harshithsunku

MCP Gtags Server — AI skill for Claude Code

AI community

Indexed code navigation for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client) — replaces grep scans with GNU Global (gtags) lookups.

How to install MCP Gtags Server

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open harshithsunku/mcp-gtags-server and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What MCP Gtags Server does

Indexed code navigation for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client) — replaces grep scans with GNU Global (gtags) lookups. ~100x faster, radically less context noise. One-line no-sudo install, everything in user space.

Alternatives in AI

Xerj — Local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents 12.5k ★
Oleafly — A powerful live collaborative LaTeX, Typst & Markdown editor with shared cursors, comments, cloud sync, and AI 243 ★
Semble Rs — Fast, AI-agent-native code search in Rust — hybrid BM25 + semantic, Tree-sitter AST chunking, dependency & imp 210 ★

README

mcp-gtags-server

**Stop letting your AI agent grep. Give it an index.**

[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/mcp-gtags-server)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-gtags-server/) [![CI](https://github.com/harshithsunku/mcp-gtags-server/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/harshithsunku/mcp-gtags-server/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [![Kernel eval](https://github.com/harshithsunku/mcp-gtags-server/actions/workflows/eval.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/harshithsunku/mcp-gtags-server/actions/workflows/eval.yml) [![Python 3.10+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green.svg)](LICENSE) [![MCP](https://img.shields.io/badge/protocol-MCP-8A2BE2)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) [![Powered by GNU Global](https://img.shields.io/badge/powered%20by-GNU%20Global-orange)](https://www.gnu.org/software/global/) [![Install in Cursor](https://img.shields.io/badge/Cursor-one--click%20install-black)](https://cursor.com/en/install-mcp?name=gtags&config=eyJjb21tYW5kIjoidXZ4IiwiYXJncyI6WyJtY3AtZ3RhZ3Mtc2VydmVyIl19)

mcp-name: io.github.harshithsunku/mcp-gtags-server

# If you don't have uv yet (one-time, no sudo):
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

{ "mcpServers": { "gtags": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["mcp-gtags-server"] } } }

*One user-level config entry, no sudo, no pre-installed anything — the whole toolchain installs itself into user space on first use, and every repo you open is served automatically.*

Every AI coding agent — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, you name it — answers *"where is this function defined?"* the same way: **grep the entire tree**. On a million-line C/C++ codebase that's a full scan per question, and the output is a firehose: every comment, string literal, and unrelated match, dumped straight into the model's context window.

**mcp-gtags-server** replaces those scans with indexed lookups powered