Corbell MCP Server

You're a staff engineer or architect at a company where features touch 5–10 repositories. Every quarter your team re-litigates the same architectural decisions: "should we use Kafka or SQS?", "why…

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What is the Corbell MCP Server?

Corbell is an MCP project maintained in the corbell-ai/corbell repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “You're a staff engineer or architect at a company where features touch 5–10 repositories. Every quarter your team re-litigates the same architectural decisions: "should we…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Local setup

The project provides a local client configuration using corbell. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

Recorded tools

Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.

ToolWhat it does
graph_queryQuery service dependencies, methods, and call paths
get_architecture_contextAuto-discover relevant services for a feature description
code_searchSemantic search across the code embedding index
list_servicesList all services in the workspace graph

How to install the Corbell MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "corbell": {
      "command": "corbell",
      "args": [
        "mcp",
        "serve"
      ]
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.