Codebase Understanding for AI Coding Agents
Codebase Understanding for AI Coding Agents
Give your AI coding assistant instant, intelligent access to your entire codebase's structure, dependencies, and relationships without transmitting any source code. Constellation provides code intelligence as a service to AI coding assistant tools.
Once Constellation MCP is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Documentation — docs.constellationdev.ioSetup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
You will need one environment variable: CONSTELLATION_ACCESS_KEY. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"constellation": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@constellationdev/mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"CONSTELLATION_ACCESS_KEY": "YOUR_CONSTELLATION_ACCESS_KEY"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| CONSTELLATION_ACCESS_KEY | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
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GitHub's official server — repos, issues, pull requests, Actions and code security, straight from your assistant.
Issue tracking at the speed of conversation — Linear's official hosted server with OAuth and zero install.
Local repository surgery — status, diffs, commits, branches and history for any repo on disk.
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