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Repowise

Repowise is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Codebase intelligence for AI coding agents — graph, git history, docs, decisions, code health. It has 7,915 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with uvx repowise.

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Install Repowise

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Claude Desktop

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

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio repowise -- uvx repowise

Cursor

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

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

VS Code

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

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 Repowise

Understand your codebase without paying your agent to rediscover it. Repowise indexes your code, call graph, git history, tests, docs and design decisions once, on your machine. Then you and your coding agent ask it things: what calls this, what breaks if I change it, what is dead, what to fix first, why it was built this way, and what evidence stands behind each change that landed.

  • ai
  • code-intelligence
  • dead-code
  • developer-tools
  • documentation
  • git-analytics
  • mcp
  • open-source
  • python
  • code-complexity

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FAQ

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How do I install the Repowise MCP server?

Add the command uvx repowise 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 Repowise free?

The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Repowise actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 25, 2026. The latest release is v0.59.0, published Oct 25, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.