mcp-local-rag

io.github.damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 13 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-07-23
Health score 49

About mcp-local-rag

mcp-local-rag is an MCP server published by the GitHub account damoqiongqiu. Semantic code & doc search with keyword boost. AST code nav, auto HF mirror, local, privacy-first.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag at version 0.21.0.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

Version 0.21.0 was published on 23 July 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`BASE_DIR`	No	No	Base directory for document storage (defaults to current working directory). Ignored when BASE_DIRS is set.
`BASE_DIRS`	No	No	JSON array of base directories (e.g. '["/a","/b"]'). Takes precedence over BASE_DIR.
`DB_PATH`	No	No	Path to LanceDB database directory (defaults to ./lancedb/)
`CACHE_DIR`	No	No	Directory where Transformers.js models are cached (defaults to ./models/)
`MODEL_NAME`	No	No	Embedding model name (defaults to Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2)
`MAX_FILE_SIZE`	No	No	Maximum file size in bytes (defaults to 104857600 / 100MB)
`RAG_MAX_DISTANCE`	No	No	Maximum distance threshold for filtering search results. Results with distance greater than this value will be excluded. Lower values mean stricter filtering (e.g., 0.5 for high relevance only)
`RAG_GROUPING`	No	No	Grouping mode for quality filtering. 'similar' returns only the most similar group (stops at first distance jump). 'related' includes related groups (stops at second distance jump). Unset means no grouping filter
`RAG_MAX_FILES`	No	No	Maximum number of files to keep in search results. Results are filtered to include only chunks from the top N best-scoring files. For example, 1 returns only the single best-matching file's chunks. Unset means no file filtering.
`CHUNK_MIN_LENGTH`	No	No	Minimum chunk length in characters (1-10000, defaults to 50). Chunks shorter than this threshold are filtered out during ingestion.
`RAG_DEVICE`	No	No	Execution device for the embedder (defaults to cpu). Passed straight to ONNX Runtime; see the Transformers.js device source for the supported backend names. If the requested device fails to initialize, the server throws an error.
`RAG_DTYPE`	No	No	Embedding quantization dtype for the embedder (defaults to fp32). Opt-in and pass-through; accepts any dtype the chosen model provides (fp32, fp16, q8, int8, ...). If the model has no variant for the requested dtype, the server throws an error. Changing this changes the embedding space — re-ingest existing data.
`RAG_HYBRID_WEIGHT`	No	No	Keyword boost factor for hybrid search (0.0-1.0, defaults to 0.6). 0 means semantic similarity only; higher values increase the keyword-match contribution to the final score.
`RAG_WATCH`	No	No	Enable automatic file watcher to detect changes and re-index modified files (true/1 to enable). Useful during active development.
`HF_ENDPOINT`	No	No	Explicit HuggingFace endpoint URL to use for model downloads. When set, auto-mirror detection is skipped and this URL is used directly. Useful when you have a full-featured mirror.
`HF_AUTO_MIRROR`	No	No	Enable automatic mirror detection for HuggingFace downloads (defaults to true). Set to "false" or "0" to disable and use huggingface.co directly. The mirror chain is: huggingface.co → hf-mirror.com → modelscope.cn.
`HTTPS_PROXY`	No	No	HTTPS proxy URL for downloading embedding models (e.g. http://proxy:8080). Required only if behind a corporate proxy.
`HTTP_PROXY`	No	No	HTTP proxy URL for downloading embedding models. Fallback if HTTPS_PROXY is not set.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for no secrets
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account damoqiongqiu
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag@0.21.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 144 files in @damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag@0.21.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 144 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 49 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity13 / 40

13 GitHub stars, 132 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity8 / 25

Last push 2026-07-23, last release 2026-07-11, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 0 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag`
Publisher	GitHub account damoqiongqiu
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account damoqiongqiu. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `@damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag` 0.21.0 (stdio)
Version	0.21.0
Published	2026-07-23
Last updated	2026-07-23
Source repository	https://github.com/damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag
Website	None linked
Category	Files & documents (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-local-rag": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@damoqiongqiu/mcp-local-rag@0.21.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-damoqiongqiu-mcp-local-rag.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.