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Tilth

Tilth is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Smart code reading for humans and AI agents. It has 357 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y tilth.

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Install Tilth

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tilth": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tilth"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio tilth -- npx -y tilth

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tilth": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tilth"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "tilth": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tilth"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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 Tilth

Smart code reading for humans and AI agents. tilth parses your code with tree-sitter and answers questions that text search can't. It shows where a symbol is defined, who calls it, what it calls, what depends on a file, and what changed at function level.

  • ai-agents
  • cli
  • context-engineering
  • code-navigation
  • code-search
  • developer-tools
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • rust
  • tree-sitter

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FAQ

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How do I install the Tilth MCP server?

Add the command npx -y tilth 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 Tilth free?

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

Is Tilth actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 18, 2026. The latest release is v0.12.0, published Oct 18, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.