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Retrieve current reference material into a coding agent's context
Done means: A coding agent works from the current, version-correct documentation, API specification or source of the libraries and repositories it touches, fetched on demand while it works, instead of from what its model remembers.
The job is retrieval, not authorship: a solution claiming it fetches reference material that someone else wrote or generated (library docs, an OpenAPI document, a repository's own files or a generated wiki of them) and returns the relevant passages, pinned to the version in use, inside the agent's turn. It differs from eng.write-documentation, which produces documentation from a codebase, and from it.answer-internal-knowledge-questions, which answers people from a company's private knowledge. Typical shapes: a hosted MCP server a coding agent calls, a REST API keyed by library and version, a CLI that pastes passages into a prompt.
- Measures
- passages returned match the version in use; API misuse and invented-API errors after retrieval; reference calls answered within the agent's turn
- Also called
- documentation retrieval, docs MCP, library docs for coding agents, code context retrieval, repository question answering
- Related
- eng.write-documentation eng.implement-scoped-changes it.answer-internal-knowledge-questions
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| Solution | In its words | Strongest evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Context7 tool | Up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples for software libraries, delivered into the prompts of AI coding agents through a REST API, a hosted MCP server and a CLI, addressed as /{org}/{project} with an optional version tag. (source) | the claim only |
| DeepWiki tool | A free, remote MCP server that lists a public GitHub repository's documentation topics, returns its generated documentation and answers questions about it (Ask Devin). (source) | the claim only |
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