# doc-index-mcp

> MCP server for semantic document search with boundary-aware chunking

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/doc-index-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.2.0
- license: MIT License
        
        Copyright (c) 2026 Mike
        
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- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:doc-index-mcp

### Description (declared)

# Doc Index MCP

## What is This For?

A local-first semantic search server for your documents. Index PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoints, Excel files, and text/markdown, then search them using natural language via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

- **Semantic search** - Find relevant content using natural language queries
- **Boundary-aware chunking** - Respects document structure (chapters, sections, headers)
- **Table extraction** - Extract tables from documents as CSV
- **Fully local** - No external APIs, no cloud services, no Docker containers, no PyTorch
- **Lightweight** - ONNX-based embeddings (~50MB vs ~2GB for PyTorch)

## Quick Start

### 1. Add to your MCP config

Requires [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/). If you don't have uv, see [Alternative Installation](#alternative-installation) below.

Add to `.mcp.json` in your project root (for Claude Code) or your Claude Desktop config:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "doc-index": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["doc-index-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

### 2. Install the skill (optional)

The skill teaches the agent how to use the search tools effectively (token budgets, boundary expansion, structure-first retrieval):

```bash
uvx --from doc-index-mcp doc-index-install-skill
```

That's it — start asking Claude to index and search your documents.

<details>
<summary>Other agents</summary>

**Hermes Agent** reads skills from `~/.hermes/skills/<category>/` rather than per-project, and configures MCP servers in `~/.hermes/config.yaml`:

```bash
uvx --from doc-index-mcp doc-index-install-skill --target hermes
```

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  doc-index:
    command: uvx
    args:
      - doc-index-mcp
```

The installer honours `HERMES_HOME`, so non-default profiles install to the right place. Restart the Hermes session afterwards so the skill is picked up.

</details>

## Supported Formats

| Format | Extensions | Notes |
|--------|------------|-------|
| Text | `.txt` | Plain text |
| Markdo…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (0.894, derived)
- documents.spreadsheets (0.733, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/doc-index-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T14:31:56.874Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/doc-index-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/doc-index-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:doc-index-mcp