# CodeNib MCP Server

Source-linked CodeGraph exploration, ranked search, and static navigation for coding agents.

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## Connect

Published as `codenib` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**20 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 12.

### Most discussed

### Proposal: first-class multimodal repository knowledge view

# Proposal: first-class multimodal repository knowledge view

## Motivation

The first multimodal wiki media PR added source-grounded media slots, local SVG generation, provider-neutral image generation, asset serving, and frontend rendering.

The next step is to make repository-native visual artifacts part of CodeNib's reusable repository context layer. Images and diagrams should not only decorate wiki pages; they should be compiled into persistent, source-grounded repository knowledge that wik

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/655) · 2026-08-22 · closed · 15 comments

### RFC: Expose CodeMiner backbone via MCP server

## Summary

Expose CodeMiner's backbone capabilities (semantic indexing, CodeGraph, hybrid retrieval, graph expansion, incremental patching) as MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools over stdio. This lets external agent frameworks (Codex, OpenHands, Claude Code, ADK, Gemini CLI, LangChain) leverage CodeMiner's unique infrastructure without CodeMiner needing to build its own agent orchestration.

## Motivation

CodeMiner's core value is its backbone — multi-language semantic indexing (SCIP/LSP/tree-s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/107) · 2026-04-07 · closed · 9 comments

### ci: restrict persistent runner to trusted full workflow

## Problem

`wolverine` is currently registered as a repository-level self-hosted runner for the public CodeNib repository. A fork pull request can propose a workflow that requests repository runner labels, so hosted-only workflow defaults are not an enforcement boundary. GitHub recommends against exposing reusable self-hosted runners to public repositories.

#461 separates the checked-in PR unit workflow from trusted full CI and moves release/community jobs to GitHub-hosted runners. The remaini

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/509) · 2026-08-07 · open · 4 comments

### RFC: build once, serve everywhere with Pages and artifact-backed MCP

## Summary

Make CodeNib a build-once, serve-everywhere repository-context platform. One commit-addressed artifact should support a public static Wiki, local or team MCP clients, and agent integrations without rebuilding the repository or leaking provider credentials.

This RFC extends the completed local Developer Preview in `docs/product_roadmap.md`. It does not replace the manifest-backed compiler/runtime or introduce a hosted SaaS.

## Motivation

CodeNib already provides incremental multi-v

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/415) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 4 comments

### perf(cpp): productionize native clangd query acceleration

## Summary

Track the production cutover of CodeNib's capability-scoped native clangd query path for C/C++. A local implementation demonstrates that existing clangd `.idx` files can feed provider-neutral decoded records and a graph-free `FactQueryIndex` while retaining lazy `CodeGraph` materialization.

This tracker does **not** declare the whole C++ cold-start or storage program complete. It closes the gap between a successful local vertical slice and a production-supported serving path.

## Ev

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/545) · 2026-08-10 · closed · 3 comments

### Most recent

### perf(scip): bind consumer-safe FactQueryIndex receipts

## Problem

Python and Rust FactQueryIndex v1 cleared the raw query-ready gate, but no production consumer calls it. Wiring the current `SCIPDecoderCore.decode_query_index()` directly into MCP would be incorrect:

- importing `scip_decode_core` imports `CodeGraph` and Python `igraph` before any query;
- compiler `target_dir` / `exclude_patterns` filtering happens after full graph decode and is not reflected in the native index;
- the current snapshot does not bind every source/filter input neede

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/597) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

### feat(mcp): add a bounded explore tool surface and session ledger

## Problem

The MCP server exposes low-level search and LSP tools but lacks an opt-in exploration surface that can project repeated context into stable references and report bounded session usage.

## Scope

- Add an explicit tool-surface selector without changing the default MCP surface.
- Add an explore tool that composes existing retrieval/provider capabilities.
- Track repeated returned ranges in a bounded in-memory session ledger and replace repeats with deterministic pointers.
- Add CLI/se

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/557) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

### feat(integrations): add the RepoNavigator jump contract adapter

## Problem

RepoNavigator publishes a single `jump(file_path, symbol, index?)` application contract, but CodeNib has no isolated adapter that can reuse its existing persisted SCIP occurrence or injected LSP definition signals.

## Scope

- Add a dependency-light repository provider for the published `jump` input/output contract.
- Prefer persisted semantic occurrences or an injected definition provider and disclose graph-only fallback as degraded.
- Preserve the returned definition path for chai

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/556) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

### fix(mcp): enable query-seeded LSP routes

## Problem

The shared graph-backed `lsp_route` implementation and agent skill support query-seeded fallback when no reliable symbol is known: callers pass `symbols=[]` plus the original request, and the static graph ranks matching endpoint/bridge/provider/type anchors.

The MCP wrapper silently disables that path:

```python
seeds = _coerce_symbols(symbols)
if not seeds:
    return []
```

As a result, an external MCP coding agent must already know an indexed symbol before it can use CodeNib's 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/505) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 1 comment

### fix(regex): bound MCP regex execution time

## Problem

`RegexNodeIndex` executes agent-supplied patterns with Python's backtracking `re` engine over every indexed node. MCP runs the call in a worker thread, but a pathological match can retain the GIL and cannot be cancelled reliably.

A minimal reproduction with one 20 KB node and `(a+)+$` did not complete within a two-second process timeout. This lets one tool request stall the MCP server independently of the result-count bounds.

The base wheel does not currently install a timeout-capa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/499) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 1 comment

### fix(mcp): enforce LSP navigation request bounds

## Problem

The MCP LSP-shaped tools silently rewrote or accepted invalid request budgets:

- `top_k=0` was treated as the provider default because of `top_k or default`.
- negative values were coerced to one.
- arbitrarily large values were passed through.
- symbol, path, and route query text was unbounded even though unresolved symbols and query fallback can scan the repository-wide graph.
- `lsp_route` accepted an unbounded symbols list even though its result budget is finite.

On a real SCIP

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/497) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 1 comment

### fix(mcp): validate direct search budgets and empty queries

## Problem

Direct MCP search routes did not share the bounded request contract used by planned search. Blank queries could dump an index, negative `top_k` values used Python slicing semantics, and arbitrarily large query text could be sent to retrieval or embedding providers.

On current `main`, `top_k=-1` returns all but the final regex result and still returns a BM25 result; blank regex and BM25 queries expose the indexed corpus. Semantic and Zoekt routes accepted the same unbounded inputs.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sysevol-ai/CodeNib/issues/495) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 1 comment

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