code-repo-mcp

An MCP server that exposes glob, grep and list_repos tools over a folder containing multiple git repositories. Point it at a directory where you mount (or check out) several repos side by side, and any MCP client can search across them by name — without needing local filesystem/shell access itself.

Runs as a single npm bin and serves the MCP Streamable HTTP transport (stateless mode), so it works equally well as a personal local tool or as a small shared service.

Install & run

npm install -g code-repo-mcp
code-repo-mcp --root /path/to/repos

Or without installing globally:

npx code-repo-mcp --root /path/to/repos

Options

The server exposes a single MCP endpoint at http://<host>:<port>/mcp, plus GET /healthz for a basic liveness check.

Related MCP server: mcp-file-lens

Repo layout

--root should point at a folder whose immediate subdirectories are git repositories (i.e. each contains a .git directory or file), e.g.:

/path/to/repos/
├── service-a/   (git repo)
├── service-b/   (git repo)
└── shared-lib/  (git repo)

Only these first-level subdirectories are considered repos; other files or non-git directories under --root are ignored by list_repos and rejected by glob/grep.

Tools

• list_repos — no arguments. Returns the names of all git repos found directly under --root. Use these names as the repo argument for the other tools.

• glob — { repo, pattern, ignore?, dot?, limit? }. Runs a fast-glob pattern scoped to that repo and returns matching relative file paths.

• grep — { repo, pattern, glob?, caseInsensitive?, fixedStrings?, contextLines?, maxMatches? }. Runs ripgrep (bundled via @vscode/ripgrep, no system install required) scoped to that repo and returns { file, line, text } matches.

All repo access is confined to the resolved repo directory: repo names must be a single path segment (no /, ..), and results that would resolve outside the repo are filtered out as defense in depth.

Connecting a client

Point any MCP-over-HTTP client at http://127.0.0.1:3900/mcp. For example, in Claude Code's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "code-repo-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:3900/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Docker

Prebuilt images are published to GitHub Container Registry on every push to main and on version tags (see .github/workflows/docker-publish.yml):

docker pull ghcr.io/janstuemmel/code-repo-mcp:latest

Or build it yourself:

docker build -t code-repo-mcp .
docker run -d --name code-repo-mcp \
  -p 3900:3900 \
  -v /path/to/repos:/repos:ro \
  code-repo-mcp

The image mounts the repo folder at /repos by default (override with --root/CODE_REPO_ROOT if you need a different path inside the container). Mounting it :ro is recommended — the server only ever reads. It binds to 0.0.0.0:3900 inside the container so -p <host-port>:3900 is all you need; override HOST/PORT env vars if you need something else.

Note: the image is based on node:22-slim (glibc), not Alpine — the bundled ripgrep binary is a glibc build and won't run under musl.

Development

npm install
npm run dev -- --root /path/to/repos   # run from source via tsx
npm run build                          # compile to dist/
npm start -- --root /path/to/repos     # run the compiled build