# semantic-code-mcp

> Local MCP server for semantic code search

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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/semantic-code-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.4.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:semantic-code-mcp

### Description (declared)

# semantic-code-mcp

MCP server that provides semantic code search for Claude Code. Instead of iterative grep/glob, it indexes your codebase with embeddings and returns ranked results by meaning.

Supports **Python**, **Rust**, and **Markdown** — more languages planned.

## How It Works

```
Claude Code ──(MCP/STDIO)──▶ semantic-code-mcp server
                                    │
                    ┌───────────────┼───────────────┐
                    ▼               ▼               ▼
              AST Chunker      Embedder        LanceDB
             (tree-sitter)  (sentence-trans)  (vectors)
```

1. **Chunking** — tree-sitter parses source files into functions, classes, methods, structs, traits, markdown sections, etc.
2. **Embedding** — sentence-transformers encodes each chunk (all-MiniLM-L6-v2, 384d)
3. **Storage** — vectors stored in LanceDB (embedded, like SQLite)
4. **Search** — hybrid semantic + keyword search with recency boosting

Indexing is incremental (mtime-based) and uses `git ls-files` for fast file discovery. The embedding model loads lazily on first query.

## Installation

### macOS / Windows

PyPI ships CPU-only torch on these platforms, so no extra flags are needed (~1.7GB install).

```bash
uvx semantic-code-mcp
```

**Claude Code integration:**

```bash
claude mcp add --scope user semantic-code -- uvx semantic-code-mcp
```

### Linux

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Without the `--index` flag, PyPI installs CUDA-bundled torch (~3.5GB). Unless you need GPU acceleration (you don't — embeddings run on CPU), use the command below to get the CPU-only build (~1.7GB).

```bash
uvx --index pytorch-cpu=https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu semantic-code-mcp
```

**Claude Code integration:**

```bash
claude mcp add --scope user semantic-code -- \
  uvx --index pytorch-cpu=https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu semantic-code-mcp
```

<details>
<summary>Claude Desktop / other MCP clients (JSON config)</summary>

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "semantic-code": {
      …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (0.825, derived)
- data.database (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/semantic-code-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T12:21:26.777Z)

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