Google launches Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server in public preview
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The API serves fresh, Markdown-formatted docs for Google Cloud, Firebase, and Android via semantic and keyword search, chunking, and grounded Q&A. A gcloud CLI surface ships pre-installed in Cloud Shell across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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