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Persistent memory and pattern learning for AI coding assistants via MCP.

Call OpenAI Codex from Claude Code for independent second opinions, structured code review, and delegated coding tasks through a FastMCP plugin that drives the codex CLI safely.

Bridges the ChatGPT web UI to a local development environment over MCP, letting the model read and patch files, run real shell commands and terminals, execute tests, and control the desktop (screen, mouse, keyboard, clipboard) within user-approved folders. It adds parallel workers, goal/loop long-task control, plugin tools, and a security-hardening layer with risk-tiered shell policy, audit logging, and credential sanitization.

Enables Codex to delegate code reviews, coding tasks, image/video generation, and background investigations to Grok via MCP tools.

An MCP server that allows coding agents to search the Swift Package Index and retrieve GitHub READMEs without requiring an API key. It features comprehensive search filters for stars, platforms, and licenses, providing token-efficient responses optimized for LLM comprehension.

Enables AI coding agents to perform surgical code analysis, semantic memory, and quality enforcement via 18 specialized MCP tools, with a real-time analytics dashboard.

A task-level STDIO MCP server that lets Codex or any other MCP client hand off scoped coding jobs to an asynchronous worker agent which reads the code, edits files, and runs tests, while the client keeps ownership of planning and acceptance. Exposes submit, wait, query, follow-up, and cancel tools so multiple clients can queue and monitor tasks against a chosen project root.

Enables ChatGPT to work on a local project by reading and editing files, running shell commands, keeping terminals and desktop sessions open, and splitting work across durable workers whose context persists between tasks. Long-running work can be steered mid-flight, tracked with Goal, and carried into fresh chats via Compact & Resume.

Lets ChatGPT work directly on a local project by reading and editing files, running shell commands and tests, keeping terminals open, and using the user's desktop, all paired with an approved workspace folder. It also splits independent jobs across persistent workers that retain context, while riding the user's existing ChatGPT plan rather than Codex quota.

Enables semantic code search across projects using AI embeddings to find code by meaning rather than just text matching. Provides fast intelligent search, symbol analysis, and code similarity detection with multi-language support.

An MCP server giving coding agents context-window-aware code search and safe, atomic multi-file edits — built to cut token usage on large codebases without sacrificing correctness.

Enables AI coding agents to retrieve relevant execution context before a task, compare candidate paths, log outcomes, and search past experiences stored locally in SQLite. It lets agents reuse what worked on similar tasks and get live alerts when a run stagnates or repeats failures.

Provides TypeScript and JavaScript code refactoring operations using ts-morph, allowing AST-based symbol renaming, file/folder renaming, reference searching, and path alias removal when integrated with editor extensions like Cursor.

Exposes the four Ejentum cognitive harnesses (reasoning, code, anti-deception, memory) as MCP tools any agentic client can call. Drop-in scaffolding that catches LLM failure modes like sycophancy, hallucination, and reasoning shortcuts.

This server lets MCP clients delegate coding tasks to a locally installed Qwen Code CLI, enabling second opinions, parallel work, and clean separation from the main context.

AI code review against your team's own rules from your repository, before the pull request: two tools, review_changes and get_team_rules. Closed-source binary distributed via GitHub Releases; published in the official MCP Registry as dev.reviewgate/reviewgate.

Enables Claude Code to use GLM (Zhipu) as a cheap, full-capability subagent for file editing, code generation, and bash commands, with automatic routing between Opus and GLM based on task complexity.

Simple sequential thinking MCP in python

Enables MCP clients like Claude Code and Codex to delegate coding tasks to Cursor's CLI agent, which implements changes in the workspace and returns clean, structured results for review.

An autonomous, extensible LLM build orchestrator. Give it a repo and a goal; it decomposes the goal into tasks, edits code, and gates every change on build/tests/lint, reverting regressions. Polygot, cost-aware model selection, pluggable via entry points. Ships as an MCP server so any client can drive it in plain English.