generated: '2026-08-14'
method: probed
status: published
source: https://docs.context.dev/install-mcp.md
server:
  name: context
  transport: http
  url: https://mcp.context.dev/mcp
  local_package: context.dev-mcp
  local_transport: stdio
  auth:
    style: oauth2
    flow: authorization_code + PKCE (S256)
    scopes:
    - api.read
    - api.write
    dynamic_client_registration: true
    registration_endpoint: https://mcp.context.dev/register
    authorization_endpoint: https://mcp.context.dev/authorize
    token_endpoint: https://mcp.context.dev/token
    note: 'Browser sign-in. The docs state plainly: "Context.dev uses OAuth. You sign in through your
      browser, so you do not need to paste an API key into your MCP configuration." Clients register themselves
      via RFC 7591 DCR — the Claude connector instructions say to leave client ID and secret empty.'
install:
  claude_code: claude mcp add --transport http --scope user context https://mcp.context.dev/mcp
  claude_desktop: Customize -> Connectors -> Add custom connector, name it "Context.dev", URL https://mcp.context.dev/mcp,
    leave OAuth client ID/secret empty, then Connect and sign in via the browser.
  cursor: '{"mcpServers":{"context":{"url":"https://mcp.context.dev/mcp"}}}'
  stdio: npx -y context.dev-mcp@latest
  clients_documented:
  - Claude / Cowork / Claude Desktop
  - Claude Code
  - Cursor
  - Codex
  - ChatGPT
  - VS Code
tools:
- name: execute
  description: Code Mode — runs agent-authored TypeScript against an initialized Context.dev SDK client
    in a sandboxed container, letting the agent compose multiple API calls and return curated results
    in one round trip.
- name: search_docs
  description: Search the Context.dev SDK documentation for methods, parameters, and usage examples. Annotated
    readOnlyHint.
tools_note: This tool list was read from the LEGACY Stainless-hosted endpoint (https://context-dev.stlmcp.com),
  which answers tools/list anonymously. The canonical endpoint https://mcp.context.dev/mcp requires OAuth
  for discovery as well as invocation, so its live tool list could NOT be confirmed anonymously and may
  differ. Treat these two tools as the best available evidence, not as a verified reading of the canonical
  server.
deployment:
  mode: remote
  endpoint: https://context-dev.stlmcp.com
  verified: probed
  probe: live
  tools: 2
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census
endpoints_probed:
- url: https://mcp.context.dev/mcp
  role: canonical
  method: POST tools/list (jsonrpc 2.0)
  http_status: 401
  www_authenticate: Bearer error="unauthorized", error_description="Authorization needed", resource_metadata="https://mcp.context.dev/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp"
  discovery_gated: true
  checked: '2026-08-14'
- url: https://context-dev.stlmcp.com
  role: legacy (Stainless-hosted)
  method: POST tools/list (jsonrpc 2.0)
  http_status: 200
  transport_framing: text/event-stream
  tools_returned: 2
  schemas_available: true
  discovery_gated: false
  auth_for_invocation: x-context-dev-api-key header (ctxt_secret_ prefix)
  checked: '2026-08-14'
  note: 'Still live and still answering anonymous discovery, but no longer the URL the docs tell people
    to use. Two hosted endpoints for the same product is itself a finding: an agent that discovered Context.dev
    before 2026-08 is pointed at a different server, with a different auth model, than one onboarding
    today.'
oauth_discovery:
  authorization_server_metadata: well-known/contextdev-mcp-oauth-authorization-server.json
  protected_resource_metadata: well-known/contextdev-mcp-oauth-protected-resource-mcp.json
  openid_configuration: well-known/contextdev-mcp-openid-configuration.json
  rfcs:
  - RFC 8414 (authorization server metadata)
  - RFC 9728 (protected resource metadata)
  - RFC 7591 (dynamic client registration)
  - RFC 7636 (PKCE, S256)
notes: Code-Mode design — two meta-tools over the full SDK surface rather than one tool per operation.
  See mcp/contextdev-tool-crosswalk.yml for what that costs an agent in schema visibility.
cross_ref:
  crosswalk: mcp/contextdev-tool-crosswalk.yml
  scopes: scopes/contextdev-scopes.yml
  authentication: authentication/contextdev-authentication.yml
  a2a: a2a/contextdev-a2a.yml
  packages: packages/contextdev-packages.yml