# ivygrep MCP Server

Local code search and task context packs for coding agents

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## Status

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## Connect

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

```shell
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](https://github.com/bvolpato/ivygrep/issues/214) · 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](https://github.com/bvolpato/ivygrep/issues/135) · 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](https://github.com/bvolpato/ivygrep/issues/57) · 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:

```rust
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](https://github.com/bvolpato/ivygrep/issues/56) · 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](https://github.com/bvolpato/ivygrep/issues/53) · 2026-05-23 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for ivygrep](/mcp/ivygrep/issues).

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