# Installer context7-mcp avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de context7-mcp pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:context7-mcp
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install context7-mcp
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#context7-mcp
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/context7-mcp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:context7-mcp
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.2.5
- **Résumé source:** Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://context7.com>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-26T06:33:29Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- context7-mcp (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 3.2.5
## Historique du projet et usages

Context7 MCP is Upstash's Model Context Protocol server for giving AI coding agents current, version-specific library documentation at prompt time.

### Historique du projet

The public Context7 repository was created in March 2025 and describes itself as the source for the MCP server, while noting that supporting backend, parsing, and crawling components are private. The `@upstash/context7-mcp` npm package followed in April 2025; a separate `ctx7` CLI package appeared in January 2026.

### Historique d'adoption

Context7 grew with the MCP and AI-editor packaging wave. Official docs and the README document setup paths for MCP clients, CLI-plus-skill workflows, and multiple editor integrations, while package metadata shows distribution through npm and the input package facts record Homebrew and Nix packaging.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users either register `https://mcp.context7.com/mcp` with an MCP client or run `npx ctx7 setup` to install a CLI/skill workflow. The README recommends an API key for higher rate limits but does not document a fixed local credential file for the Homebrew package.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

The formula is notable because it packages an MCP server, not a traditional standalone Unix tool. It reflects a newer class of developer-tool packages whose main job is to bridge local editors and remote documentation indexes.

### Chronologie

- 2025-03-26: Public Context7 repository created.
- 2025-04-08: `@upstash/context7-mcp` npm package created.
- 2026-01-21: `ctx7` npm CLI package created.
- 2026-06-22: `@upstash/context7-mcp@3.2.2` release published.

### Related projects

- The README lists related official packages including `ctx7`, `@upstash/context7-sdk`, and Context7 tools for the Vercel AI SDK.

### Sources

- <https://context7.com/docs>
- <https://github.com/upstash/context7>
- <https://www.npmjs.com/package/@upstash/context7-mcp>
- <https://www.npmjs.com/package/ctx7>
- <https://github.com/upstash/context7/releases/tag/%40upstash/context7-mcp%403.2.2>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/context7-mcp>


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour context7-mcp. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.


## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - context7-mcp: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/context7-mcp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/context7-mcp.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/context7-mcp.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph