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PageIndex MCP

PageIndex MCP is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Reasoning-based RAG system for chatting with long PDFs. It has 399 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @pageindex/mcp.

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Install PageIndex MCP

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pageindex-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pageindex/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio pageindex-mcp -- npx -y @pageindex/mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pageindex-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pageindex/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "pageindex-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pageindex/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About PageIndex MCP

If you find this repo useful, please also star our main PageIndex repo ⭐ 📘 PageIndex is a vectorless, reasoning-based RAG system that represents documents as hierarchical tree structures. It enables LLMs to navigate and retrieve information through structure and reasoning, not vector similarity — much like a human would retrieve information using a book's index.

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What is PageIndex MCP?

PageIndex MCP is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Reasoning-based RAG system for chatting with long PDFs. It has 399 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @pageindex/mcp. The source code is at github.com/VectifyAI/pageindex-mcp.

How do I install the PageIndex MCP MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @pageindex/mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is PageIndex MCP free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is PageIndex MCP actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Jul 25, 2026. The latest release is v1.8.2, published Jul 25, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.