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The doc reader mirrors the mcp-doc-reader template covered in Working with MCP. It ingests documentation, markdown files, or knowledge base articles so agents can answer questions with citations—without the need to deploy your own MCP server.

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Use cases

  • Onboarding FAQs for internal teams
  • API reference lookups
  • Troubleshooting guides with step-by-step instructions

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Example prompt

Summarize the deployment steps from our Heroku onboarding guide.

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Best practices

  • Keep documents scoped to a topic to improve accuracy.
  • Update the stored content regularly to avoid stale answers.
  • Combine with code execution or SQL tools to produce actionable responses.
  • When you need more control over parsing (HTML, PDF, etc.), fork the mcp-doc-reader template and deploy it as a dedicated MCP server.