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ivygrep MCP Server

Local code search and task context packs for coding agents

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Published as https://github.com/bvolpato/ivygrep/releases/download/v1.2.12/ivygrep-mcp-v1.2.12.mcpb on mcpb. Runs locally.

Known issues

8 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 5.

Most discussed

[Bug]: regex search ignores type and context options

What happened?

CLI, MCP, and Web accept type/context options for regex search, but DaemonRequest::RegexSearch and local regex implementation carry neither field.

Minimal reproduction

ig --regex --type markdown --context 10 --json --limit 1 \
  'pub fn regex_search' .

Observed Rust file src/regex_search.rs with start_line == end_line. Both Markdown filter and context 10 were ignored.

Expected behavior

Regex mode honors same documented type filter and context cont

Read the thread · 2026-08-04 · closed · 0 comments

MCP: keep coding-agent indexes fresh and simplify setup

Problem

An MCP-only coding-agent session can auto-index a workspace but does not keep a watcher alive. Edits made after the first query can therefore remain absent until another CLI operation reconciles the index. On Windows, daemon auto-spawn also rejects the packaged ig.exe filename.

The agent setup documentation has drifted across clients, and release installation requires too many manual steps.

Reproduction

  1. Start ig --mcp with an isolated IVYGREP_HOME.
  2. Call ig_search

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 0 comments

P1: MCP server reloads the neural embedding model on every request

Performance (P1)

src/mcp.rs::execute_ivygrep_search calls create_model(false) on every ig_search request. serve_stdio is a long-lived process, so this reconstructs the Candle/ONNX model (load tokenizer + weights) per call — hundreds of ms of avoidable latency on every search, plus memory churn.

The daemon already loads the model once into an Arc<OnceLock<..>> (DaemonState.lazy_model) and cached_hash_model() uses the same pattern. The MCP server should cache its query model

Read the thread · 2026-05-25 · closed · 0 comments

P0: MCP auto-index embeds inline with the neural model → first query hangs on large repos; parallel MCP melts the host

Stability / Performance (P0)

The MCP auto-index path embeds every chunk with the neural ONNX model inline, on the first query. src/mcp.rs::execute_ivygrep_search does:

let model = create_model(false);            // neural (384-dim), loaded per request
...
if !workspace_is_indexed(&current_workspace) {
    let _summary = index_workspace(&current_workspace, model.as_ref())?;   // <-- neural model passed to the indexer
}

index_workspace then calls `embedding_model.embed_ba

Read the thread · 2026-05-25 · closed · 0 comments

A search panic crashes the entire MCP server (no panic isolation)

Robustness (P1)

The MCP server runs single-threaded with no panic isolation (src/mcp.rs): a panic anywhere in dispatch→execute_ivygrep_search→search unwinds through serve_stdio and crashes the whole MCP session. (The daemon isolates each connection in a tokio task; MCP does not.) Wrap tool-call handling in catch_unwind and return a JSON-RPC error.

Read the thread · 2026-05-23 · closed · 0 comments

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