Use these docs with AI agents

Every page on this site is available to AI agents as Markdown, and the site runs an MCP server that searches and reads the documentation. Connect an agent once, then ask it to integrate Sherlock into your service with the docs in context.

This page is about the documentation. To let an agent query your own logs, traces, and metrics, connect the Sherlock MCP server instead. See Ask an AI assistant.

Connect the docs MCP server

Server URL: https://sherlock-c8721ead.mintlify.app/mcp The server needs no login. It exposes two tools, search_sherlock and query_docs_filesystem_sherlock, that search the public pages and read them in full. The Copy page menu at the top of every page has the same server under Copy MCP Server, Connect to Cursor, and Connect to VS Code.

claude mcp add --transport http sherlock-docs \
https://sherlock-c8721ead.mintlify.app/mcp

codex mcp add sherlock-docs --url https://sherlock-c8721ead.mintlify.app/mcp

Open the Copy page menu on any page and choose Connect to Cursor. Or add the server to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sherlock-docs": {
      "url": "https://sherlock-c8721ead.mintlify.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Open the Copy page menu on any page and choose Connect to VS Code. Or add the server to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "sherlock-docs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sherlock-c8721ead.mintlify.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

In Claude, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it Sherlock docs, and paste the server URL. Enable it in a chat from the tools menu.

npx add-mcp https://sherlock-c8721ead.mintlify.app/mcp

add-mcp detects the agents installed on your machine, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and OpenCode, and writes the server into the one you pick.

Then ask

Once the server is connected, the agent searches these docs on its own when a question touches Sherlock. A prompt that names the docs gets the best result:

Instrument a Node.js service with the docs in context.

Open in Cursor

Other ways to give an agent the docs

Markdown for one page. Append .md to any page URL, for example /sdk/nodejs/quickstart.md. View as Markdown in the Copy page menu does the same.
Index of every page. /llms.txt lists all pages with descriptions. /llms-full.txt holds the whole site in one file.
Skill file. /skill.md describes what Sherlock does and how to work with it. Install it into an agent with npx skills add https://sherlock-c8721ead.mintlify.app.
Discovery. /.well-known/mcp and /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json describe the MCP server for tools that find servers on their own.

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Node.js quickstart

The page most agents read first when they instrument a service.

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Use these docs with AI agents

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Node.js quickstart

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Node.js quickstart

Connect the docs MCP server

Then ask

Other ways to give an agent the docs

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