micl2e2/code-to-tree

- MCP Server: code-to-tree
- Using code-to-tree
- Configure MCP Clients
- Building (Windows)
- Building (macOS)
MCP Server: code-to-tree
The code-to-tree server's goals are:
1. Give LLMs the capability of **accurately** converting source code into
AST(Abstract Syntax Tree), regardless of language.
2. One **standalone** binary should be everything the MCP client needs.
These goals imply:
1. The underlying syntax parser should be **versatile** enough. Here we
choose tree-sitter, and languages are: C, C++, Rust, Ruby, Go, Java, Python.
2. The server should be able to carry all capabilities within
itself, imposing **minimum** software dependencies on the end user's
machine. Here we choose mcpc.
**Screenshots:**
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in q.md.
(**IMPORTANT NOTE**: LLMs have no responsibility of generating the identical
result for the same question, you will likely get a completely different
style or content. The screenshots or questions provided here are just for the reference)
Using code-to-tree
Before everthing, you need to have the code-to-tree executable on your
machine (code-to-tree.exe for Windows, code-to-tree for macOS),
you can download at GitHub release page or build it yourself. Once
downloaded, you configure your MCP clients to install it, check the section
*"Configure MCP Clients"* for more details.
Configure MCP Clients
Here we use Claude as the example.
Windows
In your Claude configuration
(C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json),
specify the location of code-to-tree.exe:
{
"mcpServers": {
"code-to-tree": { "command": "C:\\path\\to\\code-to-tree.exe" }
}
}
macOS
In your Claude configuration,
(~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json)
specify the location of code-to-tree
{
"mcpServers": {
"code-to-tree": { "command": "/path/to/code-to-tree" }
}
}
Building (Windows)
1. Prepare environment
1. download & install MSYS2.
2. open application "MSYS2 MINGW64"
3. run pacman -S make gcc git
2. Prepare tree-sitter libraries
Here we need to compile and install tree-sitter and all related grammars.
Clone them:
git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter
git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c
git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp
git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-rust
git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby
git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go
git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-java
Compile and install them:
cd tree-sitter && OS=1 make install
cd tree-sitter-c && OS=1 make install
cd tree-sitter-cpp && OS=1 make install
cd tree-sitter-rust && OS=1 make install
cd tree-sitter-ruby && OS=1 make install
cd tree-sitter-go && OS=1 make install
cd tree-sitter-java && OS=1 make install
3. Build code-to-tree
Install mcpc:
git clone https://github.com/micl2e2/mcpc
cd mcpc && make install
Compile code-to-tree: