# symbols [Health: Active]

**Category:** 💻 Developer Tools  
**Repository:** https://github.com/p1va/symbols  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/symbols-2

## Description
MCP server to read, inspect and troubleshoot codebase symbols

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Remote MCP endpoint (confidence: high). Install path detected from listing signals. Add as a URL/SSE server in your client:

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "symbols": {
    "url": "https://img.shields.io/npm/v/%40p1va%2Fsymbols?style=flat"
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

<div align="center">

# Symbols MCP

Read, inspect and navigate through codebase symbols by connecting to Language Servers.

![NPM Version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/%40p1va%2Fsymbols?style=flat)

</div>

## Introduction

By connecting to a Language Server of choice this MCP server makes it easy and efficient for coding agents to explore and navigate the codebase and its dependencies.
The server offers a minimal set of tools, resources and skills intended to be simple to use and light on the model's context.

### Tools

- **`outline`**: returns an outline of code symbols in a file, optionally with a small code snippet
- **`inspect`**: returns docs, declaration and implementation locations for a symbol, including third-party ones
- **`search`**: returns matching symbols across the codebase
- **`references`**: finds all references of a symbol across the codebase
- **`call_hierarchy`**: returns incoming and outgoing call relationships for a callable symbol
- **`rename`**: renames all references of a symbol across the codebase
- **`diagnostics`**: returns active diagnostics in a given file
- **`completion`**: returns contextual completions at a given location
- **`reload`**: reloads the effective config and reapplies it to currently running language servers

### Resources

- **`language-servers://profiles`**: returns the configured language servers along with their state.
- **`language-servers://profiles/{name}`**: returns a more detailed view of one language server.
- **`language-servers://profiles/{name}/logs`**: returns the Language Server logs for troubleshooting.

### Skills

- **`install-language-server`**: installs, configures, validates, or troubleshoots a language-server profile for the current workspace.
- **`language-server-navigation`**: guides symbol inspection, references, rename, diagnostics, and search through Language Server tools before falling back to text search.

## Installation

### Codex

```bash
codex plugin marketplace add p1va/symbols
codex plugin add symbols@symbols
```

Then ask Codex:

`Please install and configure the language servers relevant to this codebase`

### Antigravity

```bash
agy plugin install https://github.com/p1va/symbols.git
```

Then ask Antigravity:

> Install and configure the language servers relevant to this codebase.

### Manual Installation

For manual configuration and language servers examples see [here](https://github.com/p1va/symbols/blob/HEAD/docs/INSTALLATION.md#traditional-installation).

## Development

- `pnpm lint` outputs the lint violations
- `pnpm lint:fix` attempts to fix lint violations
- `pnpm format` formats the codebase
- `pnpm format:check` checks formatting without changing files
- `pnpm dev` starts in development mode
- `pnpm build` runs the linter and build
- `pnpm start` starts the built artifacts
- `pnpm test:unit` runs the unit tests
- `pnpm test:integration:{language id}` runs the integration tests for a given language

## Release

- `pnpm version patch` to synchronize generated assets, bump the version, and
  create a single commit and tag. Use `minor` or `major` when appropriate.
- `git push --follow-tags` to push the commit and tag.

The version lifecycle checks formatting, mirrors `.agents/skills/` into the
Antigravity and Codex distributions, and updates the versioned Codex plugin
manifest before the commit and tag are created.