Documentation

AI coding assistants

An assistant writing PivotGrid code from memory guesses prop names, and a prop that does not exist does nothing: no error, no effect. Two things let it look the names up instead:

  • The MCP server @kanunilabs/mcp: the documentation and the full API reference, searchable by the assistant while it works.
  • The skill: one instruction file the assistant reads when a task involves the grid — which package to install, the licence key, the worker, Next.js, upgrading.

Neither runs an AI model or calls one. The server runs on your machine and makes no network requests: the docs are inside the package.

The MCP server

It covers PivotGrid and DataGrid both, and carries the docs of the release it was published with.

ToolWhat the assistant gets
search_docsGuide sections and API members matching a question in words
get_docOne page, or one section of it, as Markdown
get_apiOne exported symbol, or one member: PivotLayoutState.showColumnTotals
list_docsThe packages with their versions, the guides, the exported symbols
get_changesWhat changed between two versions, upgrade notes first

Claude Code

claude mcp add kanunilabs -- npx -y @kanunilabs/mcp

On Windows outside WSL, npx needs a cmd /c in front:

claude mcp add kanunilabs -- cmd /c npx -y @kanunilabs/mcp

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json in the project, or to ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanunilabs": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@kanunilabs/mcp"] }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "kanunilabs": { "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@kanunilabs/mcp"] }
  }
}

Other assistants

Any MCP client that starts a local (stdio) server works: the command is npx and the arguments are -y @kanunilabs/mcp.

To check it is connected, ask the assistant something only the reference knows, such as which members PivotLayoutState has.

The skill

npx -y @kanunilabs/mcp install-skill

This writes .claude/skills/kanunilabs-grids/SKILL.md, where Claude Code finds skills. For an assistant that reads skills from another folder, name it:

npx -y @kanunilabs/mcp install-skill path/to/skills/kanunilabs-grids

A changed copy is not overwritten; run it with --force to replace your copy with the one in the package. The skill tells the assistant to use the MCP server when it is connected, and the files below when it is not.

Without either

The same documentation is published for assistants that read the web: