# Code Context Engine MCP Server

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**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Code Context Engine yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `code-context-engine` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

### Most discussed

### cce serve crashes on mcp SDK 2.x: 'Server' object has no attribute 'list_tools'

### Summary

`cce serve` crashes on startup with the `mcp` Python SDK at 2.x, so a fresh install produces a non-functional MCP server. The failure is silent from the agent's perspective — Claude Code reports the server never connected and falls back to grep/read, so the tool appears installed and does nothing.

### Reproduce

```
uv venv --python 3.12 venv
uv pip install --python ./venv/bin/python "code-context-engine[local]"
cd <a-project> && ./venv/bin/cce init --agent claude
./venv/bin/cce se

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/152) · 2026-08-02 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### cce init writes an unquoted Windows path into settings.local.json, breaking the SessionStart hook

### What happened?

On Windows, `cce init` writes an **unquoted** absolute path into `.claude/settings.local.json`:

```json
"command": "C:\\Users\\<user>\\.local\\bin\\cce.exe status --oneline"
```

Claude Code runs hook commands through bash (Git Bash on Windows). Unquoted backslashes are consumed as escape characters, so the path collapses and every session start prints:

```
SessionStart:startup hook error
Failed with non-blocking status code: /usr/bin/bash: line 1: C:Users<user>.localbincce

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/145) · 2026-07-27 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Extreme (300x) load / system-wide freeze with multiple cce serve instances

### What happened?

I run often around 8 AIs simultaneously against various git projects each having `cce init` done, but even with just 1 or 2 active Codex / Claude Code sessions (rest are not working), CCE often goes into spiral and brings whole system effectively into a freeze state for 10-20 minutes, until eventually the load goes back to normal levels.

This total system lockup freeze has been happening on two environments and after reboot / system wide cleanup and updates done so I doubt i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/139) · 2026-07-22 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Larger semantic chunks sent to Ollama embeddings cause indexing failure

### What happened?

CCE aborts indexing because it sends oversized semantic chunks directly to Ollama’s `/api/embed` endpoint.
NOTE: This was perfectly valid Go code, around 70 lines, just contained enough longer type names / strings to blow up chunks to oversized.

During `cce init`, indexing starts normally, but the first embedding batch fails with:

```text
Embedding failed: Client error '400 Bad Request' for url 'http://localhost:11434/api/embed'
```

After locally patching CCE to print the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/86) · 2026-05-18 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Setup / first-run issues: broken post-commit hook, model download stalls, /tmp cache wipe, silent lazy index

### What happened?

Filing as a group because they're all in the install / first-run / setup path and I hit them in sequence while setting CCE up. Used Claude Code as a debug pair to dig into each one. Will split if you'd prefer, just felt spammy to file as five separate issues.

**1. `cce init` installs a `post-commit` hook that errors silently on every commit.**

The hook script written to `.git/hooks/post-commit` calls:

```sh
cce index --changed-only >/dev/null 2>&1 &
```

But in v0.4.19, `c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/67) · 2026-05-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### mcp 2.0.0 breaks the MCP server: 'Server' object has no attribute 'list_tools' (unbounded mcp>=1.0)

## Summary

`mcp 2.0.0` was published today and removed the decorator-based registration API. `pyproject.toml` requires `mcp>=1.0` with no upper bound, so any fresh resolve now installs 2.0.0 and `ContextEngineMCP` fails to construct.

This is not a soft degradation — it raises in `__init__`, so the MCP server does not start at all.

## Evidence

`main` CI has been red since earlier today. Latest runs on `main`:

| run | date | commit | result |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI | 2026-07-28 | `675636d8` |

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/147) · 2026-07-28 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### HTTP mode lets loopback clients mutate the index without auth or CSRF checks

## Severity
High - local browser-origin write boundary / index poisoning.

## Duplicate check
Searched existing issues for `loopback HTTP CSRF auth ingest CCE_API_TOKEN`; no duplicate returned.

## Evidence
HTTP mode is a documented server mode:

- `src/context_engine/cli.py:2656` adds `cce serve --http`.
- `src/context_engine/cli.py:2657` defaults to `--host 127.0.0.1`.
- `src/context_engine/cli.py:2658` defaults to port `8765`.
- `src/context_engine/cli.py:2665` says bearer auth is required on

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/129) · 2026-07-06 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### cce init failing with segmenetation fault 11 or bus error: 10

### What happened?

Running `cce init --agent codex` reliably causes `Segmentation fault: 11` error:

```
Detecting embedding backend... ready (fastembed, 384-d, BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5)
  Ollama not running — using truncation compression.
  Tip: ollama pull phi3:mini for LLM summarization

  ✓ Git hooks installed  (3 hooks, auto-updates on commit)
  ✓ MCP server already configured for OpenAI Codex
    ~/.codex/config.toml  →  [mcp_servers.cce-salus-api-7d2957]
  ✓ .gitignore updated with CCE ent

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/114) · 2026-07-01 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### cce init is not generating anything for codex

I have claude and codex installed, ~/.codex exist and works perfectly on it's own.
Running cce init didn't generate anything codex related nor changes any codex config.
Codex itself couldn't fix this issue.
```
  ✓ Git hooks installed  (3 hooks, auto-updates on commit)
  ✓ MCP server registered in .mcp.json
  ✓ CLAUDE.md created with CCE instructions
  ✓ SessionStart hook installed for CCE status
  ✓ Memory hooks installed  (5 hooks: SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, PostToolUse, Stop, SessionEnd)

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine/issues/24) · 2026-05-04 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 12 reports Pod holds for Code Context Engine](/mcp/code-context-engine/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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