Deadzone

Name: Deadzone
Author: laradji

by laradjicommunityv0.7.4

An MCP server that provides semantic search over a local, version-pinned documentation index stored on the user’s machine. It exposes tools to search libraries and retrieve ranked documentation snippets, using embeddings and cosine similarity over a local Turso database.

From the registry: Local-first MCP server: semantic search over library docs. No cloud, no API key, no telemetry.

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Install & configure

Prerequisites

optional
Install Deadzone binary
Install the Deadzone executable via Homebrew on macOS, or download the Linux release binary/AppImage. The README also provides a Docker image as an alternative runtime.
```
$ brew install laradji/deadzone/deadzone
```
https://github.com/laradji/deadzone/releases},{

Install in your client

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Please install the `deadzone` MCP server into my current AI client (that's you).

Optional prerequisites:
- Install Deadzone binary — Install the Deadzone executable via Homebrew on macOS, or download the Linux release binary/AppImage. The README also provides a Docker image as an alternative runtime. Run: `brew install laradji/deadzone/deadzone` (https://github.com/laradji/deadzone/releases},{)

Canonical MCP server config (stdio transport):
- command: `deadzone`
- args: ["server"]
- optional environment variables:
  - `DEADZONE_ORT_LIB_PATH`: Path to a manually provided libonnxruntime shared library; skips auto-download. (example: `<path-to-libonnxruntime>`)
  - `DEADZONE_ORT_CACHE`: Override the ONNX Runtime library cache directory. (example: `<path-to-ort-cache>`)
  - `DEADZONE_HUGOT_CACHE`: Override the model weights cache directory. (example: `<path-to-hugot-cache>`)
  - `DEADZONE_DB_CACHE`: Override the deadzone.db cache directory. (example: `<path-to-db-cache>`)
  - `DEADZONE_DB_OFFLINE`: If set to 1, disables network access and requires all needed assets to already be cached. In the container image this is set by default. (example: `1`)
  - `DEADZONE_DB_AUTOUPDATE`: If set to 0, disables the boot-time database freshness probe. (example: `0`)

Note: Prefer the native binary path for portability. If using a downloaded binary instead of PATH-installed 'deadzone', set the command to the full executable path such as '<path-to-deadzone>' with args ['server']. A container-based stdio alternative is command 'docker' with args ['run','--rm','-i','ghcr.io/laradji/deadzone:latest','server']. First native launch may download the pinned database and ONNX runtime unless offline caches are already populated.

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Note: Prefer the native binary path for portability. If using a downloaded binary instead of PATH-installed 'deadzone', set the command to the full executable path such as '<path-to-deadzone>' with args ['server']. A container-based stdio alternative is command 'docker' with args ['run','--rm','-i','ghcr.io/laradji/deadzone:latest','server']. First native launch may download the pinned database and ONNX runtime unless offline caches are already populated.

Tools (2)

search_libraries

Free-text search over the library index to return ranked library/version hits with metadata such as lib_id, version, doc_count, and match_score.

search_docs

Semantically search documentation snippets for a query, optionally filtered by lib_id and version, and return token-budgeted snippets.

Environment variables

DEADZONE_DB_OFFLINErequiredForces offline mode and refuses any network access; if nothing is cached, startup fails. It is set by default in the container image.