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ContextMCP

Self-hosted alternative to Context7

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ContextMCP is an open-source, self-hosted MCP server that builds a queryable index from documentation spread across repositories. It parses, chunks and indexes content automatically from a config.yaml file, and serves results from Cloudflare Workers. It was built by the engineering team at Dodo Payments to give their AI agent Sentra reliable, up-to-date documentation access.

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