Company
Date Published
Author
Logan Markewich
Word count
967
Language
English
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None

Summary

LlamaIndex has introduced native MCP search capabilities for its documentation, enabling coding agents to access search tools directly across all documentation. The platform offers three main tools: search_docs for basic lexical searches using BM25, grep_docs for exact searches using regex, and read_doc for reading entire page contents. The documentation is hosted on a dynamically generated Astro and Starlight website, deployed on Vercel, which provides functions for creating MCP endpoints. Despite challenges in implementing the search_docs function due to missing index files on Vercel, the team opted for a BM25 search, which, although less accurate than vector search, is lightweight and efficient for LLMs and agents. The tools aim to enhance the usability of the documentation by integrating with various platforms and frameworks, and the team is open to feedback for further improvements.