Install Indexed

pipx install indexed

Initialize Your Workspace

indexed config init --yes

✓ Created config at ~/.indexed/config.toml

This creates the ~/.indexed/ directory where all your collections and configuration will live.

Index a Folder

Point Indexed at any folder with documents — your project's docs/ directory, a folder of markdown files, or even just a directory with a few READMEs.

indexed index create files -c my-docs -p ./docs

Indexing collection 'my-docs'...
  Parsed 12 documents
  Created 47 chunks
  Generated embeddings
✓ Collection 'my-docs' created (47 chunks, 3.2 MB)

Search It

indexed index search "authentication guide"

Results for 'authentication guide' (top 5):

1. [my-docs] auth-setup.md (chunk 2/4)
   Score: 0.82
   ...To configure SSO authentication, first set up your identity
   provider with the following SAML settings...

2. [my-docs] onboarding.md (chunk 5/8)
   Score: 0.74
   ...New team members should request access through the auth
   portal at auth.internal.company.com...

Notice how the search found documents about "SSO authentication" and "access through the auth portal" — even though we searched for "authentication guide." That's semantic search at work.

Connect to Claude Desktop

Now make your indexed knowledge available to Claude Desktop via MCP.

Add this to your Claude Desktop config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "indexed": {
      "command": "indexed",
      "args": ["mcp", "run"]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "indexed": {
      "command": "indexed",
      "args": ["mcp", "run"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Now try asking Claude something that your docs would know:

Claude will use Indexed's MCP tools to search your collection and answer using your actual documentation.