MCP Server Ietf

🚀 MCP-Server-IETF

An implementation of the Model Context Protocol server that provides access to IETF documents (RFCs) for large language models.

🚀 Quick Start

This project implements a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that offers access to IETF RFC documents. It enables large language models to obtain RFC specifications through a standardized interface.

✨ Features

• Download and cache RFC indexes and documents.
• Search for RFCs based on keywords in the title.
• Provide access to RFC documents with pagination support.
• Extract metadata such as page count information.

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11 or higher.
• Dependencies listed in pyproject.toml.

Install from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/tizee/mcp-server-ietf
cd mcp-server-ietf

# Install using pip
pip install -e .

💻 Usage Examples

Start the Server

# Start the server
mcp-server-ietf

Or use the MCP inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run mcp-server-ietf

Available Tools

After connecting to the server, the following tools are available:

list_docs_number

Get the total number of available RFC documents in the index.

get_doc

Retrieve an RFC document by its number, with pagination support.

Parameters:

• number: The RFC number (e.g., "1234").
• start_line: The starting line number (default: 1).
• max_lines: The maximum number of lines to return (default: 200).

search_rfc_by_keyword

Search for RFC documents based on keywords in the title.

Parameters:

• keyword: The search term to look for in the RFC title.

🔧 Technical Details

Set up the Development Environment

# Install development dependencies
uv install -e .[dev]

Use the Makefile to run the inspector:

make dev

Run Tests

# Run tests
uv run pytest

Or use the Makefile:

make test

Cache Location

By default, the server caches RFC documents and indexes to ~/.cache/ietf-doc-server.

Environment Variables

• LOG_LEVEL: Set the logging level (default: "DEBUG").

📄 License

This project is under the MIT License. For more details, see the LICENSE file.

💪 Contribution

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit a Pull Request.