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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ref-tools-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "REF_API_KEY": "${REF_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add ref-tools-mcp -e "REF_API_KEY=${REF_API_KEY}" -- npx -y [email protected]

[mcp_servers.ref-tools-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "[email protected]"]
env = { "REF_API_KEY" = "${REF_API_KEY}" }

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ref-tools-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "enabled": true,
      "environment": {
        "REF_API_KEY": "{env:REF_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ref-tools-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "REF_API_KEY": "${REF_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  },
  "deeplink": "cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=ref-tools-mcp&config=eyJjb21tYW5kIjoibnB4IiwiYXJncyI6WyIteSIsInJlZi10b29scy1tY3BAMy4wLjEiXSwiZW52Ijp7IlJFRl9BUElfS0VZIjoiJHtSRUZfQVBJX0tFWX0ifX0%3D"
}

{
  "servers": {
    "ref-tools-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "REF_API_KEY": "${REF_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ref-tools-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "REF_API_KEY": "${REF_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

extensions:
  "ref-tools-mcp":
    enabled: true
    name: "ref-tools-mcp"
    type: stdio
    cmd: "npx"
    args:
      - "-y"
      - "[email protected]"
    envs:
      "REF_API_KEY": "${REF_API_KEY}"
    timeout: 300

Placeholders to fill from your own secret store: ${REF_API_KEY}. The registry never accepts secret values.

This is a local package: the command runs on your machine.

Quality – / 100not scored

Not scored: fewer than three checks apply, usually because no remote answered a credential-free probe or the server is a local package.

protocoln/a · weight 25

n/a
protocol.modern, protocol.stateless, protocol.transport, protocol.list_ttlno remote answered a protocol handshake (not probed yet, unreachable, or local-only)

authorizationn/a · weight 15

n/a
auth.prm, auth.as_metadata, auth.cimdno remote uses OAuth
n/a
auth.secret_in_urlno templated URL

tool hygienen/a · weight 30

n/a
tools.descriptions, tools.description_length, tools.schemas, tools.annotations, tools.directory_hints, tools.token_cost, tools.api_dumptool list unknown (behind auth, not probed, or empty)

stabilityn/a · weight 15

n/a
stability.changes, stability.rug_pulltool list unknown

dependencies33 · weight 15

fail
deps.known_vulns2 advisories to act on (malicious, or rated high or critical with a fix available): GHSA-pqg4-j6r4-53mv in [email protected] (indirect, fixed in 1.11.0), GHSA-pqg4-j6r4-53mv in [email protected] (indirect, fixed in 1.11.0)
fail
deps.mcp_sdk_version@modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.30.1 has 1 known advisory (GHSA-6qxp-vccf-f47h); update @modelcontextprotocol/sdk to 1.31.0 or later
pass
deps.resolvable[email protected] resolved: 256 packages

Tool list unknown · checked 2026-10-20 11:40 UTC

Tool changes

No tool definition changes recorded. A server's first observation is its baseline; later probes record what changes.

Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed. How it is computed.

Trust 64 / 100

duplicate-repo

provenance80

livenessn/a

freshness25

hygiene80

+repository +namespace-matches-repo ~liveness-unmeasured -stale-406d -duplicate-repo(3 names)

Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed. How it is computed.

Dependencies

[email protected] npm255 dependencies, resolved · MCP SDK @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.30.1 · advisories checked 2026-10-19

advisory	severity	package	fixed in
GHSA-pqg4-j6r4-53mvshell-quote: `quote()` command injection via a line terminator in a token after a `{ comment }` token	critical	`[email protected]`indirect	fixed in `1.11.0`
GHSA-pqg4-j6r4-53mvshell-quote: `quote()` command injection via a line terminator in a token after a `{ comment }` token	critical	`[email protected]`indirect	fixed in `1.11.0`
GHSA-6qxp-vccf-f47hMCP TypeScript SDK: OAuth client could send credentials to an authorization server chosen by the MCP server	high	`@modelcontextprotocol/[email protected]`MCP SDK, direct	fixed in `1.31.0`

Dependency graphs from deps.dev; advisories from OSV.dev, including the GitHub Advisory Database and the PyPI Advisory Database; all CC BY 4.0. The graph is what a clean install of this version resolves today; nothing was installed or run. How it is checked.

Endpoints

package	registry	version	runtime	secrets
`ref-tools-mcp`	npm	3.0.1	–	`REF_API_KEY`

Tools (0)

No tools observed. Local packages are never executed by the registry.

Schemas: list_tools.

Also listed as

2 other active names share this repository: ai.smithery/ref-tools-ref-tools-mcp, tools.ref/ref-tools-mcp

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Official server.json

{
  "name": "io.github.ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp",
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-09-29/server.schema.json",
  "version": "3.0.1",
  "packages": [
    {
      "version": "3.0.1",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
      "identifier": "ref-tools-mcp",
      "registryType": "npm",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "name": "REF_API_KEY",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "isRequired": true,
          "description": "Your API key for Ref"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "description": "Token efficient search for coding agents over public and private documentation."
}