Mintlify shipped an MCP server — your docs are now an agent tool

If you ship docs on Mintlify, your customers' Claude / Cursor / Cline can now query them as a first-class tool. One toggle in the dashboard and your docs become an MCP endpoint with proper search.

Why we picked it

Documentation discovery is the hidden problem for AI dev tools. Most agents end up scraping docs sites with brittle selectors. MCP fixes that, and Mintlify's making it a default rather than an integration project.

What's included

• Auto-generated MCP server at mcp.your-domain.com
• Search, page retrieval, and code-snippet extraction tools exposed by default
• OAuth for private docs (enterprise plans)
• Analytics dashboard showing which AI tools are hitting your endpoint

Watch out for

• MCP server is read-only; no write-back of agent suggestions yet
• Free plan customers don't get this; you need at least Growth ($150/mo)
• Search quality is only as good as your existing search index — bad search becomes a bad MCP tool

The migration is a single click if you're already on Mintlify. If you're not, this is a real reason to consider switching.