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

create
- Creates new files
- Input: XML instruction with path and content
- Returns: Confirmation of file creation
modify
- Modifies existing files with search/replace
- Input: XML instruction with path, search pattern, and new content
- Returns: Diff of changes
rewrite
- Completely rewrites a file
- Input: XML instruction with path and new content
- Returns: Confirmation of rewrite
delete
- Removes files
- Input: XML instruction with path
- 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>

Related MCP server: MCP TapData Server

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"] } }