CICADA MCP Server
Code intelligence MCP server for 17+ programming languages.
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Published as cicada-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.
Known issues
5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.
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"Language 'csharp' is not supported. Supported languages: elixir, erlang" even with cicada-scip installed
Hello,
Running on Windows 11 with python 3.12.12.
Installed cicada-mcp with uv pip install cicada-mcp
Then installed cicada-scip from source code (cicada\packages\cicada-scip) since cicada-scip is not available when calling uv pip install cicada-scip.
I get this error message when calling cicada-mcp.exe on my repository containing .sln and .csproj files:
Error during indexing: Language 'csharp' is not supported. Supported languages: elixir, erlang
Could you please advice how to troubles
Read the thread · 2026-02-04 · closed · external user · 2 comments
cicada-mcp 0.6.5 is incompatible with mcp 2.0.0 — fails to start
Environment
- cicada-mcp 0.6.5 (latest)
- mcp 2.0.0 (installed automatically as a transitive dependency)
Reproduction
uv tool install 'cicada-mcp' --with 'mcp<2' --reinstall # see "Workaround"
uv tool uninstall 'cicada-mcp'
uv tool install 'cicada-mcp' # fresh install picks up mcp 2.0.0
cicada-mcp server --watch
Actual
AttributeError: 'Tool' object has no attribute 'inputSchema'. Did you mean: 'input_schema'?
File ".../cicada/cli_ma
[Read the thread](https://github.com/wende/cicada/issues/249) · 2026-07-30 · open · external user · 1 comment
### Add Mistral-vibe support
1. MCP config to local file
2. Vibe claude.md equivalent
[Read the thread](https://github.com/wende/cicada/issues/221) · 2026-01-03 · closed · external user · 1 comment
### cicada gemini not working
Currently the `cicada gemini` updates `./.gemini/mcp.json file` meanwhile according to the Google documentation the `mcpServers` object correct location is in `./.gemini/settings.json`.
I move the conten of mcp.json to settings.json and now I can see the `cicada-mcp` in `/mcp list`
Source: https://geminicli.com/docs/get-started/configuration/#the-gemini-directory-in-your-project
[Read the thread](https://github.com/wende/cicada/issues/121) · 2025-11-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment
### MCP server doesn't reload index after reindexing - requires editor restart
## Problem
The MCP server loads the index file only once at startup and caches it in memory. When users reindex the repository (e.g., `cicada index --nlp`), the MCP server continues using the stale cached index until the editor is restarted.
## Root Cause
- `CicadaServer.__init__()` (`cicada/mcp_server.py:33-50`) loads the index once via `self.index = self._load_index()`
- It also caches `self._has_keywords = self._check_keywords_available()` based on the initial index
- The server never relo
[Read the thread](https://github.com/wende/cicada/issues/51) · 2025-11-02 · closed · 0 comments
## Firsthand observations
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