mcp-rustdoc-parser

📚 MCP Rust Documentation Parser Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that parses Rust project documentation and extracts detailed information about requested items, communicating over stdio transport.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Parse Rust Documentation: Generate markdown documentation from Rust libraries
• 🧩 Extract Item Details: Find and extract specific items (functions, structs, enums) from the documentation
• 🔄 Stdio Transport: Simple and efficient communication using standard input/output
• 🛠️ MCP Compatible: Fully compliant with the Model Context Protocol specification
• 📊 Async Processing: Built with Tokio for efficient asynchronous operations

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust and Cargo (latest stable version)
• For documentation generation: rustdoc-json and rustdoc-md tools

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/mcp-rs.git
cd mcp-rs

2. Build the project:

cargo build

🔧 Usage

Running the Server

cargo run --bin doc_parser_server

Testing with MCP Inspector

The server can be tested using the MCP Inspector tool:

# Install and run the MCP Inspector
RUST_LOG=debug npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector cargo run --bin doc_parser_server

# In another terminal, run the server
cargo run --bin doc_parser_server

Then open the Inspector at http://localhost:6274 and connect to your server using:

• Transport Type: STDIO
• Command: cargo
• Arguments: run --bin doc_parser_server

API

The server exposes the following MCP tool:

parse_docs

Parses Rust project documentation and extracts information about a specific item.

Parameters:

• project_path: Path to the Rust project
• library: Name of the library to parse
• item: Name of the item to find (function, struct, enum, etc.)

Returns:

• Detailed information about the requested item, including documentation, signature, and other metadata

🏗️ Architecture

The server is built with the following components:

• doc_parser_server.rs: Main server implementation with MCP protocol handling
• doc_generator.rs: Generates markdown documentation from Rust projects
• doc_item_finder.rs: Extracts specific items from the generated documentation

📦 Dependencies

• rmcp: Rust implementation of the MCP protocol
• tokio: Asynchronous runtime
• tracing: Logging and diagnostics
• serde and serde_json: JSON serialization/deserialization
• regex: Pattern matching for documentation parsing
• anyhow and thiserror: Error handling

🧪 Testing

Manual Testing

1. Start the server:

cargo run --bin doc_parser_server

2. Use MCP Inspector to send requests and view responses:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector cargo run --bin doc_parser_server

3. Open http://localhost:6274 and use the Tools tab to test the parse_docs tool

Automated Testing

Run the test suite:

cargo test

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Model Context Protocol for the protocol specification
• Rust MCP SDK for the Rust implementation of the MCP protocol