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trace-mcp MCP Server

Framework-aware code intelligence: 81 languages, 87 frameworks, 169 tools, 40–50% fewer tokens

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Connect

Published as trace-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

34 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

Plugin support: marshmallow

Plugin request

Package: marshmallow (==4.3.0) Category: framework Priority: medium

This dependency is detected in my project but has no trace-mcp plugin coverage.

Expected

A dedicated plugin that extracts framework-specific edges and metadata for marshmallow.

Context

Read the thread · 2026-08-27 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Plugin support: click

Plugin request

Package: click (==8.3.3) Category: infra Priority: medium

This dependency is detected in my project but has no trace-mcp plugin coverage.

Expected

A dedicated plugin that extracts framework-specific edges and metadata for click.

Context

Read the thread · 2026-08-27 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Output is too verbose by default

Right before I finish a session, I have been asking my agent (claude) to analyze their use of trace-mcp and tell me if the output was too verbose.

Here is what I have got so far:

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

MCP server tools unavailable in session despite valid registered project + .mcp.json

Summary

In a Claude Code session working on an unrelated project (direct-cli), none of trace-mcp's MCP tools (search, get_symbol, get_outline, find_usages) were available — searching for them returned nothing, and only the PreToolUse hook guard was active, blocking plain grep/subagent calls with a "use trace-mcp instead" message. Read was eventually allowed through as an explicit fallback, with the guard self-reporting:

trace-mcp server not running (no heartbeat sentinel). A

Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · closed · external user · 4 comments

Can't get outline of code

Have installed and everything seems to be running great, but I keep getting into this loop of the mcp cant read code (or cant find any, not quite sure) and getting instructions on to use the mcp, this is part of the output:

Bash See Permalink mapping config in Module.cs IN grep -n "Permalink" /Users/peppe/Dev/piranha.core/data/Piranha.Data.EF/Module.cs

OUT Use trace-mcp instead of shell commands for code exploration. Trace-mcp [get_outline]data/Piranha.Data.EF/Module.cs OUT {"error":{"code":"N

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Most recent

Want to add your plugin to awesome-ai-plugins?

Hey, we maintain awesome-ai-plugins and came across trace-mcp. It looks like a great fit alongside the other claude code extensions, and we'd love to include it.

Would you be up for submitting it? The whole submission is a small PR adding one entry to README.md; CONTRIBUTING.md shows the format.

Projects listed there can also receive a public profi

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

File watcher ignores .gitignore, runs full indexing pipeline on gitignored log/DB files every debounce cycle

Expected vs Actual

Expected: the file watcher skips .gitignored paths before running them through the indexing pipeline — zero pipeline passes for a gitignored file.

Actual: the watcher's own ignore filter (TraceignoreMatcher + config.exclude) does not consult .gitignore at all, so gitignored files run through the full indexing pipeline on every change event and are only rejected at the end of the pipeline (File too large, skipping / Binary file detected, skipping). Fo

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

init: no way to write MCP config to project-scope .mcp.json instead of global ~/.claude.json

Summary

trace-mcp init always writes the MCP client configuration to the global config file (e.g. ~/.claude.json for claude-code), even though the internal getConfigPath resolver already knows about a project-scoped path (<root>/.mcp.json). There's no flag to choose project scope.

Why this matters

Some workflows want trace-mcp registered for one project only, without touching global Claude Code config that affects every other project on the machine (other projects, other r

Read the thread · 2026-08-02 · closed · external user · 0 comments

README: built-in benchmark_project tool is undiscoverable — no clear 'run this now' path

Problem

The README's "Token reduction" section (lines ~157-220) shows impressive numbers (92.8% reduction) but never makes it obvious that:

  1. trace-mcp ships a working benchmark you can run right now on your own project
  2. The exact command to do it (npx trace-mcp benchmark .) is buried under a collapsed <details><summary>Methodology</summary> block that most readers won't open
  3. There's no beginner-friendly explanation of what the benchmark actually measures, how to interpret the

Read the thread · 2026-08-01 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Indexer crashes with uncaught ENAMETOOLONG on self-referential directory symlinks (Ansible Molecule roles)

Summary

trace-mcp index <dir> crashes with an uncaught ENAMETOOLONG when the project tree contains a directory symlink that resolves to one of its own ancestors (a filesystem cycle). The indexer follows the symlink and descends into it without cycle detection or a depth cap, so fs.scandir eventually receives a path that exceeds PATH_MAX and throws. Because the rejection is unhandled, the whole process dies via triggerUncaughtException.

This makes it impossible to index any rep

Read the thread · 2026-07-01 · closed · external user · 1 comment

The daemon keeps getting re-installed

I decided that I was going to use, at least for now, just the trace-mcp serve in each Claude session; therefore I removed trace-mcp from running as a daemon in MacOS (LaunchAgents). Nevertheless, it kept getting reinstalled.

The chain is:

Claude Code session starts → ~/.claude/hooks/trace-mcp-session-start.sh runs The hook calls trace-mcp memory wake-up That CLI command calls tryAutoSpawnDaemon (line 615 of lifecycle.ts) to ensure the HTTP daemon is up Spawning serve-http calls `ensure

Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

Topology scanning is synchronous, blocking the event loop

For large code bases, the topology scanning blocks the event loop, the MCP becomes unresponsive

Read the thread · 2026-06-02 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

See all 17 reports Pod holds for trace-mcp — of 34 qualified upstream.

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