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Context Engine

Context Engine is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Compress logs, retrieval chunks, and code context into structured LLM-ready signal. It has 326 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx melonelish-context-engine.

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Install Context Engine

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context-engine": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "melonelish-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 context-engine -- uvx melonelish-context-engine

Cursor

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

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "context-engine": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "melonelish-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 Context Engine

面向 Agent 工作流、RAG 管线、AI Coding 助手的任务感知 Context Compression Layer。 很多 Agent / RAG / AI Coding 系统的问题，不是“没有上下文”，而是“上下文太脏、太长、太乱”。

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FAQ

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How do I install the Context Engine MCP server?

Add the command uvx melonelish-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 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 Context Engine actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Jul 11, 2026. The latest release is v0.1.0, published Jul 11, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.