Context7 is a system that aims to inject fresh, version-specific documentation and code snippets into language model prompts, thereby avoiding reliance on outdated training data or hallucinated APIs. It’s designed to integrate with tools that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP), such as Cursor, Windsurf, and other LLM clients. When a user writes a prompt and appends something like “use context7,” the system detects the libraries or frameworks being asked about, fetches the latest docs/snippets from the source repositories, filters and packages relevant context, and injects them into the LLM’s prompt to guide it toward accurate, up-to-date code. The upstream codebase provides an MCP server implementation, enabling clients to easily interface with the Context7 service over standard channels (HTTP, stdio) and treat it as an external “knowledge tool.”
Features
- Automatic library detection in prompts
- Filtering and relevance ranking of documentation snippets
- Version-aware code snippet injection
- MCP server interface (HTTP / stdio transport)
- API key / rate limiting / billing layer
- Support for private or closed-source project documentation