MCP server for AgileX Robotics product docs

AGILEX Docs MCP

Official product documentation for AgileX Robotics (松灵机器人) — user manuals, CAN 2.0B protocol references, firmware notes, SDK tech posts and after-sales FAQ for piper, pika, nero, ranger, limo, scout, bunker, hunter, tracer, umr, cobot_magic and aloha.

Point your AI coding assistant at this server before writing integration code for AgileX hardware, so it consults the real manual instead of guessing baud rates, frame formats or pinouts.

This repository documents the public interface. It covers the endpoint, the tool signatures and every client configuration. The indexing service that backs it is operated by AgileX and is not part of this repository.

Endpoint

No API key, no OAuth, no local process. If your client speaks Streamable HTTP, you only need the URL.

Quick start

Clients are listed in order of how common they are. Pick one.

# 1) Claude Code — all projects
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http agilex-docs https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp

# 2) Codex CLI — writes ~/.codex/config.toml
codex mcp add agilex-docs --url https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp

Cursor one-click:

cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=agilex-docs&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3NlcnZpY2UuYWdpbGV4LmFpL2FnaWxleC1kb2NzL21jcCJ9

Any client that reads mcpServers (Cursor, Claude Desktop, Cline, Windsurf, Cherry Studio, Continue, Zed, LibreChat, Dify …):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agilex-docs": {
      "url": "https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Full per-client instructions: docs/CLIENTS.md.

Tools

Five read-only tools. The names are deliberately verb_noun so a model can pick the right one without reading the schema first.

search_docs returns doc_id, title, space, url, score, chars and a snippet. Then use find_in_doc to jump to the passage you need and read it with get_doc(doc_id, offset=…). If the response has truncated: true, call get_doc again with next_offset.

Manuals open with a cover page and preface, so reading from offset 0 rarely answers a specific question — that is why the search-then-locate-then-read path is the recommended one rather than get_doc alone.

max_chars is honoured as requested (1–120 000), and the applied value is echoed back as max_chars in the response. There used to be an undocumented 2000-character floor; a caller paging in 1000-character steps would then re-read overlapping text without any indication, so it was removed.

Field semantics

count means different things in different tools, deliberately:

find_in_doc(limit=1) can therefore return count: 24 with one hit — returned tells you what is in the array. matched_terms / missing_terms make partial matches explicit instead of silently ignoring words the page does not contain.

Numeric parameters declare their bounds in the schema: limit 1–25 (search), 1–10 (find_in_doc), 1–300 (list_docs); max_chars 1–120000; offset ≥ 0. An out-of-range value is a validation error, not a silent clamp.

A result whose title carries a 【未发】 / 【暂不对外】 marker is still searchable — whether it is published is the documentation owner's call, and the code does not blacklist by keyword — but the entry carries status_note so a model does not cite unreleased material as settled.

Why find_in_doc exists

13% of the corpus needs pagination and the longest page is 162 000 characters; locating one CAN frame table in that by paging with get_doc costs nine round trips. find_in_doc scores paragraphs and returns their absolute offsets, so a single get_doc(doc_id, offset=…) lands on the table.

Pass the concept as query, not the product name. Terms that already appear in the page title are ignored: search_docs picked the page by them, so repeating them only dilutes the ranking. This is measurable — on the RANGER MINI 3.0 manual, query="RANGER MINI 3.0 CAN 波特率" returned 44 passages with "1.1 产品列表" on top, while query="CAN 波特率" returned 2 with "3.2 CAN接口协议" on top.

Scoring is weighted by corpus-wide document frequency, not raw term count: can appears in 138 pages (weight 1.25) while 波特率 appears in 39 (weight 2.29). If the query contains a distinctive term that the page does not contain, the tool returns zero hits and says so — otherwise English manuals produced 76 meaningless can matches for the query "CAN 波特率". A query made only of generic terms (e.g. just CAN) still returns matches.

Response shape

// search_docs("piper CAN 波特率")
{
  "query": "piper CAN 波特率",
  "count": 3,
  "results": [
    {
      "doc_id": "01a06659-2d4e-7029-bc64-63f9352b34a6",
      "title": "PIPER X 用户手册(CN)",
      "space": "AGX-机械臂产品手册",
      "url": "https://kb.agilex.ai/s/agx-robot-arm-products-cn-en/p/pWVjLJsYc0",
      "score": 18.42,
      "chars": 13264,
      "snippet": "...CAN通信标准采用的是CAN2.0B标准，通讯波特率为1000K..."
    }
  ]
}

// get_doc(doc_id="01a06659-…", max_chars=2000)
{
  "doc_id": "01a06659-2d4e-7029-bc64-63f9352b34a6",
  "title": "PIPER X 用户手册(CN)",
  "url": "https://kb.agilex.ai/s/agx-robot-arm-products-cn-en/p/pWVjLJsYc0",
  "chars": 13264,
  "offset": 0,
  "truncated": true,
  "next_offset": 2000,
  "content": "..."
}

// find_in_doc(doc_id="01a06659-…", query="波特率")
{
  "doc_id": "01a06659-2d4e-7029-bc64-63f9352b34a6",
  "title": "PIPER X 用户手册(CN)",
  "url": "https://kb.agilex.ai/s/agx-robot-arm-products-cn-en/p/pWVjLJsYc0",
  "chars": 13264,
  "query": "波特率",
  "count": 1,
  "hits": [
    {
      "offset": 12101,                // ← feed straight into get_doc
      "heading": "6 机械臂CAN协议",
      "score": 45.85,
      "matched": ["波特", "特率"],
      "excerpt": "…通讯波特率为1000K，报文格式采用MOTOROLA(MSB)格式…"
    }
  ],
  "hint": "用 get_doc(doc_id, offset=hit.offset) 读这一段前后；offset 是全文绝对位置。"
}

url always points at the original page — cite it so the user can verify.

Client configuration

# all projects
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http agilex-docs https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp

# this project only (writes .mcp.json, can be committed)
claude mcp add --scope project --transport http agilex-docs https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp

claude mcp list

codex mcp add agilex-docs --url https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp

[mcp_servers.agilex-docs]
url = "https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp"

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agilex-docs": {
      "url": "https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "agilex-docs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agilex-docs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

- insert:
    - id: agilex-docs
      name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client'
      config:
        serverName: agilex-docs
        transport: streamable-http
        url: https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp

dsh web --patch "$PWD/examples/agilex-docs.cordis.yml"

Example prompts

I need a CAN control script for the piper arm. First call search_docs with "piper CAN 报文", then get_doc on the best hit, and write the code using the frame format and baud rate from the manual. Cite the manual URL in a comment.

Our ranger mini throws a chassis error code. Search the after-sales FAQ for the code, quote the troubleshooting steps and link the page.

Because the server ships an instructions block telling the model to search first and cite URLs, the workflow usually happens without any extra prompting.

Scope and data

The corpus covers product documentation that is publicly accessible at https://kb.agilex.ai. Internal spaces are excluded: the service reads only publicly shared content and never authenticates, so internal documents cannot be reached through this endpoint.

MCP access therefore does not depend on the visitor login on the knowledge base. Search and reading work anonymously; only the human-facing page url redirects to a visitor login (that gate exists for access logging, not authorization).

When a query names a product (pika 固件升级, ranger CAN 波特率), results are restricted to that product's documents. If the product has not documented the topic, the reply is an empty result set with a hint saying so — it never falls back to another product's manual. Cross-product fallback is the dangerous failure mode here: a user could follow PiPER flashing steps on a PIKA.

The knowledge base also contains folder pages and placeholder pages with no body text. These are excluded from search results: a folder titled "PIKA固件升级" would otherwise outrank real content for that query and return an empty page. They remain listable through list_docs, and get_doc on one returns empty: true with a hint rather than 0 characters.

New public spaces are added automatically; withdrawn shares are removed on the next refresh.

Rate limits

Higher quota or a dedicated endpoint: contact AgileX (see Feedback).

Limits

• Read-only. No write tools; nothing here can move a robot.
• Images are not inlined. Attachment URLs on the source pages are signed with a short TTL, so images render as （图：caption）; open the page url to view them.
• Binary attachments (PDF/XLSX) in public spaces are not parsed — page bodies only.
• Lexical matching, not semantic. Rephrase if a term misses.
• One product family per query works best; cross-product questions need multiple searches.

Verify it works

# health
curl -s https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/health | jq

# MCP handshake — the reply is text/event-stream, so strip the "data: " prefix
# before piping to jq (piping SSE straight into jq fails with a parse error)
curl -s -X POST https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1"}}}' \
  | sed -n 's/^data: //p' | jq '.result.serverInfo'

# full round trip (initialize → tools/list → search → find_in_doc → get_doc)
./scripts/smoke-test.sh

# the Chinese README as plain text (same source as README.zh-CN.md)
curl -s https://service.agilex.ai/agilex-docs/readme.md | head

Repository layout

README.md                    this file
README.zh-CN.md              Chinese version; also served at /agilex-docs/readme.md
server.json                  official MCP Registry manifest
LICENSE                      MIT (documentation + manifest)
docs/CLIENTS.md              per-client setup, long form
examples/                    copy-paste configs per client
scripts/smoke-test.sh        end-to-end check against the live endpoint

Where to find it

Search term inside any directory: agilex.

The endpoint is fixed, so no directory listing is required to use it.

Feedback

Missing or wrong document → contact AgileX support through https://www.agilex.ai/ and include the page URL.

Issues about this repository (manifest, docs, client configs) → open an issue here. Issues about document content → the support channel, since the docs live in the internal knowledge base and this repo cannot edit them.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The license covers the documentation and manifest in this repository. The documentation content served over MCP remains the property of AgileX Robotics.