Code To Tree

🚀 MCP Server: code-to-tree

The code-to-tree server aims to:

1. Enable LLMs to accurately convert source code into AST (Abstract Syntax Tree), regardless of the programming language.
2. Provide a standalone binary that meets all the needs of MCP clients.

These goals lead to the following requirements:

1. The underlying syntax parser should be versatile. We choose tree-sitter, supporting languages like C, C++, Rust, Ruby, Go, Java, and Python.
2. The server should carry all capabilities within itself, imposing minimum software dependencies on the end - user's machine. We choose mcpc for this purpose.

Screenshots:

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⚠️ Important Note

LLMs are not guaranteed to generate identical results for the same question. You may get a completely different style or content. The screenshots and questions provided here are for reference only.

🚀 Quick Start

Before using, 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 it from the GitHub release page or build it yourself. After downloading, configure your MCP clients to install it. Refer to the "Configure MCP Clients" section for more details.

✨ Features

• Accurate AST Conversion: Capable of accurately converting source code into AST regardless of the programming language.
• Standalone Binary: A single binary meets all the requirements of MCP clients.

📦 Installation

Windows

1. Prepare environment
   • Download and install MSYS2.
   • Open the "MSYS2 MINGW64" application.
   • Run pacman -S make gcc git.
2. Prepare tree-sitter libraries
   • Clone the repositories:

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:

cd mcpc/example/code-to-tree
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" make
# Check the binary
file code-to-tree.exe
# Remember the binary's location
pwd
# Assume the output is: /c/path/to/code-to-tree.exe

macOS

1. Prepare environment
   • Install Xcode Command Line Tools.
2. Prepare tree-sitter libraries
   • Clone the repositories:

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 && make install
cd tree-sitter-c && make install
cd tree-sitter-cpp && make install
cd tree-sitter-rust && make install
cd tree-sitter-ruby && make install
cd tree-sitter-go && make install
cd tree-sitter-java && make install

3. Build code-to-tree
   • Install mcpc:

git clone https://github.com/micl2e2/mcpc
cd mcpc && make install

- Compile code-to-tree:

cd mcpc/example/code-to-tree
make
# Check the binary
file ./code-to-tree
# Remember the binary's location
pwd
# Assume the output is: /path/to/code-to-tree

🔧 Technical Details

Model Type

The code-to-tree server uses tree-sitter as the syntax parser and mcpc to carry capabilities with minimum dependencies.

Training Data

There is no specific mention of training data in the original document.

📚 Documentation

Configure MCP Clients

Here we take Claude as an 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" }
    }
}