doxygen-mcp

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The Doxygen MCP Server is a comprehensive Model Context Protocol server that provides full access to Doxygen's documentation generation capabilities, enabling AI assistants to manage documentation for various programming languages.

Doxygen MCP Server

A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides full access to Doxygen's documentation generation capabilities. This server enables AI assistants like Claude to generate, configure, and manage documentation for any supported programming language through a clean, powerful interface.

Refer to the docs/ directory in this repository for more comprehensive documentation.

Overview

The Doxygen MCP Server automates the generation of documentation from source code comments, parsing information about classes, functions, and variables to produce output in formats like HTML and PDF. By simplifying and standardizing the documentation process, it enhances collaboration and maintenance across diverse programming languages and project scales.

Features

🚀 Core Capabilities

  • Project Management: Initialize and configure Doxygen projects with intelligent defaults
  • Multi-Language Support: Full support for C/C++, Python, PHP, Java, C#, JavaScript, and more
  • Documentation Generation: Generate comprehensive documentation in multiple formats
  • Validation & Analysis: Check documentation coverage and identify missing documentation
  • Diagram Generation: Create UML diagrams, inheritance graphs, and call graphs
  • Configuration Management: Advanced Doxyfile creation and management

📋 Supported Languages

Primary Support:

  • C, C++, Python, PHP

Extended Support:

  • Java, C#, JavaScript, Objective-C, Fortran, VHDL, IDL

Additional Support (via extension mapping):

  • Batch, PowerShell, Bash, Perl, Go, and more

📄 Output Formats

  • HTML (with interactive navigation)
  • LaTeX and PDF
  • XML (for further processing)
  • RTF (Rich Text Format)
  • Man pages
  • DocBook

Installation, Usage, Configuration, and Development

See USING elsewhere in this repo.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING elsewhere in this repo.

License

See COPYING eslewhere in this repo.

Support

See BUGS elsewhere in this repo.

Roadmap

Planned Features

  • Real-time documentation preview
  • Integration with popular IDEs
  • Custom theme support
  • Advanced search capabilities
  • Multi-repository documentation
  • CI/CD integration helpers
  • Performance analytics
  • Documentation quality scoring

Version History

  • v1.0.0: Initial release with full MCP support for all features of Doxygen up to and including version 1.14.0.

For more information about Doxygen itself, visit doxygen.nl.