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Roam Code

Roam Code is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Local codebase intelligence CLI + MCP server for AI coding agents: SQLite code graph, 28 languages, 287 commands, 246 MCP… It has 517 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with uvx roam-code.

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Install Roam Code

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Claude Desktop

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

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio roam-code -- uvx roam-code

Cursor

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

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

VS Code

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

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 Roam Code

Local code analysis and ready-to-run checks for coding agents. Roam gives your agent a reusable codebase index, pattern findings, candidate algorithmic alternatives, and checks it can call as it works. It can investigate code and evaluate changes without building each analysis from scratch.

  • ai-coding
  • cli
  • code-analysis
  • code-graph
  • code-intelligence
  • code-quality
  • mcp-server
  • static-analysis
  • tree-sitter
  • developer-tools

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FAQ

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How do I install the Roam Code MCP server?

Add the command uvx roam-code 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 Roam Code free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Roam Code actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 18, 2026. The latest release is v14.1.0-r1, published Oct 20, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.