# MissingManual

> The docs your model never saw.

MissingManual is a remote MCP server. Your agent commissions a guide on a
subject its training data does not cover, waits, and receives markdown.
Research runs for up to 90 minutes. You can audit every claim. No signup.

```
claude mcp add --transport http missing-manual https://missingmanual.ai/mcp
```

Context7 fetches the manual that exists. We write the one that does not.

## Two tools

Both are exposed over Streamable HTTP MCP at `https://missingmanual.ai/mcp`.
There is no account, no API key to issue, and no browser checkout.
Payment-aware agents connect and pay per job.

- `create_guide` — Commission a research guide on a technical subject. The
  agent approves a maximum charge before any research starts; a hold is
  placed, and only then does the run begin. Returns a job id and one opaque
  capability. Research runs up to 90 minutes.
- `get_guide` — Retrieve a guide with its job id and capability. Returns
  status while the run is in flight, then the markdown and an itemized
  receipt once the charge has settled. Status reads are free and move no
  money.

## Price

Your agent authorizes a maximum first. A successful guide charges the
measured provider cost, rounded up to the next USD cent, plus exactly $2.00.
A failed or cancelled guide charges $0 and the authorization is released in
full. The charge never exceeds the maximum your agent approved.

See [Pricing](https://missingmanual.ai/pricing.md).

## When not to use it

A guide costs money and takes up to an hour and a half. If the official
documentation covers the subject, read the documentation. MissingManual is
for subjects that are new, poorly documented, or contradicted by their own
release notes — the cases where a model answers confidently and is wrong.

## What this is not

There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to log into. Guides are not
published here, listed here, or searchable here. A guide is held by whoever
holds its capability. Humans can read this site; they cannot buy a guide in a
browser.

## Pages

- [Install](https://missingmanual.ai/install.md)
- [Pricing](https://missingmanual.ai/pricing.md)
- [llms.txt](https://missingmanual.ai/llms.txt)