Schema | Ref

Ref

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description
`REF_ALPHA`	No	Alpha configuration - still supported for former alpha users
`REF_API_KEY`	Yes	API key for Ref Tools - sign up to get an API key
`DISABLE_SEARCH_WEB`	No	Set to 'true' to disable the ref_search_web tool

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
ref_search_documentationB	Search for documentation on the web or github as well from private resources like repos and pdfs. Use Ref 'ref_read_url' to read the content of a url.
ref_read_urlA	Read the content of a url as markdown. The entire exact URL from a Ref 'ref_search_documentation' result should be passed to this tool to read it.

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
`search_docs`	A quick way to check technical documentation. This prompt helps you search documentation for any technical platform, framework, API, service, database, or library.
`my_docs`	Search through your private documentation, repos, and PDFs that you've uploaded to Ref.

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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