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grepai mcp-serve

grepai mcp-serve

Start grepai as an MCP server

Synopsis

Start grepai as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server.

This allows AI agents to use grepai as a native tool through the MCP protocol. The server communicates via stdio and exposes the following tools:

  • grepai_search: Semantic code search with natural language
  • grepai_trace_callers: Find all functions that call a symbol
  • grepai_trace_callees: Find all functions called by a symbol
  • grepai_trace_graph: Build a call graph around a symbol
  • grepai_index_status: Check index health and statistics

Configuration for Claude Code: claude mcp add grepai — grepai mcp-serve

Configuration for Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json): { “mcpServers”: { “grepai”: { “command”: “grepai”, “args”: [“mcp-serve”] } } }

grepai mcp-serve [flags]

Options

-h, --help help for mcp-serve

SEE ALSO

  • grepai - Semantic code search CLI
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