Idea: Payload CMS Doc MCP

[jasonz-ncc42]

Documentation Issue

Hi, team. I love working on Payload CMS 3.0 with Next.js, but due to coding pattern difference in Next.js, i often need go to payload official document page for checking and copy paste content into my IDE (vscode) to make sure my IDE understand context.

Is it possible to have Payload CMS Doc MCP, either a full hosted service or a npm package that i can directly put in my .vscode/mcp.json to power up my github copilot or other tools?

https://github.com/nanameru/Next.js-Docs-MCP provide a quite simple example to begin with.

Thank you for reading

Additional Details

[andershermansen]

No MCP yet, but you can use llms.txt is used to give information to the AI about payload cms docs.
See #13384

You can start your prompt with:

#fetch https://payloadcms.com/llms-full.txt

then copilot will consider the payload cms docs and know how to solve different things.

[DiegoGonzalezCruz]

This would be a great idea, and it has become industry standard.

[romanholzner]

Agree, completely industry standard and crucial for agentic development

[zubricks]

That’s certainly an interesting idea—thanks for suggesting it!

Have you tried using the Payload skill to bridge this gap?

If you have used it, we’d be interested to hear whether you found any drawbacks or areas where it was lacking. In particular, were there cases where access to a searchable, always-current version of the full documentation through MCP would have been more helpful?