# Repowise (MCP server)

> 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 7,174 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with uvx 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, and why it was built this way.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise |
| GitHub stars | 7,174 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Language | Python |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | pypi: repowise |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | yes |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Developer tools |
| Latest release | v0.55.0 (Oct 4, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 5, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | dev.repowise/repowise |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

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

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```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)

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "repowise": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "repowise"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

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