# codebase-qa-mcp

> MCP server for codebase Q&A powered by RAG — index any git repo and ask questions about the code

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/codebase-qa-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:codebase-qa-mcp

### Description (declared)

# Codebase Q&A MCP Server

An MCP server that lets AI assistants answer questions about any codebase using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Index any git repository locally, then ask natural-language questions — answers are grounded in actual source code.

Built with [FastMCP](https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp), [ChromaDB](https://www.trychroma.com/), and [sentence-transformers](https://www.sbert.net/).

## How It Works

```
┌─────────────┐     ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  AI Client   │     │         Codebase Q&A MCP Server              │
│ (Claude Code,│ MCP │                                              │
│  Claude      │◄───►│  ┌─────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌───────────┐  │
│  Desktop,    │     │  │  Load &  │─►│ Embed    │─►│ ChromaDB  │  │
│  Cursor)     │     │  │  Chunk   │  │(MiniLM)  │  │ (persist) │  │
│              │     │  └─────────┘  └──────────┘  └───────────┘  │
└─────────────┘     └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

1. **Index** — Point the server at a git repo. It reads all source files, splits them into chunks, generates embeddings with `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, and stores them in a persistent ChromaDB instance.
2. **Query** — Ask a natural-language question. The server finds the most relevant code chunks via semantic similarity and returns them with file paths and metadata.
3. **Update** — After new commits, run an incremental update that only re-indexes changed files (using `git diff`).

## Features

- **7 MCP tools** for full codebase Q&A workflow
- **Local embeddings** — no API keys needed (runs `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` on your machine)
- **Persistent storage** — ChromaDB persists indexes across sessions
- **Incremental updates** — only re-index files that changed since last commit
- **Multi-project support** — index multiple repos and switch between them
- **File filtering** — narrow queries to specific paths (e.g. only `auth`-related files)
- **30+ file types** supported (Python, JS/TS, Go, Rust, Java, C/C++,…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)
- data.vector-search (0.791, derived)
- code.testing (0.625, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/codebase-qa-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T11:31:29.586Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/codebase-qa-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/codebase-qa-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:codebase-qa-mcp