Dash Mcp Server

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.

mcp-name: io.github.Kapeli/dash-mcp-server

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 3.12 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"