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Semantic code search for AI — ripgrep speed with tree-sitter AST parsing.
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jcodemunch-mcp is an open-source dev tools project by jgravelle (jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp on GitHub). It has 2,740 GitHub stars and 372 forks, is released under the NOASSERTION license, and was last updated on GitHub on 8 October 2026.
Point it at a repo your agent explores often, where whole-file reading is burning context and cost.
Install with uv tool, or run zero-install via uvx.
Run jcodemunch-mcp init to auto-detect and configure your MCP clients and prompt policy, or add it manually (e.g. claude mcp add).
Ask your agent to index the repo, then find a function by description and fetch only its source.
get_symbol_source returns the exact function body, byte-precise, instead of the whole file.
find_importers, get_blast_radius, get_call_hierarchy, find_dead_code, get_changed_symbols, get_hotspots and search_ast answer questions grep cannot.
assemble_task_context and plan_turn classify intent and gather the right symbols under one token budget.
check_edit_safe, check_delete_safe, check_rename_safe and get_pr_risk_profile return explicit verdicts, including null when the index cannot support a claim.
Calibrated confidence scores, freshness flags, coverage contracts on absence claims, and automatic secret redaction before content reaches the LLM.
Tested configs for many clients (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Cline, Windsurf, Gemini CLI and more) and 70+ tree-sitter languages, with monorepo support.
Clone jCodeMunch if you want the source; the normal install is step 2.
git clone https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp.git
cd jcodemunch-mcpInstall the server and let init configure your detected MCP clients.
uv tool install jcodemunch-mcp
jcodemunch-mcp initThe zero-install alternative from the README uses uvx.
claude mcp add -s user jcodemunch -- uvx jcodemunch-mcpjgravelle maintains it; the product site is jcodemunch.com.
The README says it is free for personal use, with commercial licenses for using it to make money. Check the license terms before commercial use — GitHub lists the license as NOASSERTION.
The server itself is a local retrieval tool; your agent's model costs are separate. Some optional extras use AI summaries per provider, per the README.
Both give agents AST-based code search. jCodeMunch focuses on symbol-exact retrieval and structural/safety tooling for MCP clients; ccc is a CLI-first engine with Skill/MCP modes and local embeddings.
uv tool install jcodemunch-mcp, run jcodemunch-mcp init, then ask your agent to index the repo and fetch a symbol.
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