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Code Context Engine

Code Context Engine is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Save 94% on AI coding tokens. Index your codebase, agents search instead of reading files. It has 440 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx code-context-engine.

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Install Code Context Engine

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "code-context-engine": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "code-context-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio code-context-engine -- uvx code-context-engine

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "code-context-engine": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "code-context-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "code-context-engine": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "code-context-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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 Code Context Engine

Index your codebase. AI searches instead of re-reading files. 94% token savings, reproducibly benchmarked. Website · Docs · Why CCE? · Benchmark · GitHub

  • claude-code
  • code-indexing
  • llm-tools
  • cursor
  • mcp-server
  • ai-coding
  • claude
  • open-source
  • save-tokens
  • token-savings

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FAQ

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How do I install the Code Context Engine MCP server?

Add the command uvx code-context-engine 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 Code Context Engine free?

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

Is Code Context Engine actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Aug 23, 2026. The latest release is v0.4.26, published Aug 12, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.