# CICADA MCP Server

Code intelligence MCP server for 17+ programming languages.

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## Status

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## Connect

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.

### Most discussed

### "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](https://github.com/wende/cicada/issues/232) · 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
```sh
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
```python
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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