I just pushed v0.3.0 with a few minor improvements:
--project flag to the mix cli to make it possible to fetch all package docs from a given mix.exs. I’m considering adding it to the MCP server but it’s so slow that the experience via MCP fetch is pretty bad for large projects.
Thank you for your work on this.
Stupid question - I have added hexdocs-mcp to my claude desktop client. It shows as running in Cluade. How do I get Claude to actually pull information from a library using hexdocs-mcp. Right now is does a web search if I ask it about a specific phoenix library
There is a tooling guide for claude code cli, I read it yesterday. You need to add the mcp to the cli tool as well.
Hey great question! I don’t use the Claude desktop app, so I’m not sure if this issue is specific to that. When I use Claude for code, I often prompt it with “look it up on Hexdocs” if the model keeps reverting to web search. That usually does the trick. LMK if that works for you or not!
thanks for the quick response.
Using “fetch documentation for ash authentication in hexdocs” got it going.
I had an error after that and i did have a question as to whether I need to install Ollama locally (or the tool download did that)
Yes, unfortunately, you do need to install Ollama locally. I’m planning to migrate the whole project to Bumblebee eventually which would eliminate the need for an external dependency, but I’ve run into issues getting it to work on my Mac and I’m hesitant to switch since I’m not confident it’s fully cross-platform compatible yet. If anyone has any experience here some guidance would be much appreciated.
That isn’t a problem! I will do that and report any learnings I have on the way if it is helpul. Thanks again!
I installed Ollama, ran ollama pull nomic-embed-text then ollama serve and everything worked fine!
I just skimmed the code, but ollama is primarily making embeddings right? What model are you using? I wasnt able to easily find it using github on my phone
Correct, ollama is making the embeddings. Right now the default model is nomic-embed-text.
