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Bookworm is a collection of tools designed to work with documentation from docs.rs. It provides functionalities to download, index, query, and serve crate documentation, including a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

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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 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.