ai.smithery/ref-tools-ref-tools-mcp

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Helping coding agents never make mistakes working with public or private libraries without wasting the context window.

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About ai.smithery/ref-tools-ref-tools-mcp

A ModelContextProtocol server that gives your AI coding tool or agent access to documentation for APIs, services, libraries etc. It's your one-stop-shop to keep your agent up-to-date on documentation in a fast and token-efficient way. Ref's tools are designed to match how models search while using as little context as possible to reduce context rot. The goal is to find exactly the context your coding agent needs to be successful while using minimum tokens. Depending on the complexity of the prompt, LLM coding agents like Claude Code will…

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