# gus-mcp

> Relevant-context retrieval for AI coding agents, over MCP and CLI

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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/gus-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Sudhansriram Manibalan
- homepage: https://github.com/SUD747/gus
- repository: https://github.com/SUD747/gus
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude-code, code-search, codex, cursor, embeddings, mcp, retrieval
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:gus-mcp

### Description (declared)

<h1 align="center">Gus</h1>

<p align="center">
  <em>Your agent doesn't need the whole file. It needs the six lines that answer the question.</em>
</p>

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-server%20%2B%20CLI-111111?style=flat-square" alt="MCP server and CLI">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/runs-100%25%20local-111111?style=flat-square" alt="Runs 100% local">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-111111?style=flat-square" alt="Python 3.10+">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-111111?style=flat-square" alt="MIT license">
</p>

<p align="center">
  <strong>68% less context per question &middot; the right code in the top 5, 4 times in 5 &middot; no API keys, no services</strong><br>
  <sub>Measured on 33 held-out, hand-checked questions about <a href="https://github.com/encode/httpx">httpx</a> and <a href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky">ky</a> at pinned commits, with the default model, against reading the one file that holds the answer. Tokens are real tiktoken counts. When Gus misses, the file read is still counted. The optional <code>quality</code> model puts the right code <em>first</em> 70% of the time instead of 45%. <a href="https://github.com/SUD747/gus/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#evaluation">How it's measured</a>.</sub>
</p>

<p align="center">
  Wires into <strong>Claude Code</strong> &middot; <strong>Cursor</strong> &middot; <strong>Codex CLI</strong> &middot; <strong>Antigravity CLI</strong> &middot; any MCP client &middot; any shell
</p>

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You ask your agent where cookies are persisted between requests. It opens `httpx/_client.py`: 2,019 lines,
about 13,700 tokens, to find a six-line property. Then it does the same thing for the next question, and the
one after that, until the context window is full of code it read once and never needed.

Gus is a local context-retrieval layer for AI coding agents. The agent asks a question and gets back only the
functions, classes, doc section…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/gus-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-15T16:20:00.038Z)

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