git-repo-analyzer-mcp

git-repo-analyzer-mcp is a local MCP server that exposes lightweight Git history analysis tools over stdio.

It is designed for MCP clients such as Codex that need to inspect a local repository without modifying it. The server shells out to the local git executable and returns structured JSON results.

Tools

The server exposes four tools:

• commit_frequency: count commits per author

• avg_diff_stats: compute average added and removed lines per commit

• blame_summary: summarize current line ownership for one file

• co_changed_files: find file pairs that are frequently changed together

Related MCP server: Git Metrics MCP Server

Requirements

• Python 3.10+ recommended

• Git installed and available on PATH

• Filesystem access to the target repositories

Install

Install the only runtime dependency:

pip install mcp

Or install from this repository:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

Start the server directly:

python .\server.py

The server uses stdio, so it is meant to be launched by an MCP client rather than used as a standalone CLI.

Register With Codex

Example:

codex mcp add git-analyzer C:\Python313\python.exe D:\GitFile\git-repo-analyzer-mcp\server.py

Adjust the Python path and repository path for your machine.

Tool Reference

commit_frequency

Counts commits by author using git log --pretty=format:%an.

Parameters:

• repo_path: path to the local Git repository

• author: optional exact author-name filter

Example:

{
  "repo_path": "D:\\GitFile\\Book-Tracker"
}

Returns:

{
  "total_commits": 4,
  "by_author": {
    "AntonyWhatsup": 4
  }
}

avg_diff_stats

Computes average added and removed lines per commit from git log --numstat.

Parameters:

• repo_path: path to the local Git repository

• author: optional exact author-name filter

Example:

{
  "repo_path": "D:\\GitFile\\Book-Tracker",
  "author": "AntonyWhatsup"
}

Returns:

{
  "commits": 4,
  "avg_added": 721.5,
  "avg_removed": 0.2
}

blame_summary

Runs git blame --line-porcelain and groups the current file's lines by author.

Parameters:

• repo_path: path to the local Git repository

• file_path: repository-relative path to the file

Example:

{
  "repo_path": "D:\\GitFile\\Book-Tracker",
  "file_path": "src/App.tsx"
}

Returns:

{
  "file": "src/App.tsx",
  "total_lines": 91,
  "by_author": {
    "AntonyWhatsup": {
      "lines": 91,
      "percent": 100.0
    }
  }
}

co_changed_files

Scans commit history and counts how often pairs of files appear in the same commit.

Parameters:

• repo_path: path to the local Git repository

• top_n: maximum number of file pairs to return, default 20

Example:

{
  "repo_path": "D:\\GitFile\\Book-Tracker",
  "top_n": 5
}

Each result item contains:

• file_a

• file_b

• times_changed_together

Behavior

• All tools analyze the current local Git history in the target repository.

• Author filtering is exact string matching against the author name Git reports.

• Git commands time out after 15 seconds.

• Git failures are surfaced as runtime errors from the server.

Limitations

• co_changed_files can be skewed by large commits that touch many files.

• blame_summary reports current blame ownership, not historical ownership over time.

• Binary files and rename edge cases are only handled as far as the underlying Git commands support them.

• This project is intentionally read-only; it does not expose repository mutation tools.