Why you are promoting paid stuff?

[azeemgujjar]

I just noticed that you are promoting Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code.. and not even discussed VSCODE at all father and mother of (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code) seems context7 is specially designed to go premium rather than using opensource and free stuff?

[ruslanlap]

Fair question, but the premise doesn't really hold up — Context7 is MIT-licensed and free to use. A few concrete points from the repo itself:

1. Everything in this repo is open source (MIT) — the MCP server, the ctx7 CLI, the TypeScript SDK, and the AI SDK tools are all published as npm packages (@upstash/context7-mcp, ctx7, @upstash/context7-sdk, @upstash/context7-tools-ai-sdk).

2. The core workflow needs no account and no payment. npx ctx7 setup or the plain MCP server URL https://mcp.context7.com/mcp works out of the box; the API key from context7.com/dashboard is optional and only bumps rate limits.

3. VS Code is supported — there's a dedicated setup page at https://context7.com/docs/clients/vscode, and the general client list (https://context7.com/docs/resources/all-clients) covers 30+ clients, including fully open-source ones. Cursor/Windsurf/Claude Code get the badge links on the README simply because they're the most common agentic clients people ask about, not because of any paid placement.

4. Docs are community-submitted and free to browse — anyone can add a library (https://context7.com/docs/adding-libraries), and the "Report" button on each project page is the intended channel for content concerns.

If there's a specific spot where you hit a paywall or a hard gate, post the exact URL and it's worth filing as an issue — that would be a bug, not a design choice.