Docs Manage

Documents

docs-manage

Docs Manage is an Agent Skill for documents published in the arabold/docs-mcp-server repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Manage the Grounded Docs MCP Server documentation index. Covers scraping and indexing documentation from URLs or local files, refreshing existing indexes with changed content, and removing libraries from the index. Use when you need to add, update, or delete indexed documentation.

View on GitHub ↗

QUICK START

How to use this skill

Bring this guide into your coding agent with a prompt tailored to the tool you use.

Open your project in Codex.
Copy and paste the prompt below.
Review files and risks before approving any action.

Prompt to paste

Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/arabold/docs-mcp-server/blob/HEAD/skills/docs-manage/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/docs-manage, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

Copying this prompt does not install or run the skill. Review third-party files before use.

Docs Manage

Index, refresh, and remove library documentation in the local Grounded Docs store. These commands modify the index and produce plain-text status messages on stdout.

When to use

A library is not yet indexed and you need its docs available for search.
Documentation may be stale and you want to pull in updated pages.
You want to remove a library or version from the index to free space.

Commands

scrape

Download and index documentation from a URL or local directory.

npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape <library> <url> [options]

Flag	Alias	Default	Description
`--version <ver>`	`-v`		Library version label
`--max-pages <n>`	`-p`	config default	Maximum pages to scrape
`--max-depth <n>`	`-d`	config default	Maximum navigation depth
`--max-concurrency <n>`	`-c`	config default	Concurrent page requests
`--ignore-errors`		`true`	Continue on individual page errors
`--scope subpages\|hostname\|domain`		`subpages`	Crawling boundary
`--follow-redirects`		`true`	Follow HTTP redirects
`--no-follow-redirects`			Disable following redirects
`--scrape-mode auto\|fetch\|playwright`		`auto`	HTML processing strategy
`--include-pattern <glob>`			URL include pattern (repeatable)
`--exclude-pattern <glob>`			URL exclude pattern (repeatable, takes precedence)
`--header "Name: Value"`			Custom HTTP header (repeatable)
`--embedding-model <model>`			Embedding model configuration
`--server-url <url>`			Remote pipeline worker URL
`--clean`		`true`	Clear existing documents before scraping
`--quiet`			Suppress non-error diagnostics
`--verbose`			Enable debug logging

Examples:

# Scrape React docs, version-tagged
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape react https://react.dev/reference/react --version 19.0.0

# Scrape local files
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape mylib file:///Users/me/docs/my-library

# Scrape with depth and page limits
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape nextjs https://nextjs.org/docs --max-pages 200 --max-depth 3

# Scrape with custom headers (e.g. authentication)
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape internal-api https://docs.internal.com \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer tok_xxx"

# Exclude changelog pages
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape react https://react.dev/reference/react \
  --exclude-pattern "**/changelog*"

Output is a plain-text status line, e.g. Successfully scraped 42 pages. Progress updates appear on stderr during the run.

refresh

Re-scrape an existing library version, skipping unchanged pages via HTTP ETags.

npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest refresh <library> [options]

Flag	Alias	Description
`--version <ver>`	`-v`	Version to refresh (omit for latest)
`--embedding-model <model>`		Embedding model configuration
`--server-url <url>`		Remote pipeline worker URL
`--quiet`		Suppress non-error diagnostics
`--verbose`		Enable debug logging

Example:

npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest refresh react --version 19.0.0

The library and version must already be indexed. Use scrape for first-time indexing.

remove

Delete a library (or a specific version) from the index.

npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest remove <library> [options]

Flag	Alias	Description
`--version <ver>`	`-v`	Specific version to remove (omit to remove latest)
`--server-url <url>`		Remote pipeline worker URL
`--quiet`		Suppress non-error diagnostics
`--verbose`		Enable debug logging

Example:

npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest remove react --version 18.3.1

This is destructive and cannot be undone. Re-run scrape to re-index.

Output behaviour

All three commands write plain-text status messages to stdout and diagnostics to stderr. The global --output flag is accepted but has no effect because the output is plain text, not structured data.

In non-interactive sessions, diagnostics are suppressed by default. Use --verbose (or set LOG_LEVEL=INFO) to re-enable them. Use --quiet to suppress all non-error diagnostics regardless of session type.

Typical workflow

# 1. Index documentation for the first time
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest scrape react https://react.dev/reference/react --version 19.0.0

# 2. Later, refresh to pick up any changes
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest refresh react --version 19.0.0

# 3. Clean up old versions
npx @arabold/docs-mcp-server@latest remove react --version 18.3.1

Important notes

Scraping can take time. Large documentation sites with hundreds of pages may run for several minutes. Use --max-pages and --max-depth to limit scope when you only need a subset.
Local files must use the file:// URL scheme (e.g. file:///absolute/path/to/docs).
--clean is on by default for scrape, meaning existing documents for the same library+version are removed before re-indexing. Pass --no-clean to append instead.
refresh only works on previously indexed content. It uses HTTP ETags to skip pages that have not changed, making it much faster than a full re-scrape.