Ref uses MCP to build documentation search that minimizes token use

Hi! I'm the developer of Ref (https://ref.tools), the MCP server for giving coding agents access to public and private docs. Ref's goal is to provide exactly the tokens you need to guide the model and nothing else.

I've been working on this one MCP server for about 6 months and I wanted to share the ways I've used and considered using different MCP features. If you're new to MCP, I hope this article can give you a sense of how developers can leverage MCP in practice.

Repo: https://github.com/ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp

And because I get asked this ALL the time : how is Ref different from Context7? - Ref uses on avg 55% fewer tokens with the same or better accuracy (eval blog post: https://ref.tools/blog/how-make-search-good) - Ref allows indexing your own private github repos and pdfs - Ref is a paid product with 200 free searches to start

I appreciate you taking a look!