Context7 MCP server

Context7-HTTP is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that supports HTTP streaming for the Context7 project. It enables you to access Context7 features from anywhere without local installation, offering both SSE and HTTP streamable support for tools like library searching and documentation retrieval.

Installation

Running the Server

To run the Context7-HTTP server yourself:

$ context7-http \
    --debug \
    --bind-addr "0.0.0.0:8080" \
    --base-url https://context7.your-domain.com \
    --trusted-proxies "x-forwarded-for,10.0.0.0/8" \
    --heartbeat-interval 55s

Using Container Images

You can also run it as a Docker container:

$ docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/lrstanley/context7-http:latest

Other available tags:

$ docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/lrstanley/context7-http:0.2.0
$ docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/lrstanley/context7-http:master
$ docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/lrstanley/context7-http:0.1.0

Client Configuration

To use the Context7 MCP server with various clients, add the following configurations:

VSCode and Cursor

Add to your settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context7": {
      "url": "https://context7.liam.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to your Windsurf MCP config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context7": {
      "url": "https://context7.liam.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Zed

Add to your Zed settings.json:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "context7": {
      "url": "https://context7.liam.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

Run this command:

claude mcp add --transport sse context7 https://context7.liam.sh/sse

Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context7": {
      "url": "https://context7.liam.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available Resources

Context7-HTTP provides access to several resources:

• context7://libraries - returns high-level information about all libraries
• context7://libraries/<project>
• context7://libraries/top/<n> - returns the top n libraries, sorted by trust score or stars

The server supports two endpoint configurations:

• https://context7.liam.sh/mcp - HTTP streamable endpoint
• https://context7.liam.sh/sse (& /message) - SSE endpoint (deprecated in the MCP spec)

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "context7" '{"url":"https://context7.liam.sh/mcp"}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "context7": {
            "url": "https://context7.liam.sh/mcp"
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "context7": {
            "url": "https://context7.liam.sh/mcp"
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect