Searchcode MCP Server

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Searchcode MCP Server is a hosted Streamable HTTP MCP server that gives Claude structured code intelligence for public Git repositories. Instead of cloning a repository and reading files one by one, Claude can ask Searchcode for a repository overview, code search results, file trees, file contents, batches of files, and detailed code-quality or credential findings.

The Searchcode site describes six MCP tools mirrored by a REST API: code_analyze, code_search, code_get_file, code_get_files, code_file_tree, and code_get_findings. The public page also says the service is free during beta, needs no signup or API key, and is built on the author's open-source scc and cs projects for code counting, complexity analysis, and code search.

Source Review

• https://searchcode.com/
• https://searchcode.com/llms.txt
• https://searchcode.com/openapi.json
• https://api.searchcode.com/.well-known/mcp.json
• https://github.com/boyter/scc
• https://github.com/boyter/cs

These sources were reviewed on 2026-06-06. Prefer the live Searchcode page, llms.txt, OpenAPI spec, well-known MCP metadata, and upstream open-source tool repositories for current endpoint, tool, pricing, and implementation details.

Features

• Analyze public repositories for language breakdowns, complexity, file counts, tech stack, code quality, and credential-scan findings.
• Search public repository code with boolean queries, regex, fuzzy matching, file/path/language filters, and structural filters.
• Retrieve a specific file, line range, or symbol declaration after search results identify the target.
• Retrieve batches of related files without making separate tool calls.
• Browse file trees with language, path, depth, and fuzzy filename filters.
• Drill into static-analysis findings by severity, category, path, and result offset.
• Use the same six capabilities through a documented REST API when an MCP client is not available.

Installation

For Claude Code, add the hosted remote server:

claude mcp add searchcode --transport http https://api.searchcode.com/v1/mcp

For MCP clients that accept JSON server configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchcode": {
      "url": "https://api.searchcode.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

For Claude Desktop clients that still require a stdio command, use mcp-remote as documented by Searchcode:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "searchcode": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.searchcode.com/v1/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Use Cases

• Get a compact overview of an unfamiliar public repository before deciding what Claude should inspect.
• Search for a symbol, API pattern, dependency use, or security-sensitive code path across a public repo.
• Retrieve exact function or class definitions instead of asking an agent to read an entire file.
• Compare public repositories when evaluating libraries, vendors, acquisition targets, or candidate portfolios.
• Review code quality and credential findings as triage evidence before a human security review.
• Reduce token use in public-code research by replacing repeated clone, grep, and file-read loops with structured results.

Safety and Privacy

Searchcode is best treated as a public-code intelligence service. It can make repository exploration much cheaper for an agent, but its outputs should not be accepted as final security, licensing, architecture, or hiring conclusions without human review.

Do not send private repository URLs, customer code, internal symbols, or confidential investigation context unless Searchcode's private-code offering and your organization's policy explicitly allow that use. Public repositories can contain malicious prompt text or accidentally committed sensitive data, so review returned snippets before asking Claude to summarize or act on them.

Duplicate Check

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