Archex ships a 17-tool local MCP server for repo-scale code context
tom_mathews · reddit · 2026-07-23
archex is a stdio MCP server for deterministic, repo-scale code context. Instead of raw search hits, it gives agents structural bundles with a receipt covering freshness, skipped candidates, and completeness.
The server exposes 17 tools, including:
- query/scout for token-budgeted context bundles
- symbol and file-outline lookups
- graph tools for neighbors, paths, stats, and hubs
The repo compares archex with cocoindex-code and Graphify on the same 19-task benchmark, reporting required-file recall of 0.95 vs 0.32 vs 0.70 and cold-start of 0 ms vs 4.7 s vs 937 ms. It also ships install-client targets for six clients, optional non-blocking hooks for five of them, Apache 2.0 licensing, 3,619 tests, and tagged PyPI releases through v0.19.2.
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