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Chunkhound

Chunkhound is an MCP server that adds data and analytics tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Your entire engineering context, deeply understood. It has 1,455 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx chunkhound.

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Install Chunkhound

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chunkhound": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "chunkhound"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio chunkhound -- uvx chunkhound

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chunkhound": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "chunkhound"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "chunkhound": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "chunkhound"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Chunkhound

Your entire engineering context, deeply understood. Open-source codebase intelligence that gives agents and teams cited context across current code, git history, and technical web research.

  • agent
  • ai
  • duckdb
  • mcp-server
  • semantic-search
  • tree-sitter
  • rag

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How do I install the Chunkhound MCP server?

Add the command uvx chunkhound to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Chunkhound free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Chunkhound actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 25, 2026. The latest release is v6.1.0, published Oct 20, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.