Dash MCP server

This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to Dash, the documentation browser for macOS. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI to look things up in the docs you have installed, instead of copying and pasting pages yourself. It is handy if you keep Dash open all day and want your AI to read the same reference material you do.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something like which docsets you have installed, or to search for a function name. The AI passes that request to this helper, which talks to the Dash app on your Mac. Dash searches across your documentation sets and code snippets and hands back the matches. The AI then shows you the results in the chat, and if you want, it can open one of those pages and read it for you.

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What you can do with it

• List the documentation sets you have installed in Dash
• Search across your docsets and your saved code snippets
• Open a documentation page from a search result and read it
• Turn on full-text search for a specific docset so searches go deeper
• Ask follow-up questions about a page your AI just loaded

Try asking your AI

• “Which documentation sets do I have installed in Dash?”
• “Search my Dash docs for how to make an HTTP request in Python”
• “Find anything in my snippets about date formatting”
• “Open the page you just found and summarize it for me”

What it gives back to you

You get back lists of docsets, search results with titles and short snippets, and the text of a documentation page when your AI loads one. It all shows up as normal chat text, so you can read it, ask follow-up questions, or have your AI explain it. Nothing is changed in Dash itself except when you ask it to turn on full-text search for a docset.

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Who it's for

Developers and anyone who keeps Dash open on a Mac and wants their AI to read the same documentation they do.