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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: codebase-brain-mcp
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: An MCP server that gives AI agents a cited, searchable memory of a codebase.
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+ Keywords: mcp,model-context-protocol,rag,code-search,ai-agents,claude,git
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+ Author: Noman Nazir
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+ Author-email: Noman Nazir <nomannazir69@gmail.com>
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+ License-Expression: MIT
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
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+ Requires-Dist: fastembed>=0.9.1
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp>=2.3.0
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+ Requires-Dist: numpy>=2.5.4
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.12
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp/issues
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # Codebase Brain MCP
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+
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+ <!-- mcp-name: io.github.Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp -->
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+ [![CI](https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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+ [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)](https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp/blob/main/LICENSE)
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+ ![Python 3.12+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.12%2B-blue)
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+
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+ An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that gives AI assistants a **cited, searchable memory of a
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+ codebase**, including its history. Point it at a local folder or a public git URL. Claude, Cursor or any MCP client
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+ can then answer questions about the code with exact `path:start-end` citations.
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+ ![Claude Code using Codebase Brain to explain the history, impact and docs of a function](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp/main/assets/demo.gif)
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+
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+ *Claude Code asks why `TimestampSigner.unsign` looks the way it does, what breaks if it changes, and whether its
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+ docs are current. Codebase Brain answers with commits, callers, tests and doc findings, all cited. (Waiting time
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+ sped up.)*
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+
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+ ## The problem
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+ AI coding assistants are good at writing new code but struggle to understand code that already exists:
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+
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+ - **They can't see the whole project.** A real codebase has thousands of files. The assistant reads a few and
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+ guesses the rest, so it misses the function that matters or invents one that doesn't exist.
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+ - **You can't check their answers.** "Expiry is handled in the auth module" is no use if you can't see where. Without
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+ file and line references, you have to trust the answer or re-read the code yourself.
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+ - **They don't know why code is the way it is.** The code shows *what* it does. The reasons ("we added this check
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+ because it crashed on Windows") live in git history and pull requests, which assistants never read. So they
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+ "clean up" code that exists for a reason and bring old bugs back.
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+ - **They don't know what a change will break,** or whether the documentation still matches the code.
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+ - **Many tools send your code to someone else's server** to make it searchable.
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+
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+ ## What Codebase Brain gives you
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+ A plug-in for any AI assistant that turns a codebase into something it can actually look things up in:
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+
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+ - **Answers with proof.** Every result points to the exact file and lines, and the assistant can open them.
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+ - **Search that understands code.** It finds code whether you type the exact name (`calculate_invoice_total`) or
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+ describe it in plain words ("how are invoices totalled?").
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+ - **The story behind the code.** For any function, it shows every change made to it, who made it, why (from the
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+ commit message and pull request), and what the change was.
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+ - **What breaks if you change something.** Everything that uses a function, directly or indirectly, and the tests
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+ that cover it.
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+ - **Out-of-date docs, found automatically.** Documentation that mentions functions, files or settings that no longer
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+ exist, or shows examples that would no longer work.
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+ - **Private by design.** Everything runs on your machine. No API keys, and your code never leaves your computer.
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+
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+ ## Why it's different (technical)
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+
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+ - **Code-aware chunking.** Python is split by function, class and method using the real syntax tree, Markdown by
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+ heading. Each chunk knows its symbol (`TimestampSigner.unsign`) and exact lines, so citations point at real code.
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+ - **Hybrid retrieval.** SQLite FTS5 BM25 (with `camelCase` / `snake_case` identifier splitting) plus local
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+ embeddings, merged with reciprocal-rank fusion. Exact names and fuzzy questions both work.
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+ - **Local and free.** Embeddings run on your machine (`fastembed`, ONNX). No API keys, and no code leaves your
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+ computer.
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+ - **Incremental.** Re-indexing only re-embeds files whose content changed. On a 42-file repo, a re-index with no
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+ changes takes about 2 seconds.
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+ - **History-aware.** `explain_history` follows a function's lines back through git (`git log -L`), shows who wrote
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+ the current lines, and links the pull requests behind each change. So agents can answer *"why is it built this
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+ way?"*, not just *"what does it do?"*.
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+ - **Impact analysis.** `impact_of_change` lists everything that uses a function, directly and transitively, plus the
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+ tests that exercise it, before an agent changes anything.
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+ - **Doc-drift detection.** `find_doc_drift` checks Markdown and reStructuredText docs against the code. It finds
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+ files, functions, settings and flags that don't exist; examples passing parameters a function doesn't take; imports
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+ that would fail; and sections last edited long before the code they describe changed. Each finding cites the doc
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+ section and suggests a fix ("Was it renamed to `checkout_total`?").
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+ - **Agent-friendly output.** Structured tool results, read-only tool annotations, progress notifications while
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+ indexing, and clear error messages the model can act on.
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+
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+ ## Tools
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+ | Tool | What it does |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | `index_repo(source, name?)` | Index a local path or an `https://` git URL (shallow clone). Reports progress. |
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+ | `ask_codebase(question, repo?, k?)` | The most relevant code and docs as cited sources, plus related commits, with instructions to answer only from them. |
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+ | `search(query, repo?, k?, path_prefix?, kinds?)` | Raw hybrid search, filterable by path and chunk kind. |
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+ | `explain_history(symbol? \| path, start_line?, end_line?, repo?)` | Every commit that changed a function or line range, newest first, with the relevant diff, current authorship, and PR titles and descriptions (GitHub). |
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+ | `search_history(query, repo?, k?)` | Find commits by what their messages say. |
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+ | `impact_of_change(symbol, path?, depth?, repo?)` | Direct and indirect users of a function or class, and the tests involved. |
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+ | `find_doc_drift(path_prefix?, check_history?, repo?)` | Documentation that no longer matches the code, by severity (high, medium, low). |
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+ | `read_lines(path, start, end, repo?)` | Open the exact lines behind a citation. Refuses paths outside the repo. |
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+ | `list_repos()` | What's indexed, at which commit, and in which languages. |
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+ Also included: the resource `brain://repos`, and the prompt `answer_with_citations`.
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+ ## Install
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+ Codebase Brain runs on your own machine, so there's no server or account, and it's free. With
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+ [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):
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+ ```bash
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+ # Claude Code
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+ claude mcp add codebase-brain -- uvx codebase-brain-mcp
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+ # Any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, ...): add this server to its config
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+ { "command": "uvx", "args": ["codebase-brain-mcp"] }
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Quick start
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ uv sync
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+ uv run codebase-brain index https://github.com/pallets/itsdangerous
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+ uv run codebase-brain search "how is the signature timestamp checked for expiry"
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ 0.0313 src/itsdangerous/timed.py:72-158 method TimestampSigner.unsign
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+ 0.0311 docs/timed.rst:1-28 code
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+ 0.0301 src/itsdangerous/timed.py:170-228 class TimedSerializer
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+ ```
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+ Ask why it looks like that. `explain_history(symbol="TimestampSigner.unsign")` returns its line-by-line history:
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+ ```
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+ src/itsdangerous/timed.py:72-158
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+ 3edfbbbc 2022-03-24 handle OverflowError in timed unsign on 32-bit systems
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+ 177196d3 2022-03-09 catch OSError on Windows
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+ 37f09970 2022-03-08 catching year overflow ValueError
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+ c30678d1 2019-05-31 don't allow timestamps from the future
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+ 910a7a94 2020-04-17 datetimes are timezone-aware utc
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+ ...
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Use it from Claude Code
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+ ```bash
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+ claude mcp add codebase-brain -- uv run --directory /path/to/codebase-brain-mcp codebase-brain
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Run it as a remote server (Streamable HTTP)
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+ ```bash
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+ export CODEBASE_BRAIN_TOKEN="$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))')"
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+ uv run codebase-brain serve --transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8765
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+ ```
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+ Clients connect to `http://<host>:8765/mcp` with `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. `GET /healthz` is open for load
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+ balancers. Remote mode is locked down by default:
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+ - **No token, no public port.** The server refuses to listen beyond localhost without a token of at least 24
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+ characters. Tokens are compared in constant time.
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+ - **Remote clients can't read the server's disk.** Only public `https://` git URLs can be indexed, not local paths,
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+ unless you set `CODEBASE_BRAIN_ALLOW_LOCAL_PATHS=1`.
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+ - **Big repos are refused** above `CODEBASE_BRAIN_MAX_FILES` (default 20,000), and every git command has a timeout.
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+ - **DNS-rebinding protection** is on for localhost, and for any hosts listed in `CODEBASE_BRAIN_ALLOWED_HOSTS`.
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+ ### Docker
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+ ```bash
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+ docker build -t codebase-brain-mcp .
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+ docker run -p 8765:8765 -e CODEBASE_BRAIN_TOKEN="$CODEBASE_BRAIN_TOKEN" -v brain-data:/data codebase-brain-mcp
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+ ```
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+ The image runs as a non-root user and includes the embedding model, so it starts fast and needs no download at
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+ runtime. It has a health check, and keeps indexes in the `/data` volume. Indexing uses about 1.2 GB of memory, so
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+ give the container 2 GB.
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+
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+ ### Configuration
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+
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+ | Variable | Default | |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_HOME` | `~/.codebase-brain` | Indexes and clones |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_EMBEDDER` | `fastembed` | `hash` gives an offline, deterministic embedder (used in tests) |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_EMBED_MODEL` | `BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5` | Any fastembed text model |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_MAX_FILE_BYTES` | `512000` | Larger files are skipped |
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+ | `GITHUB_TOKEN` | unset | Optional. Raises GitHub's API rate limit for PR lookups |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_FETCH_PRS` | `1` | Set to `0` to never call the GitHub API |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_TOKEN` | unset | Bearer token for HTTP mode (required unless bound to localhost) |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_ALLOWED_HOSTS` | unset | Comma-separated `Host` values to accept (DNS-rebinding protection) |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_ALLOW_LOCAL_PATHS` | `1` (stdio) / `0` (HTTP) | Whether `index_repo` may read local directories |
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+ | `CODEBASE_BRAIN_MAX_FILES` | `20000` | Refuse repos with more indexable files |
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+ | `PORT` | `8765` | HTTP port (platforms such as Cloud Run set this) |
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+ ### Doc drift, tested honestly
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+ On a well-maintained project (itsdangerous), `find_doc_drift` reports no false alarms. It only reports three
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+ "worth a look" sections whose docs date from 2020 while the code they describe changed in 2024–2025. On docs with
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+ planted mistakes, it catches every one: a moved file, a renamed function (with the right suggestion), an unknown
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+ setting and flag, a keyword argument the function doesn't take, and an import that would fail. Changelogs are skipped,
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+ because they're supposed to mention removed things.
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+ ## Evaluation
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+ Does search actually put the right code in front of the model? `codebase-brain eval` answers that with a benchmark.
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+ The benchmark has 32 questions about [pallets/itsdangerous](https://github.com/pallets/itsdangerous), pinned to
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+ commit `672971d`, each with the code or docs a good answer must come from. The questions are in
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+ [`evals/datasets/itsdangerous.toml`](https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp/blob/main/evals/datasets/itsdangerous.toml). They were written by reading the code
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+ before any results were measured, and haven't been changed since.
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+ | Mode | Hit@1 | Hit@3 | Hit@5 | Hit@10 | MRR@10 (95% CI) | nDCG@10 | p50 latency |
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+ | **hybrid** (default) | 56% | **88%** | **88%** | 91% | **0.697** (0.56–0.82) | **0.735** | 5 ms |
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+ | keyword only (BM25) | 56% | 75% | 78% | 84% | 0.667 (0.52–0.80) | 0.699 | <1 ms |
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+ | vector only (bge-small) | 56% | 72% | 75% | 94% | 0.658 (0.51–0.80) | 0.701 | 4 ms |
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+ | Hit@5 by question type | describes behaviour (14) | about the docs (7) | names the code (11) |
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+ | hybrid | **71%** | **100%** | 100% |
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+ | keyword only | 64% | 71% | 100% |
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+ | vector only | 57% | 71% | 100% |
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+ **What this shows:**
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+ - **Hybrid finds a right answer in the top 3 for 88% of questions,** against 75% and 72% for either method alone.
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+ The gain comes from questions written in plain words and questions about the docs. When the question names the
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+ code, every mode finds it.
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+ - **It's honest about uncertainty.** With 32 questions, the confidence intervals for MRR overlap, so hybrid is better
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+ *on this set* but not yet proven in general. Per question, hybrid beats keyword-only on 8 questions and loses on 4.
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+ - **It has known misses.** Four questions describing behaviour in very different words from the code don't reach
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+ the top 5. They're listed in [`evals/results/itsdangerous.md`](https://github.com/Nomannazir/codebase-brain-mcp/blob/main/evals/results/itsdangerous.md) and are the next
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+ thing to improve. A larger, held-out question set will come first, so any tuning isn't fitted to these 32.
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+ Reproduce it (the first run downloads the repo and the embedding model):
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+ ```bash
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+ uv run codebase-brain eval evals/datasets/itsdangerous.toml --out evals/results
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+ ```
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+ How it's measured:
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+ - **Hit@k:** a relevant result is in the top k.
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+ - **MRR:** 1 / rank of the first relevant result.
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+ - **nDCG@10:** each target is credited once, so duplicate chunks don't inflate the score.
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+ - **Confidence intervals:** 95% bootstrap over questions, seeded.
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+ - **Relevance:** a result is relevant if it's in the target file and, when the target names a symbol, is that symbol
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+ or one of its methods.
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+ - **Dataset rot:** the harness fails if a target no longer exists at the pinned commit.
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+ ## How it works
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+ ```
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+ source ─► resolve (local dir / shallow https clone) ─► list files (.gitignore-aware, skips binaries and lockfiles)
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+ ─► chunk (ast / headings / line windows) ─► embed (fastembed) ─► SQLite: chunks + vectors + FTS5
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+ query ─► BM25 top 50 ┐
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+ ─► vector top 50 ┴─► reciprocal-rank fusion ─► filters ─► cited sources
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+ ```
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+ ## Security
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+ - Clones are blobless (`--filter=blob:none`): full history, with file contents fetched only when needed.
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+ - Commit authors are shown by name only; email addresses are never stored or returned.
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+ - Only `https://` clone URLs are accepted. Git runs with `GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL=https:file` and no terminal prompts.
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+ - `read_lines` resolves paths and refuses anything outside the indexed repository.
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+ - Repo names are validated, so they can't escape the index directory.
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+ - All query tools are marked read-only.
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+ - In HTTP mode: a required bearer token (constant-time check), git URLs only, repo size limits, DNS-rebinding
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+ protection, and a non-root container.
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+ ## Development
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+ ```bash
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+ uv run pytest # 54 tests, offline (hash embedder, temporary git repos, in-process MCP client)
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+ uv run ruff check . # lint
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+ uv run ruff format . # format
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+ uv run pyright # types
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+ ```
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+ ## Roadmap
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+ - [x] Git history and PR discussions: `explain_history`, `search_history`
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+ - [x] Symbol references and transitive dependents: `impact_of_change`
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+ - [x] `find_doc_drift`: Markdown and reStructuredText, signatures, imports, settings, flags, staleness
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+ - [ ] tree-sitter chunking for more languages
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+ - [x] Retrieval evals with confidence intervals (`codebase-brain eval`)
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+ - [ ] Larger held-out eval set, then retrieval tuning (reranking, query expansion)
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+ - [x] Streamable HTTP with bearer-token auth, Docker image
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+ - [ ] Hosted demo, PyPI package, MCP Registry listing
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+ - [ ] OpenTelemetry tracing
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+ [console_scripts]
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+ codebase-brain = codebase_brain_mcp.__main__:main
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+ codebase-brain-mcp = codebase_brain_mcp.__main__:main
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