vinv-mcp

Give your AI agent runtime evidence. One MCP server exposing all of Vinv's tools — semantic code search, dead-code detection, fault localization over real runs, live values/slices/coverage, and the verify/optimize loop — to any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, …).

Vinv runs, tests, and finds issues in your Python services with zero code changes. vinv-mcp hands that evidence to the agent you already use.

Prerequisite

The MCP server drives the Vinv engines, which ship on PyPI. Install them so they are on your PATH:

pip install vinv
# or:
uv tool install vinv

Configure your MCP client

Add vinv-mcp to your client's MCP config once, globally (it runs over stdio via npx, no global install needed) — no per-repo path required:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vinv": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "vinv-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

The server discovers which folder to analyze automatically: it asks your client for its open workspace via MCP roots (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code), so one config follows whatever repo you have open. Resolution order is VINV_WORKSPACE → MCP roots → current working directory. Set VINV_WORKSPACE (or pass the path as the first argument) only to pin a specific repo — e.g. in a client that does not expose roots.

• Claude Code: claude mcp add vinv -- npx -y vinv-mcp
• Cursor / VS Code / others: add the JSON block above to the client's MCP settings.
• Claude Desktop (no open-folder concept): pin the repo with "env": { "VINV_WORKSPACE": "/absolute/path/to/your/repo" }.

Indexing

The semantic-search index builds itself in the background the moment the server starts on a workspace (the first build also downloads the local embedding model, ~500 MB, once). Nothing blocks: vinv_query returns a "still indexing" notice and you fall back to text search until it is ready. Call vinv_index any time to start/refresh the index or check status, or vinv_index with rebuild: true to force a full rebuild.

Tools

vinv-mcp exposes the full Vinv tool set in one server:

| Area | Tools | |---|---| | Code index | vinv_query (semantic search), vinv_index (build/refresh), vinv_deadcode (unreferenced code), vinv_feedback, vinv_session | | Runtime | rank_suspects, values_of, slice, coverage_of, callers_of, blast_radius, why_did_this_run, relevant_to | | Exercise | vinv_ingest_run, vinv_run_status, vinv_list_candidates |

How it works

vinv-mcp multiplexes Vinv's three focused MCP servers (index / runtime / exercise) into a single stdio server: tools/list merges every tool and tools/call routes to the one that owns it. All analysis runs locally, on your machine — no API keys, no telemetry.

Links

• vinv.ai
• github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI

Apache-2.0.