Bookworm
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Bookworm is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides LLMs with local access to Rust crate documentation from docs.rs. It downloads, indexes, and serves crate documentation, items, metadata, and source code via a set of MCP tools.
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- Download and cache crate documentation locally.
- Index documentation into a SQLite database for fast queries.
- Query documentation by crate name, version, or item path.
- Expose MCP tools: crates_search, crate_search_items, crate_resource.
- Support for fetching crate metadata, readmes, items, and source code.
Install and run via Cargo: cargo run --bin wrm-mcp. Configure your MCP client (e.g., Claude.ai) with a JSON entry pointing to the wrm-mcp binary. Once the server is running, an LLM can use the provided tools to search crates, browse items, and fetch resources.
Bookworm
A collection of tools to work with docs.rs documentation.
Crates
wrm_dl
Download the documentation for a crate from docs.rs and store
it in a local directory.
It comes both as a library and a binary, you can run it locally using:
cargo run --bin wrm-dl --features cli -- regex
Documentation downloaded successfully to /tmp/...
wrm_index
Index locally stored crate documentation into a SQLite database.
It comes both as a library and a binary, you can run it locally using:
cargo run --bin wrm-index --features cli -- /tmp/...
Documentation indexed successfully to ./index.sqlite
wrm_query
Query the documentation for a crate, using a locally stored version of the crate
documentation, and the index database.
wrm_docs
Fetch details from locally cached docs.rs documentation.
wrm_mcp
A [model context protocol][mcp] server to serve the documentation for a crate.
Run it locally using:
cargo run --bin wrm-mcp
Adding the server to your MCP client depends on the client, but the following
example works for Claude.ai:
{
"mcpServers": {
"bookworm": {
"command": "/path/to/wrm-mcp"
}
}
}
Tools
The following tools are available to an LLM with MCP client capabilities:
crates_search
Get a list of crates matching the given query.
The returned list contains a list of URIs for each crate to fetch additional
crate information.
crate_search_items
Get a list of items matching the given query.
Each item type contains the following information:
- Item Path (e.g. serde_json::value::Value)
- Item Type (e.g. enum)
- Type Signature
- Documentation
- Related Resource URIs
crate_search_src (TODO)
Search all the crate's source code for a given query.
Each item contains the URI of the source code file, the line number, and the
contents of the matched line, including any optional context surrounding the
match.
crate_resource
Once you find a crate (or know the crate name), you can fetch relevant resources
through the crate_resource tool. This tool takes a URI to the resource.
The following URIs are supported:
- crate://{crate_name} - list crate versions
- crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version} - get metadata
- crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/readme - get readme content
- crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/items - list item resources
- crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/src - list source code resources
- crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/{path} - get item/src resource
crate://{crate_name} - list crate versions
Returns a list of crate versions for the given crate name.
Each item in the list contains the following information:
- Version
- Release Date
- MSRV
- Downloads
- Publisher
crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version} - get crate metadata
The following metadata is returned:
- Name
- Version
- Release Date
- Description
- Homepage
- Repository
- License
- URIs:
- Readme (e.g. crate://serde_json/1.0.85/readme)
- Crate Item (e.g. crate://serde_json/1.0.85/items)
- Source code (e.g. crate://serde_json/1.0.85/src)
crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/readme - get crate readme
Returns the crate README as a string, formatted as Markdown.
crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/items - list crate items
Returns a list of items for the given crate version.
An item is a component of a crate. There are several kinds of items:
- Modules
- Function definitions
- Type definitions
- Struct definitions
- Enumeration definitions
- Trait definitions
- Implementations
Use search_crate_items to search for specific items.
crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/src - list crate source code resources
Returns a list of source code resources for the given crate version.
For Example:
<Resources>
<Resource uri="crate://serde_json/1.0.85/src/serde_json/lib.rs" />
<Resource uri="crate://serde_json/1.0.85/src/serde_json/value.rs" />
<Resource uri="crate://serde_json/1.0.85/src/serde_json/map.rs" />
<Resource uri="crate://serde_json/1.0.85/src/serde_json/value/mod.rs" />
...
</Resources>
Use search_crate_src to search all the crate's source code.
crate://{crate_name}/{crate_version}/{crate_resource_path} - get crate resource
Returns the content of the resource at the given path.
Url Templating
- {crate_name} is the exact name of the crate.
- {crate_version} is either a (partial) semver compatible version number, or
latest for the latest published crate version.
[mcp]: https://github.com/jean-airoldi/model-context-protocol
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