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context7 shipped an update

Context7, an open-source TypeScript project with 63,000 GitHub stars, delivers up-to-date, version-specific library documentation and code examples directly into LLM and AI code editor context via MCP, and was last updated in October 2026. The ctx7 CLI requires Node.js 18 or newer and is installed with the single command "npx ctx7 setup". Context7 positions itself against 165 alternatives, including MCP Reference Servers at 91,000 stars, chrome-devtools-mcp at 53,000, Playwright MCP at 38,000, github-mcp-server at 33,000, and blender-mcp at 30,000.

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context7 shipped an update
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Context7 Platform -- Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors

Giving coding agents up-to-date library documentation via MCP.

Your stack is niche enough that its docs are not covered.

About context7 #

Context7 pulls up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples straight from the source — and places them directly into your prompt.

Context7 fetches up-to-date code examples and documentation right into your LLM's context. No tab-switching, no hallucinated APIs that don't exist, no outdated code generation.

Set up Context7 for your coding agents with a single command. The ctx7 CLI requires Node.js 18 or newer.

context7 is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 63k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in October 2026.

npx ctx7 setup

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context7 vs. the alternatives #

All 165 alternatives →

Record Stars Pricing
context7this listing 63k TypeScript MIT Open source
MCP Reference Servers 91k TypeScript MIT AND Apache-2.0 Open source
chrome-devtools-mcp 53k TypeScript Apache-2.0 Open source
Playwright MCP 38k TypeScript Apache-2.0 Open source
github-mcp-server 33k Go MIT Open source
MCP for Blender (blender-mcp) 30k Python MIT Open source
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