Context-Engine MCP - Agentic Context Compression Suite
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/Context-Engine-AI/Context-EngineDocumentation: Getting Started · README · Configuration · IDE Clients · MCP API · ctx CLI · Memory Guide · Architecture · Multi-Repo · Observability · Kubernetes · VS Code Extension · Troubleshooting · Development
Open-core, self-improving code search that gets smarter every time you use it.
# Using pip
pip install context-engine
# Or using uv (recommended)
uv pip install context-engine
This installs the ctx command (also available as ctx-cli).
ctx quickstart
<details>
<summary><b>Legacy: Makefile Commands</b></summary>
</details>
This single command starts all services, indexes your codebase, and warms up models.
ctx status # Check service health
ctx reset --mcp # Reset with HTTP MCP endpoints (for Codex, modern clients)
ctx reset --mcp --db-reset # Hard reset: wipe database and rebuild everything
ctx search "auth flow" # Search your codebase
ctx answer "How does caching work?" # Get answers with citations
See ctx CLI Reference for all commands.
The ctx CLI deprecates the Makefile, but legacy commands retest available:
git clone https://github.com/m1rl0k/Context-Engine.git && cd Context-Engine
make bootstrap # Equivalent to: ctx quickstart
make reset # Equivalent to: ctx reset --mcp
Direct HTTP endpoints:
{
"mcpServers": {
"qdrant-indexer": { "url": "http://localhost:8003/mcp" },
"memory": { "url": "http://localhost:8002/mcp" }
}
}
See docs/IDE_CLIENTS.md for MCP configuration examples and docs/MCP_API.md for the complete API reference.
Context-Engine includes agent skills that teach AI ...