/dash-mcp-server.git" "dash-mcp-server"
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