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Resolve library names and fetch third-party documentation from the Context7 hosted service

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Install

alisio install npm:@alisio/plugin-context7@0.1.1

Metadata

Package	@alisio/plugin-context7
Version	0.1.1
Published	Oct 4, 2026
Author	Alisio
License	MIT
Categories	Tools
Size	68.8 kB
Dependencies	0
Peer dependencies	1
Downloads (last month)	110
Source	First-party
Keywords	alisio-plugin, context7, documentation, tools

Security note: Plugins run in-process with your user privileges and are not sandboxed. Review the source before installing a third-party plugin.

Focused documentation lookups for Alisio: resolve a library name, then fetch the matching third-party documentation.

This is an independent plugin. It is not an official Context7 or Upstash extension, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by either project. It talks to Context7's public hosted MCP endpoint using its documented protocol.

Install

alisio install npm:@alisio/plugin-context7

Tools

Both tools have the external effect. Their inputs are sent to the Context7 hosted service.

• resolve-library-id — resolves a package or product name to a Context7 library ID. Input: libraryName (1–120 characters) and query (1–500 characters, the user's task).
• query-docs — fetches documentation for a resolved library ID. Input: libraryId matching Context7's documented shape (/org/project or /org/project/version) and query (1–500 characters).

Tools are read-only lookups but transmit data over the network, which is why the effect is external. The plugin does not use these capabilities as a source of truth for any Alisio state.

The plugin also ships a skill that teaches an agent when to resolve and query, and a slash command that performs the resolve-then-query flow manually.

Slash command

Alisio namespaces external plugin commands as :, so the installed command is:

/context7:c7-docs <library> -- <question>

For example:

/context7:c7-docs next.js -- how do I define a route handler?

The command resolves the library (unless you pass a library ID directly), then fetches documentation for the question. The c7-docs name is registered locally; the host exposes it as context7:c7-docs.

Authentication

Anonymous access works without setup at Context7's shared, IP-based rate limit. For higher limits, create a key in the Context7 dashboard and export it:

export CONTEXT7_API_KEY=<your-key>

CONTEXT7_API_KEY is the only supported source. The installed Alisio SDK exposes no tool-level secret or configuration API, so the plugin reads this environment variable and nothing else. A key is never accepted through tool input, never persisted, never logged, and never included in tool results, errors, or serialized state; an absent or implausibly shaped value simply falls back to anonymous access.

Safety and privacy

• All queries and library identifiers are sent to Context7's hosted service. Do not include secrets, credentials, personal data, or proprietary code in a query or libraryName.
• The remote endpoint is fixed at https://mcp.context7.com/mcp. There is no user-supplied endpoint, redirects are refused, requests are POST-only, and no cookies, proxies, or custom user agents are used.
• Each tool call opens a fresh session, carries any server-issued session id only in memory, and issues a best-effort cleanup request with an independent short timeout. There is no retry, no caching, no persistence, and no telemetry.
• Transport failures are reduced to a small, safe vocabulary (invalid input, rate limited, authentication failed, temporarily unavailable, invalid response, response exceeded limit, redirect refused). Raw URLs, headers, bodies, session ids, and service payloads are never surfaced. A 429 retry hint is reported only when the service supplied a bounded numeric value, and the plugin never sleeps on it.
• Returned documentation is untrusted third-party material. Only text parts are kept; each part and the aggregate output are bounded, control characters are normalized, Markdown structure is neutralized, and a provenance marker states that the content is third-party. The documentation may be incomplete or inaccurate and should be verified against authoritative upstream sources.
• Context7's own terms of service and privacy policy apply to your use of its service.

Requirements

Node.js >= 22.16 and an Alisio host with @alisio/sdk >=0.1.0-alpha.10.

License

MIT.