mcp-server-code-assist: A Code Assistant MCP Server

Overview

A Model Context Protocol server for code modification and generation. This server provides tools to create, modify, and delete code via Large Language Models.

Tools

1. create
2. Creates new files
3. Input: XML instruction with path and content

4. Returns: Confirmation of file creation

5. modify

6. Modifies existing files with search/replace
7. Input: XML instruction with path, search pattern, and new content

8. Returns: Diff of changes

9. rewrite

10. Completely rewrites a file
11. Input: XML instruction with path and new content

12. Returns: Confirmation of rewrite

13. delete

14. Removes files
15. Input: XML instruction with path
16. Returns: Confirmation of deletion

XML Format

<Plan>
Describe approach and reasoning
</Plan>

<file path="/path/to/file" action="create|modify|rewrite|delete">
  <change>
    <description>What this change does</description>
    <search>
===
Original code for modification
===
    </search>
    <content>
===
New or modified code
===
    </content>
  </change>
</file>

Installation

Using uv (recommended)

uvx mcp-server-code-assist

Using pip

pip install mcp-server-code-assist
python -m mcp_server_code_assist

Configuration

Usage with Claude Desktop

"mcpServers": {
  "code-assist": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["mcp-server-code-assist"]
  }
}

"mcpServers": {
  "code-assist": {
    "command": "docker",
    "args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "--mount", "type=bind,src=/Users/username,dst=/Users/username", "mcp/code-assist"]
  }
}

Usage with Zed

Add to settings.json:

"context_servers": {
  "mcp-server-code-assist": {
    "command": {
      "path": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-code-assist"]
    }
  }
},

Development

cd src/code-assist
uvx mcp-server-code-assist

# For docker:
docker build -t mcp/code-assist .

License

MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.