@transcend-io/mcp-server-docs

Beta — this package is under active development. APIs may change without notice.

Transcend MCP Server for documentation lookup. Provides tools to list articles from the public docs index and fetch full markdown content on demand.

Requires Node.js ≥ 22.12 (see engines in package.json).

No authentication required. This standalone server reads public content from docs.transcend.io only. It does not use your Transcend API key or OAuth credentials, even if they are present in the environment (for example when launched via scripts/mcp-run.sh with secret.env loaded).

Install

Install the CLI globally:

npm install -g @transcend-io/mcp-server-docs

Or run from a checkout of this repository (see Run from the monorepo below).

Usage

transcend-mcp-docs

The process speaks MCP over stdio and is meant to be launched by an MCP client (for example, Cursor or Claude Desktop), not used as an interactive shell.

MCP client configuration

npx runs the package’s transcend-mcp-docs binary (see bin in package.json). No env block is required.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcend-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@transcend-io/mcp-server-docs"]
    }
  }
}

When developing in this repository:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcend-docs-local": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["packages/mcp/mcp-server-docs/dist/cli.mjs"]
    }
  }
}

Build first: pnpm exec turbo run build --filter="@transcend-io/mcp-server-docs..."

Run from the monorepo

# from the repository root
pnpm exec turbo run build --filter="@transcend-io/mcp-server-docs..."
pnpm -F @transcend-io/mcp-server-docs exec node ./dist/cli.mjs

Alternative: ./scripts/mcp-run.sh ./packages/mcp/mcp-server-docs/dist/cli.mjs (OAuth vars in secret.env are ignored by this server).

See CONTRIBUTING.md for workspace layout and pnpm --filter workflows.

Tools

• docs_list — List/search the Transcend docs index (llms.txt); optional section and keyword filters
• docs_fetch — Fetch full markdown for a docs article URL (host restricted to docs.transcend.io)

Related packages

Also available as part of the unified @transcend-io/mcp, which includes all domains and does require authentication. See the root README for the full list.