A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides code analysis capabilities using tree-sitter, designed to give AI assistants intelligent access
Connect Tree Sitter to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides code analysis capabilities using tree-sitter, designed to give AI assistants intelligent access to codebases with appropriate context management. Claude Desktop is the reference. The tree sitter mcp server is what makes that connection.
The preferred_languages setting controls which language parsers are pre-loaded at server startup rather than on-demand. This provides several benefits:
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at mcp-server-tree-sitter on PyPI and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Configuration is passed through the environment: MCP_TS_LOG_LEVEL, MCP_TS_CACHE_MAX_SIZE_MB, MCP_TS_CONFIG_PATH. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Tree Sitter's toolset — Prerequisites — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by wrale; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Tree Sitter's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"server-tree-sitter": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-server-tree-sitter"],
"env": {
"MCP_TS_LOG_LEVEL": "your-value",
"MCP_TS_CACHE_MAX_SIZE_MB": "your-value",
"MCP_TS_CONFIG_PATH": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MCP_TS_LOG_LEVEL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| MCP_TS_CACHE_MAX_SIZE_MB | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| MCP_TS_CONFIG_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
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