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Provides tools for reading and searching Norton Guide database files, including entry retrieval, menu navigation, full-text search, and link following.

1. Click on "Install Server". 2. Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state. 3. In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@ngmcp search for 'data types' in the Clipper guide" That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed. Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.

ngmcp

by davep

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ngmcp

ngmcp is an MCP server that exposes Norton Guide database files to AI agents. It is built on top of the ngdb library and uses fastmcp as its MCP framework.

Norton Guides are a classic hypertext help-file format from the DOS era, used widely for Clipper and similar tool documentation.

Installation

NGMCP requires Python 3.12 or later.

Using uv (recommended)

The fastest and most modern way to install NGMCP is with uv:

uv tool install ngmcp

If you don't have uv installed you can use uvx.sh to perform the installation. For GNU/Linux or macOS or similar:

curl -LsSf uvx.sh/ngmcp/install.sh | sh

or on Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://uvx.sh/ngmcp/install.ps1 | iex"

Using pipx

pipx install ngmcp

Related MCP server: MkDocs MCP Server

Configuration

How you configure your agent to use the server will depend on the agent you're using. Generally the configuration to use will be:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ngmcp": {
      "command": "ngmcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "NGMCP_GUIDE_DIRS": "/path/to/your/ng/files"
      }
    }
  }
}

[!note] Adjust the command and args depending on your installation method.

Configuration

Environment variable	Default	Description
`NGMCP_GUIDE_DIRS`	(none)	Colon-separated list of directories to search for `.ng` files
`NGMCP_ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_PATHS`	`false`	Allow tools to open `.ng` files by absolute path

Available Tools

Tool	Description
`get_guide_info`	Title, credits, magic, `made_with`, menu count, and file size
`list_menus`	Menu structure: title and prompt list for each menu
`list_entries`	All entries with type, offset, line count, and first line of text
`read_entry`	Full plain-text content of the entry at a given offset
`read_entry_source`	Full plain-text Norton Guide source content of the entry at a given offset
`follow_link`	Follow a short-entry link to the target long entry
`line_search_guide`	Line-oriented full-text search through all entries
`body_search_guide`	Full-body-oriented full-text search through all entries
`list_guide_files`	`.ng` files in the configured guide directories

Hacking

See Contributing.md.

git clone https://github.com/davep/ngmcp
cd ngmcp
make setup
make checkall

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