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shinpr/mcp-local-rag

MIT

📇 🏠 - Privacy-first document search server running entirely locally. Supports semantic search over PDFs, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown files with LanceDB vector storage and local embeddings - no API keys

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Install

npx -y -y mcp-local-rag

claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shinpr-mcp-local-rag": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "-y",
        "mcp-local-rag"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add this to your Claude Desktop config file. Find it at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS.

What this does

shinpr/mcp-local-rag exposes a set of tools to Claude over the Model Context Protocol. After you add it to claude_desktop_config.json (snippet above) and restart Claude Desktop, those tools become callable inside any conversation. That makes it useful when you want Claude to reach into search engines and knowledge bases without copy-pasting context every turn.

Common use cases

  • Search the open web, internal docs, or a vector store from inside a Claude session
  • Bring fresh information past Claude's training cutoff into context
  • Run multi-source research without copy-pasting URLs and snippets