by jgravelle
The leading, most token-efficient MCP server for GitHub source code exploration via tree-sitter AST parsing
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcpQuickstart - https://github.com/jgravelle/jcodemunch-mcp/blob/main/QUICKSTART.md
Use it to make money, and Uncle J. gets a taste. Fair enough? details
Most AI agents explore repositories the expensive way:
open entire files → skim thousands of irrelevant lines → repeat.
That is not “a little inefficient.” That is a token incinerator.
jCodeMunch indexes a codebase once and lets agents retrieve only the exact code they need: functions, classes, methods, constants, outlines, and tightly scoped context bundles, with byte-level precision.
In retrieval-heavy workflows, that routinely cuts code-reading token usage by 95%+ because the agent stops brute-reading giant files just to find one useful implementation.
| Task | Traditional approach | With jCodeMunch | | ---------------------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | Find a function | Open and scan large files | Search symbol → fetch exact implementation | | Understand a module | Read broad file regions | Pull only relevant symbols and imports | | Explore repo structure | Traverse file after file | Query outlines, trees, and targeted bundles |
Index once. Query cheaply. Keep moving. Precision context beats brute-force context.
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Commercial licenses
jCodeMunch-MCP is free for non-commercial use.
Commercial use requires a paid license.
jCodeMunch-only licenses
- Builder — $79 — 1 developer
- Studio — $349 — up to 5 developers
- Platform — $1,999 — org-wide internal deployment
Want both code and docs retrieval?
Stop paying your model to read the whole damn file.
jCodeMunch turns repo exploration into structured retrieval.
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