CometChat Docs MCP Server
io.github.cometchat/docs-mcp
Search CometChat docs and get implementation bundles to add chat, voice, video & moderation to your app via AI agents.
What is the CometChat Docs MCP server?
The CometChat Docs MCP server provides AI agents like Claude and Cursor access to CometChat's documentation and curated implementation bundles for integrating real-time chat, voice, video, and moderation features. It requires no authentication and serves read-only access to public docs, SDKs guides, UI Kit references, and REST API documentation.
This server lets you prompt an AI agent to integrate CometChat's communications platform into your app. Ask natural-language questions like "add a chat tab where users can DM each other" and the agent reads CometChat's docs, selects the right components for your stack (React, React Native, iOS, Android, Flutter, etc.), and writes working integration code. It includes curated implementation bundles for common scenarios (quickstarts, multi-tenant chat, moderation, presence indicators) and a full-text search tool across SDKs, UI Kits, and REST API docs.
How to install CometChat Docs
Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.
Tools & capabilities
Tools this server exposes to the agent.
search_cometchat_docs— Search across SDK guides, UI Kit references, REST API documentation, and OpenAPI specs. Returns ranked snippets with titles and direct links. Supports optional version filtering.fetch_cometchat_doc_page— Fetch the full content of any documentation page as markdown by URL or relative path.get_cometchat_implementation_bundle— Return a curated implementation bundle for a named scenario with prerequisites, install commands, configuration, and working code.list_cometchat_bundles— List all available implementation bundles with identifier, title, framework, and last-verified date for discovery.
Use cases
- Add a real-time chat interface to a React or React Native app using the UI Kit quickstart bundle
- Set up multi-tenant chat isolation for a SaaS platform with server-issued Auth Tokens
- Implement content moderation with AI rules and image scanning before message delivery
- Add presence indicators, typing dots, and read receipts to a conversation list
- Embed a no-code chat widget on a static HTML, Webflow, Squarespace, or WordPress site
CometChat Docs MCP server FAQ
It's a read-only MCP server that gives AI agents access to CometChat's documentation and implementation bundles. You can ask an agent to integrate chat, voice, video, or moderation into your app, and it reads the docs and writes the code.
No. The server is read-only and requires no authentication. However, to actually deploy the code the agent writes, you'll need a free CometChat account (100 monthly active users free at app.cometchat.com) with an App ID, Auth Key, and Region.
In Claude Desktop: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL: https://mcp.cometchat.com/mcp. In Cursor: Cmd+Shift+P → Open MCP settings → Add custom MCP → paste the config with url: https://mcp.cometchat.com/mcp.
SDKs for JavaScript, React Native, iOS, Android, and Flutter. UI Kits for React, React Native, iOS (SwiftUI), Android (Jetpack Compose), Flutter, Angular, and Vue. Also a no-code widget for HTML, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, and Shopify.
Curated markdown recipes for common scenarios (React UI Kit quickstart, multi-tenant chat, moderation setup, presence indicators, etc.). Each includes prerequisites, install commands, configuration snippets, and working code examples ready to adapt to your project.
Yes. The MCP server itself is free and open-source (Apache-2.0). CometChat's free tier covers 100 monthly active users with no credit card required.
README (reference)
Source of truth, from the repository.
CometChat MCP Server
Add real-time chat, voice, video, and moderation to your app through your AI coding agent.
Docs • CometChat • Get an account (free, 100 MAU)
</div>CometChat's first-party MCP server. Connect Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot, Codex, or any other Model Context Protocol–compatible agent and integrate CometChat into your app from natural-language prompts.
Ask the agent: "add a chat tab where users can DM each other" — it reads CometChat's documentation, picks the right components for your stack, and writes the integration code.
Read-only. No account, no API key, no authentication required.
Demo

An AI agent reading CometChat's docs and writing a working chat integration from a single prompt.
Quick install
| Agent | How to add |
|---|---|
| Claude.ai / Claude Desktop | Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL: https://mcp.cometchat.com/mcp |
| Cursor | Cmd+Shift+P → Open MCP settings → Add custom MCP → paste config below |
| Windsurf | Plugins (hammer icon) → Manage plugins → View raw config → paste config below |
| VS Code (Copilot Agent) | Cmd+Shift+P → MCP: Add MCP Server → URL: https://mcp.cometchat.com/mcp, Transport: HTTP |
| Claude Code (CLI) | claude mcp add --transport http cometchat https://mcp.cometchat.com/mcp |
| Smithery | npx -y smithery mcp add cometchat/docs-mcp |
| Codex CLI | codex plugin marketplace add cometchat/docs-mcp |
Config snippet (Cursor / Windsurf / generic MCP clients)
{
"mcpServers": {
"cometchat": {
"url": "https://mcp.cometchat.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Usage
After connecting, prompt your agent with any of these:
- "How do I install the React UI Kit in my Vite project?"
- "Walk me through multi-tenant chat for a Next.js SaaS where workspaces are isolated."
- "Show me how to add presence indicators and typing dots to my iOS conversation list."
- "Set up content moderation so banned words are blocked before delivery."
- "Build a no-code chat widget for my Webflow site."
- "What's the rate limit for sending messages, and what error code do I get when I hit it?"
The agent reads CometChat's documentation, pulls the relevant implementation bundle, and writes the integration code into your project.
Tools
search_cometchat_docs— Search across SDK guides, UI Kit references, REST API documentation, and OpenAPI specs. Returns ranked snippets with titles + direct links. Optionalversionfilter.fetch_cometchat_doc_page— Fetch the full content of any documentation page as markdown by URL or relative path.get_cometchat_implementation_bundle— Return a curated implementation bundle for a named scenario — prerequisites, install commands, configuration, working code.list_cometchat_bundles— List every available implementation bundle (identifier, title, framework, last-verified date) for discovery.
All four carry readOnlyHint: true, a title annotation, and a declared outputSchema with structured results. Names are ≤ 64 characters. Descriptions describe contracts only — no behavioral instructions to the agent, no cross-tool routing, no marketing language.
Resources
| URI | Purpose |
|---|---|
cometchat://skills/overview | Agent orientation skill — Product summary, decision guidance, workflow, common gotchas, verification checklist |
cometchat://bundles/react-uikit-quickstart | React UI Kit install + init + login + chat surface |
cometchat://bundles/react-native-uikit-quickstart | React Native UI Kit with navigation and chat screen |
cometchat://bundles/flutter-uikit-quickstart | Flutter UI Kit install + init + basic chat |
cometchat://bundles/ios-uikit-quickstart | iOS UI Kit (SwiftUI) install + chat view |
cometchat://bundles/android-uikit-quickstart | Android UI Kit (Jetpack Compose) install + chat screen |
cometchat://bundles/js-sdk-messaging-basics | Vanilla JS SDK — send/receive text and media messages |
cometchat://bundles/widget-embed | No-code widget embed for HTML, Squarespace, Webflow, Wix, WordPress, Shopify |
cometchat://bundles/moderation-setup | AI moderation rules, image moderation, webhooks |
cometchat://bundles/multi-tenant-chat | Multi-tenant SaaS chat — tenant isolation, server-issued Auth Tokens |
cometchat://bundles/presence-and-typing | Online presence, typing indicators, read receipts |
How it works
- You prompt your agent in natural language.
- The agent reads the orientation skill (
cometchat://skills/overview) to understand which tool/bundle fits your request. - For top scenarios, the agent pulls a curated implementation bundle — ready-to-run code with prerequisites, install commands, configuration, and working examples.
- For long-tail questions, the agent searches CometChat's docs and reads specific reference pages.
- The agent writes the code into your project, using the bundle as the source of truth and your project structure as the constraint.
CometChat in 30 seconds
CometChat is a real-time communications platform for adding chat, voice, and video calling to web and mobile apps. Used in production across SaaS, marketplaces, gaming, healthcare, education, and creator platforms.
- Free tier: first 100 monthly active users, no credit card required.
- SDKs: JavaScript, React Native, iOS, Android, Flutter.
- UI Kits: React, React Native, iOS, Android, Flutter, Angular, Vue.
- No-code: chat widget for any HTML site.
- Sign up:
app.cometchat.com— you'll need an App ID, Auth Key, and Region to build with the code the agent writes.
Server identity
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Display name | CometChat Docs |
| Version | 0.1.6 |
| Protocol | MCP 2025-06-18 |
| Transport | Streamable HTTP (with SSE) |
| Authentication | None (public docs only) |
| Capabilities | tools, resources |
| Health endpoint | GET https://mcp.cometchat.com/health |
Architecture
Your agent (Claude / Cursor / Windsurf / …)
↓ MCP over Streamable HTTP
↓
mcp.cometchat.com/mcp (this server)
↓
├── search_cometchat_docs → SQLite FTS5 index of cometchat/docs
├── fetch_cometchat_doc_page → cometchat.com/docs/*.md (first-party)
└── get_cometchat_implementation_bundle → bundled markdown recipes
- Stateless server, single universal endpoint, no user-specific state.
- Search index rebuilds from
github.com/cometchat/docson every push to that repo'smainbranch. - Implementation bundles carry a
last_verifieddate and are re-checked against live SDK versions quarterly.
Local development
# Clone the docs repo (used to build the search index)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cometchat/docs.git ../cometchat-docs-repo
# Install + build the FTS index + run the server
npm install
DOCS_REPO=../cometchat-docs-repo npm run build:index
npm run dev
# Run the test suite (36 tests across validation, truncation, bundles, tools, resources, fetch)
npm test
The server listens on http://0.0.0.0:3000 by default. Health probe at GET /health, MCP endpoint at POST /mcp.
Inspect with the MCP Inspector
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
# add server: http://localhost:3000/mcp
You should see all 4 tools with readOnlyHint: true and all 11 resources.
Repo layout
docs-mcp/
├── src/
│ ├── server.ts # MCP server entry, transport, tool dispatch
│ ├── tools/{search,fetch,bundle}.ts
│ ├── search/sqlite.ts # SQLite FTS5 client
│ ├── bundles/loader.ts # markdown bundle store
│ ├── resources/registry.ts # skill + bundle resources
│ └── lib/{errors,truncate,validation,logger}.ts
├── scripts/build-index.ts # builds SQLite FTS5 index from cometchat/docs
├── bundles/ # 10 curated implementation bundles
├── skills/overview.md # agent orientation skill
├── tests/ # vitest suite
├── .claude-plugin/
│ ├── plugin.json # Claude Code plugin manifest
│ └── marketplace.json # Claude Code marketplace manifest
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json # Codex plugin manifest
├── .cursor-plugin/plugin.json # Cursor Marketplace manifest
├── .mcp.json # MCP config (Claude Code auto-discovery)
├── mcp.json # Open Plugins standard manifest
└── assets/logo.svg # CometChat logo
Configuration
| Env var | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
PORT | 3000 | HTTP port |
HOST | 0.0.0.0 | Bind host |
DOCS_BASE_URL | https://www.cometchat.com/docs | Used for URLs in responses + the .md fetch fallback |
INDEX_PATH | ./data/index.sqlite | SQLite FTS5 index location. Server still boots if missing; search returns backend_unavailable and /health is 503. |
BUNDLES_DIR | ./bundles | Markdown bundles directory |
SKILLS_DIR | ./skills | Orientation skill (overview.md) directory |
FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS | 5000 | Per-fetch HTTP timeout |
LOG_LEVEL | info | debug / info / warn / error |
NODE_ENV | development | production makes bundle loading strict — a malformed bundle aborts boot instead of being skipped |
ALLOWED_HOSTS | <HOST>:<PORT>,localhost:<PORT>,127.0.0.1:<PORT> | Comma-separated Host header allowlist for DNS-rebinding protection |
ALLOWED_ORIGINS | unset | Comma-separated browser Origin allowlist for /mcp. Unset allows none: a request with an Origin gets 403. Clients that send no Origin (IDEs, CLIs, hosted connectors) are unaffected |
DNS_REBINDING_PROTECTION | true | Set false only if an upstream already validates Host |
RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED | true | Set false to disable per-IP rate limiting on /mcp. Exactly true or false; other values fail startup |
RATE_LIMIT_MAX | 120 | Max requests per window per IP. Positive integer; 0 fails startup (disable with RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED=false) |
RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_MS | 60000 | Rate-limit window in ms. Positive integer |
INDEX_AUTO_REFRESH | false | Set true to rebuild the search index in-container when cometchat/docs changes. Requires git in the image and a writable INDEX_WORK_DIR. |
INDEX_POLL_INTERVAL_MS | 600000 | How often to check the docs repo for a new commit (a git ls-remote, ~1s) |
INDEX_WORK_DIR | ./data/generations | Where rebuilt index generations are written (tmpfs in production) |
INDEX_KEEP_GENERATIONS | 2 | Previous index generations retained on disk for instant fallback |
INDEX_MIN_PAGES | 2000 | Absolute floor: a candidate index with fewer pages is rejected |
INDEX_MAX_DROP_RATIO | 0.2 | Relative floor: reject a candidate losing more than this fraction of the served page count, or of the served pages whose versions come from docs.json navigation |
DOCS_REPO_URL | https://github.com/cometchat/docs.git | Public docs repo; cloned anonymously, no credentials |
DOCS_REF | main | Branch to follow |
DOCS_COMMIT_PIN | unset | Freeze on one commit and stop following HEAD (incident escape hatch) |
POSTHOG_KEY | unset | PostHog project API key. Unset = usage analytics fully disabled (no-op) |
POSTHOG_HOST | https://us.i.posthog.com | PostHog instance host |
ANALYTICS_SALT | unset | Required when POSTHOG_KEY is set (analytics stays off without it). Salts client fingerprints/IP hashes; rotating it resets all fingerprints |
Deployment
See DEPLOY.md for container build, environment, and platform notes.
Marketplaces
The same server URL is listed across multiple agent marketplaces:
| Marketplace | Listing |
|---|---|
| Smithery | smithery.ai/servers/cometchat/docs-mcp |
| Glama | glama.ai/mcp/servers/cometchat/docs-mcp |
| Cursor Marketplace | cursor.com/marketplace |
| Cursor Directory | cursor.directory |
| Anthropic Connector Directory | claude.com/connectors |
| Codex Marketplace | codex-marketplace.com |
Support
- Issues / feedback: open an issue in this repo.
- CometChat support:
support@cometchat.com. - Live MCP status:
curl https://mcp.cometchat.com/healthreturns{"status":"ok"}when healthy.
Contributing
PRs welcome — especially:
- New implementation bundles for under-served scenarios (drop a markdown file in
bundles/with the required frontmatter). - Bundle refreshes when SDK versions change (
last_verifieddate in the bundle's frontmatter triggers a CI warning if older than 6 months). - Tool improvements behind the existing read-only contract.
Out of scope today:
- Tools that write to a customer's CometChat app (separate authenticated connector, on the roadmap).
- Mixed read/write tools (Anthropic auto-rejection rule).
Privacy
The CometChat MCP server is read-only and requires no account, API key, or authentication. It serves only CometChat's public documentation and does not request, store, or transmit your code, prompts, or personal data. Standard request metadata (such as IP address) may be processed transiently for rate limiting and abuse prevention.
For full details, see CometChat's privacy policy: cometchat.com/legal-privacy-policy.
License
Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.
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