Check out tidewave. Maybe it has everything you need!
The docs search is still a remote search rather than local only though and I’m not sure how good it is yet in terms of search but the product itself is way more feature complete.
bradley
dmitriid
dmitriid
For those interested, Tidewave works:
- follow the installation instructions
- if you’re running in wsl, install mcp_proxy (see docs, the python one worked for me) on windows, not in wsl
- add MCP server to your editor (e.g. Cursor)
"tidewave-phoenix": { "command": "mcp-proxy", "args": [ "http://localhost:4000/tidewave/mcp" ] }
Enjoy.
Here’s a simple rules file I now have in my Cursor that is always loaded:
# Ash Resources and Documentation
- Always use the eval tool to list or introspect Ash resources.
- When documentation about the Ash framework or its features is requested, use package_docs_search to retrieve relevant HexDocs.
And it works:
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stryderjzw
I’m using Claude with Cline.
It seems to always write MyResource.read() instead of Resource |> Ash.read(). 
Anyone see any weird quirks and got rules to solve them?
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zachdaniel
Creator of Ash
Are you using usage_rules v1.2.6 — Documentation ? See our guide for more: Working with LLMs — ash v3.29.3
EDIT: note that Claude 4 massively outperforms Claude 3.7 for Ash related stuff even on zero context one-shots.
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stryderjzw
Thanks! Actually, after I posted, I saw your blog post.
I’ll tweak my environment and see if I can get better results with your tips. AI’s a great tool for developers and just something we’re all gonna have to learn to use to be better programmers.
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