MCP server

Manpage MCP Official

ai.manpage/mcp

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Search and read Linux manual pages with version-aware lookup and exact package provenance.

Website

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

manpage.ai (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

3

Token cost

About 1,193 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http manpage https://manpage.ai/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.manpage]
url = "https://manpage.ai/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"manpage":{"httpUrl":"https://manpage.ai/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"manpage":{"url":"https://manpage.ai/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"manpage":{"type":"http","url":"https://manpage.ai/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add manpage https://manpage.ai/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"manpage","server_url":"https://manpage.ai/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"manpage","server_url":"https://manpage.ai/mcp"}

Tools

• get_manual ~535 tokens
  Get full manual text by name, e.g. manual_name="ls"; no package needed. manual_name is the command name (also matches aliases); package is an optional filter. Tries exact casing first, then a case-insensitive name/alias match. Search API selects latest indexed packages per scope, preferring Fedora
• get_targets ~84 tokens
  List indexed distribution/release/repository/architecture scopes and counts. Use the returned values verbatim; targets such as CentOS 8, EPEL 9 or Fedora 43 are available only if they have been indexed.
• search ~574 tokens
  Search manual text/metadata; return ranked hits, snippets and exact identities. Latest indexed package versions are used unless package_version is supplied. Omitted scope filters include all indexed distributions and releases. Supply query for relevance-ranked text search, or manual_name without qu

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