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Sense MCP Server

Codebase understanding for AI coding agents — symbol graph, blast radius, semantic search.

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What is the Sense MCP Server?

Codebase understanding for AI coding agents — symbol graph, blast radius, semantic search.

The short version

Your AI agent reads 19 files to answer "who calls this function?" because it has the text of your codebase but never the map. It re-derives structure on every task, burns tokens chasing grep chains, and hallucinates dependencies that don't exist. Sense indexes your repo once and serves a symbol graph plus semantic code search over MCP. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, and any MCP client finish the same task in 10 tool calls instead of 19, on 156K tokens instead of 228K, with the same correctness (bench/).

What it needs from you

~60 MB disk for the binary - 100-200 MB for the .sense/ index (varies with project size)

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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.

Tool	What it does
sense_graph	Symbol relationships, callers, callees, inheritance, tests, dead code
sense_search	Hybrid bi-encoder + cross-encoder semantic code search with keyword and text fallback
sense_blast	Blast radius, affected code, affected tests, risk score
sense_conventions	Detected project conventions from source

Configuration

~60 MB disk for the binary - 100-200 MB for the .sense/ index (varies with project size)

Example prompts to try

“Use Sense to sense graph.”
“Use Sense to sense search.”
“Use Sense to sense blast.”

Frequently asked questions

Codebase understanding for AI coding agents — symbol graph, blast radius, semantic search. Confirm the tools offered by your installed version in the connected client. Tool availability and permissions depend on the server and account configuration.