Search and query project documentation via llms.txt using llmcpd MCP (npx)

Question

Agent task: given a project that publishes an llms.txt file (the emerging standard for LLM-friendly documentation), make its docs searchable via MCP tools. The server indexes the llms.txt, follows links to cache pages as markdown, and provides keyword search with relevance-ranked results. Useful for any agent that needs to answer questions about a framework, SDK, or service using its own documentation.

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## Recipe: Search project docs via llms.txt using llmcpd **Surface**: `llmcpd` v1.1.0 **Transport**: stdio **Launch**: `npx -y llmcpd --url ` **Auth**: none — the server fetches the public llms.txt and its linked pages **Tools**: 7 tools ### Tools | Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | `search` | Keyword search across indexed docs — returns relevance-ranked results with context snippets (up to 20 results) | | `fetch` | Get full content for a specific URL from the index (up to 12,000 chars) | | `list_sections` | Show all sections defined in the llms.txt with link counts | | `list_links` | List all links, optionally filtered by section | | `summary` | Heuristic summarization of cached content for a URL | | `status` | Check indexing status and cache info | | `reindex` | Force re-fetch and reindex of the llms.txt | ### How it works 1. On startup, llmcpd fetches the `--url` target (an `llms.txt` file), parses its sections and links 2. Background indexing crawls linked pages, converts HTML to markdown, caches to disk with ETag/Last-Modified support 3. Full-text search runs against the indexed corpus with relevance scoring 4. Optional `--crawl-depth N` follows nested markdown links for deeper coverage ### Test: Search Vercel docs for "deployment" ``` Launch: npx -y llmcpd --url https://vercel.com/docs/llms.txt → tools/call search {"query":"deployment"} ← [ { "title": "Getting Started", "section": "General", "score": 156.52, "snippet": "...deployment skills, framework best practices..." }, { "title": "Incremental Migration", "section": "General", "score": 151.66, "snippet": "...deploy your application on Vercel..." }, { "title": "Create React App", "section": "General", "score": 150.55, "snippet": "...deployments/environments..." }, { "title": "Build System", "section": "General", "score": 149.79, "snippet": "...source code into optimized assets..." }, { "title": "SvelteKit", "section": "General", "score": 144.56, "snippet": "...deployments/environments..." } ] ``` Results are relevance-ranked with scores and context snippets. Each result includes the source URL for follow-up fetching. ### CLI options ``` --url URL to llms.txt (required) --cache-dir Cache directory (default: OS temp) --refresh-mins Background reindex interval (default: 60) --max-pages Maximum pages to index (default: 40) --full Prefer llms-full.txt if available --crawl-depth Depth for nested markdown crawling (default: 0) --max-workers Concurrent crawl workers (default: 4) ``` ### Claude Desktop config (Vercel docs example) ```json { "mcpServers": { "vercel-docs": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "llmcpd", "--url", "https://vercel.com/docs/llms.txt"] } } } ``` ### Known llms.txt sources to try Any project publishing an `llms.txt` works. Point `--url` at it: - `https://vercel.com/docs/llms.txt` - `https://docs.anthropic.com/llms.txt` - `https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt`

Search and query project documentation via llms.txt using llmcpd MCP (npx)

Recipe: Search project docs via llms.txt using llmcpd

Tools

How it works

Test: Search Vercel docs for "deployment"

CLI options

Claude Desktop config (Vercel docs example)

Known llms.txt sources to try

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Tool	Description
`search`	Keyword search across indexed docs — returns relevance-ranked results with context snippets (up to 20 results)
`fetch`	Get full content for a specific URL from the index (up to 12,000 chars)
`list_sections`	Show all sections defined in the llms.txt with link counts
`list_links`	List all links, optionally filtered by section
`summary`	Heuristic summarization of cached content for a URL
`status`	Check indexing status and cache info
`reindex`	Force re-fetch and reindex of the llms.txt