chunkhound

by chunkhound · Python · ★ 1,240

Local first codebase intelligence

#agent#ai#duckdb#mcp-server#rag#semantic-search#tree-sitter

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/chunkhound/chunkhound.git

Claude Desktop config

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chunkhound": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "git+https://github.com/chunkhound/chunkhound.git"
      ]
    }
  }
}

From the README

Local-first codebase intelligence Your AI assistant searches code but doesn't understand it. ChunkHound researches your codebase—extracting architecture, patterns, and institutional knowledge at any scale. Integrates via [MCP](https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/). - **[cAST Algorithm](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.15655)** - Research-backed semantic code chunking - **[Multi-Hop Semantic Search](https://chunkhound.github.io/under-the-hood/#multi-hop-semantic-search)** - Discovers interconnected code relationships beyond direct matches - **Semantic search** - Natural language queri…

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