Summary
Connects Claude directly to Dash's documentation browser API on macOS, letting you search installed docsets, load documentation pages, and manage full-text search without leaving your conversation. You can list what docsets are installed, run searches across multiple documentation sets or code snippets, and pull up specific pages using the load URLs that Dash returns. Handy when you're deep in a coding discussion and need to reference API docs for Swift, Python, or any of the 200+ docsets Dash supports. Requires Dash 8 and works through Dash's native search capabilities.
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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
- list_installed_docsets
- Lists all installed documentation sets in Dash
- search_documentation
- Searches across docsets and snippets
- load_documentation_page
- Loads a documentation page from a
load_urlreturned bysearch_documentation
- Loads a documentation page from a
- 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"
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UpdatedMar 17, 2026
