Is the Mcp Local Rag skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from shinpr/mcp-local-rag. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Mcp Local Rag SkillProof Score?

8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install Mcp Local Rag?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Mcp Local Rag with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Mcp Local Rag

Drives a local RAG MCP server: index, hybrid-search, and sync your docs offline

by shinpr · shinpr/mcp-local-rag

Tested · Works

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Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 8.8/10
Tested: Jul 21, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 0690453

Located SKILL.md at skills/mcp-local-rag/SKILL.md; all 4 body-referenced files returned HTTP 200. Cloned into a temp HOME and confirmed the skill dir + references copy cleanly to ~/.claude/skills/mcp-local-rag/. Could not run the RAG pipeline (needs the mcp-local-rag server, Node 22, and a model download), so I tested the Claude-side reasoning layer: for an error-stack "search my docs" task I wrote a baseline query artifact (whole stack trace dumped as the query, limit 10, keeps noise chunks) and a skill-following artifact (baseline.txt/skill.txt in scratchpad). Following the body's rules produced a materially different, tighter query ("refreshSession accessToken undefined session"), limit 5, and applied the score table to drop the 0.63 and 0.78 chunks while keeping 0.22+0.41.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 7/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What Mcp Local Rag does

Guides Claude to search, save, and maintain a local document index through the companion mcp-local-rag MCP server (or its npx CLI), covering hybrid query formulation, score-based result filtering, chunk-neighbor context expansion, PDF visual ingest, and disk-to-index sync. Triggers on phrases like "search my docs", "save this page", "read around that chunk", or "sync my index". Requires registering the mcp-local-rag server (Node 22+) with a BASE_DIR before the tools it references exist.

How to install Mcp Local Rag

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/mcp-local-rag.git /tmp/mcp-local-rag-src
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/mcp-local-rag-src/skills/mcp-local-rag ~/.claude/skills/mcp-local-rag
# The skill only drives the mcp-local-rag MCP server — its tools (ingest_file, query_documents, sync_start...) do not exist until you register it.
# Requires Node.js 22+. Register the server (replace the path with your docs dir):
# claude mcp add local-rag --scope user --env BASE_DIR=/absolute/path/to/your/documents -- npx -y mcp-local-rag
# First index sync downloads a ~90MB embedding model; opt-in PDF visual mode downloads a local VLM under CACHE_DIR (./models/).
# CLI without MCP: npx mcp-local-rag ingest ./docs/ ; npx mcp-local-rag query "authentication API"

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Mcp Local Rag

/mcp-local-rag Drives a local RAG MCP server: index, hybrid-search, and sync your docs offline

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Search my docs for last quarter's notes
Save this page into my local RAG index
Read around that chunk for more context

Frequently asked questions

Is the Mcp Local Rag skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from shinpr/mcp-local-rag. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Mcp Local Rag work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 21, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Located SKILL.md at skills/mcp-local-rag/SKILL.md; all 4 body-referenced files returned HTTP 200. Cloned into a temp HOME and confirmed the skill dir + references copy cleanly to ~/.claude/skills/mcp-local-rag/. Could not run the RAG pipeline (needs the mcp-local-rag server, Node 22, and a model download), so I tested the Claude-side reasoning layer: for an error-stack "search my docs" task I wrote a baseline query artifact (whole stack trace dumped as the query, limit 10, keeps noise chunks) and a skill-following artifact (baseline.txt/skill.txt in scratchpad). Following the body's rules produced a materially different, tighter query ("refreshSession accessToken undefined session"), limit 5, and applied the score table to drop the 0.63 and 0.78 chunks while keeping 0.22+0.41.
What is the Mcp Local Rag SkillProof Score?: 8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install Mcp Local Rag?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Mcp Local Rag with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.