Codebase Chat

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "codebase-chat": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["codebase-chat-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --ask "how is auth handled?"
npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --health   # offline, no LLM
npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --health --diff main   # only what changed
npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --watch    # index stays hot while you code
npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --prompt intelligence   # same brief the IDE gets - pipe to any LLM
npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --prompt intelligence --call    # DeepSeek/OpenAI answers directly (API key)
npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --prompt intelligence --no-llm  # deterministic report - zero model, zero key
npx codebase-chat --project C:\my-app --ui   # interactive HTML dashboard on localhost - no LLM

dsh plugin --profile web add codebase-chat

git clone https://github.com/shinzarou-eng/codebase-chat.git
cd codebase-chat && pnpm install && pnpm build

dsh --profile headless '/codebase "how is auth handled?" --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-search "usePetStore" --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-explain "storage.ts" --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-refactor "split this hook" --file storage.ts --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-intel --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-audit --project C:\my-app --lang en'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-tasks --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-apply-tasks --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-build --project C:\my-app'
dsh --profile headless '/codebase-git --project C:\my-app'

{
  "lang": "en",
  "maxTokens": 60000,
  "ignoreDirs": ["generated", "fixtures"],
  "ignoreFiles": ["bundle.js"],
  "ignoreGlobs": ["src/vendor/**", "*.snap"],
  "protectedPaths": ["src/locked", "migrations"]
}