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.

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 3.11.4 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"