# jCodemunch MCP MCP Server

Token-efficient code exploration via tree-sitter AST parsing. 70+ languages, 86-99% token savings.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `jcodemunch-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**221 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

### Windows watcher incremental reindex is ~10s while MCP index_file takes ~0.2s

## Description

On Windows, the filesystem watcher (`jcodemunch-mcp watch-all` or `jcodemunch-mcp watch`) detects a modified file immediately, but updating the jCodeMunch index after a single-file change takes around 10 seconds.

Calling the `index_file` MCP tool directly for the exact same file completes in approximately **0.2 seconds**.

This seems to indicate that the bottleneck is somewhere in the watcher → incremental indexing path rather than in parsing/indexing the changed file itself.

#

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/557) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 12 comments

### Add an adaptive, generation-safe data path for large repositories

JCodeMunch currently pays two related large-repository costs in several paths:

1. A tool can hydrate the complete code index even when it needs only a symbol, file,
   or small candidate set.
2. Semantic tools can load and score the complete embedding collection through Python
   objects even when a smaller fetch or a packed, vectorized pass would be sufficient.

The strongest design I found is one adaptive pipeline, not one global cache and not
NumPy everywhere. Each request should read only w

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/398) · 2026-08-01 · closed · outside contributor · 9 comments

### BUG: get_file_outline()

Hi,

This is not a proper bug report, I will update it at a later time.
For me (probable config dependent) i get a lot of: "The outline came back empty" messages from the models (Claude, GPT etc).

Like this.

```
"jcm- get_file_outline (PRJ)(repo: "local/PRJ-acfbc7e7", file_paths:
  ["tools/Labels/AppLabels.py","appGUI/NewEmailWidget.py","tools/MessageViewer.py"])
  ⎿  #MUNCH/1 tool=get_file_outline enc=fo1

     repo=local/PRJ-acfbc7e7 __tables="s:symbols:id|name|kind|signature|line|end_line|p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/319) · 2026-05-29 · closed · outside contributor · 6 comments

### PyPI install unavailable — install via git+https or the GitHub-release wheel

This was working until today. Both pip and uvx can't find the library now
```bash
❯ uvx jcodemunch-mcp config --check
  × No solution found when resolving tool dependencies:
  ╰─▶ Because there are no versions of jcodemunch-mcp and you require jcodemunch-mcp, we can conclude that your requirements are unsatisfiable.

❯ python -m pip install jcodemunch-mcp==1.108.20
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement jcodemunch-mcp==1.108.20 (from versions: none)

❯ python -m pip insta

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/308) · 2026-05-19 · closed · external user · 24 comments

### Config file ".jcodemunch.jsonc" is ignored in project

## Steps to reproduce:

( system: Ubuntu )

1. Create file ".jcodemunch.jsonc" in project root with content like this:

```
{
    "extra_ignore_patterns": ["docs/legacy/"]
}
```

2. Run command:

```
jcodemunch-mcp config --check

...

Checks
  ✓ config.jsonc valid: /home/myuser/.code-index/config.jsonc
  ✓ index storage writable: /home/myuser/.code-index
...
```
^ as you see the file ".jcodemunch.jsonc" is not mentioned - so that is already a red flag

3. Try to index with DEBUG log level:

```

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/300) · 2026-05-14 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### Most recent

### Dead-code axes degenerate on Node/TS repos: v2 returns [] without entry points; find_dead_code counts docs/lockfile artifacts

**jcodemunch-mcp 1.108.305, SQLite backend, TypeScript/React repo**

Two related problems make the dead-code axes unusable on this repo:

1. `get_dead_code_v2` returns `dead_symbols: []` with `signal_warning: "2 of 3 signals do not discriminate on this repository and were not counted"` and `framework_warning: "No standard entry points detected (e.g. main.py, app.py, __main__.py)"`. Entry-point detection appears Python-only (main.py/app.py/__main__.py); for a Node/Next.js repo no entry points are

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/562) · 2026-08-28 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### find_references: are type-only imports indexed? suspected cross-file reference misses for TS types

**jcodemunch-mcp 1.108.305, SQLite backend, TypeScript 5.x repo**

During refactor planning we use `find_references`/`check_references` to enumerate cross-file usages of exported types before moving them. Two of three spot-checked identifiers resolved correctly (`CreoJobBuild`: 2 refs found; `LayoutGestureBinding`: 2 refs found, third hit is the defining file). But a prior audit observed missed cross-file **type-only** references for `CreoJobBuild`, `DraftHistoryEntry` (defined in `src/hooks/Fra

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/560) · 2026-08-28 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Coupling instability counts framework entry points (Next.js route.ts) as unstable=1.0 modules

**jcodemunch-mcp 1.108.305, SQLite backend, Next.js App Router repo**

Coupling/instability treats framework entry points as ordinary modules. In this repo, **203 of 366 unstable files are `src/app/api/**/route.ts` files**, and **126 of those have zero importers** — instability 1.0 by construction (Ce/(Ca+Ce) with Ca=0), purely because Next.js registers them as HTTP endpoints. No code ever imports a route handler, so the import-graph formula cannot classify them as stable.

`find_dead_code` alre

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/561) · 2026-08-28 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### search_ast returns zero matches for ALL languages — encoder schema declares 'results' but tool returns 'matches' (schema/producer key mismatch)

## Summary

`search_ast` returns zero matches for **every language and every preset/category**, not just C#. The compact encoder schema (`encoding/schemas/search_ast.py`) declares table key `results` and scalar `result_count`, but the tool (`tools/search_ast.py`) returns `matches` and `total_matches`. The encoder's `response.get("results", [])` finds nothing and silently produces an empty table.

This is the same class of bug as the `search_text` #246 fix (flat columns declared, nested/different

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/553) · 2026-08-26 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Counter `order` gate rejections return an error body with `isError=False`, and have since v1.108.74 shipped the contract

## The one thing that is wrong

`order` refuses a call two ways: the action is not in the catalog, or the action
changes state and `allow_state_change` was not passed. Both return a JSON body
whose only key is `error`. Neither sets `isError`.

```json
{"error": "Unknown action 'no_such_action_xyz'. Call 'menu' (optionally with a query) to browse."}
```

An MCP client that branches on `isError`, which is exactly what v1.108.74 added
the flag for, reads that as a successful call whose r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/552) · 2026-08-26 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

### `_call_ok` starts true and three of four error exits never clear it, so failed calls record `ok=1`

## The one thing that is wrong

`_call_tool_impl` tracks the outcome of a call in a local flag, `_call_ok`,
initialised to `True` at
[`server.py:5456`](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/blob/610eb2cfdad865688a197ee7d899d3bded8f5273/src/jcodemunch_mcp/server.py#L5449-L5456).
The `finally` at the bottom persists that flag as the `ok` column
([`server.py:7198-7209`](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/blob/610eb2cfdad865688a197ee7d899d3bded8f5273/src/jcodemunch_mcp/server.py

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/551) · 2026-08-26 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### `from . import <sibling>` resolves to `__init__.py`, so 20 live files in this repo are reported dead

## The one thing that is wrong

`from . import receipts` in `evidence/producers.py` is a dependency on
`evidence/receipts.py`. JCodeMunch records it as a dependency on
`evidence/__init__.py` instead, and the edge to `receipts.py` is never built.

The shipped source uses that form 49 times. Re-indexing this repository with
only the import specifier changed, nothing else, drops
`find_dead_code(granularity="file")` from 42 dead files to 22. The other 20,
`runtime_identity.py` and nine `par

[Read the thread](https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/issues/550) · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for jCodemunch MCP](/mcp/jcodemunch-mcp/issues) — of 221 qualified upstream.

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