myopic

The code-review MCP with the most ironic name in the registry. It's anything but nearsighted — it reviews your merge request against the whole codebase, not just the diff in front of it.

Building in public. Reviews GitLab merge requests and GitHub pull requests — pass either URL. Reads the change, reviews it against the whole codebase, and can post the review back as inline comments. Issues and PRs welcome.

Why

The bugs that matter rarely live in the diff. They live in what it doesn't show: the caller three files away that now breaks, the convention every sibling file follows that this one quietly drops, the helper that already exists so this new one is a duplicate. A reviewer that only reads the patch is myopic.

myopic is an open-source MCP server that gives the AI client you already use (Claude, Cursor, …) the structured context to review like someone who knows the codebase. It runs on your machine — your code never leaves it, there's no per-PR bill, and the review happens in your own agent with your own standards:

• Read the change precisely — the diff as line-numbered hunks or grouped by function/class, token-safe on any MR size (a 10,000-line diff never overflows the context window).
• Review it against the whole codebase — who calls the changed code (blast radius), the caller/callee graph, and — optionally — semantically similar code so you catch broken conventions and duplication.

It pairs with amnesic, my MCP server that gives AI persistent memory of SQL databases.

Tools

Everything below works today unless marked planned.

Read the merge request (token-safe by construction):

On a large MR, the diff tools return a bounded page and list the rest under omitted_files / truncated instead of failing; lockfiles, generated code, and binaries are listed but not expanded. Fetch the rest with files_filter.

Review against the whole codebase (point at a local clone):

Semantic layer (built in — needs Ollama) — index_repo, code_search, and the semantic half of mr_review_context. See below.

Close the loop — verify, and (on request) comment:

See ROADMAP.md for what's next.

Install

pipx installs myopic isolated and on your PATH:

pipx install myopic

Prefer a plain venv? python3 -m venv ~/.venvs/myopic && ~/.venvs/myopic/bin/pip install myopic, then use that binary where the examples say myopic.

Setup

myopic needs a personal access token with api (or read_api) scope. The wizard walks you through it:

myopic init     # prompts for URL + token, verifies, saves both
myopic test     # ✓ Authenticated to https://gitlab.com as <you>
myopic doctor   # health-check config + (if enabled) the semantic layer

The token is saved to ~/.config/myopic/.env (chmod 600) and referenced from the TOML as ${GITLAB_TOKEN} — never in the config file itself. Rotate it with myopic set-secret, or hand-edit via myopic init --template.

GitHub PRs: just pass a PR URL. Set a GITHUB_TOKEN (a PAT with pull-request read access) in your environment or a [github] section in config.toml. For GitHub Enterprise, set [github].url to your host.

Add to your AI client

Claude Code — one command, no config editing:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/SurajKGoyal/myopic-marketplace
/plugin install myopic@myopic

Any other MCP client (Cursor, Claude Desktop, …) — point it at the myopic command:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "myopic": {
      "command": "myopic"
    }
  }
}

If your client can't find it on PATH, use the absolute path (pipx installs to ~/.local/bin/myopic).

Configure inline instead of myopic init

Put the token in the env block and skip the config file — myopic reads GITLAB_TOKEN / GITHUB_TOKEN from the environment:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "myopic": {
      "command": "myopic",
      "env": { "GITLAB_TOKEN": "glpat-…", "MYOPIC_AUTO_PULL": "1" }
    }
  }
}

MYOPIC_AUTO_PULL=1 (optional) pulls a missing embedding model on first use instead of erroring.

Use

Point your AI at a merge request:

"Review this MR: https://gitlab.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/42"

A good flow the client can follow: mr_changed_files to see the shape → mr_diff_sections (large MRs) or mr_diff_lines to read the change → then, with a local clone checked out, dependency_impact / trace_call_chain (or mr_review_context) on the risky changed symbols to review against everything that depends on them.

The graph tools analyze whatever is checked out at root, so check out the MR's branch first — otherwise you're reviewing the target branch, and the MR's new code isn't there. myopic worktree <mr-url> <repo> checks out the MR head in a throwaway worktree (your main checkout untouched) and prints the path to use as root. mr_review_context also warns when root doesn't hold the MR's head.

Fork PRs work too: a fork's branch doesn't exist on your remote, so GitHub PR heads are fetched via refs/pull/N/head, which the base repository serves whether the PR came from a branch or a fork.

Semantic search (built in — needs Ollama)

For "is this consistent with the rest of the codebase?" — duplication, convention drift, similar patterns — the semantic layer covers it. It's bundled in the base install (lancedb + httpx); the only external requirement is a running Ollama.

Embeddings come from a local Ollama server you run — your code never leaves your machine. myopic talks to Ollama over HTTP; it does not bundle or launch it. The one-time prerequisites:

1. Ollama running (default localhost:11434, or set MYOPIC_OLLAMA_URL).
2. The embedding model pulled: ollama pull unclemusclez/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code.

myopic doctor checks both and offers to pull the model for you.

Embeddings are stored in an embedded LanceDB index with hybrid (vector + full-text) search, and mr_review_context enriches each changed symbol with semantically similar code. You don't run index_repo by hand — it indexes the repo on the first review and refreshes when stale, automatically (disable with MYOPIC_AUTO_INDEX=0; the graph pass needs no index and always runs). index_repo / myopic index remain for explicit/cron use.

Indexing is incremental and freshness-aware. The first index_repo is a full build; after that only files whose content changed are re-embedded, so refreshing is cheap. index_status(root) reports whether the index is fresh, stale (with how many commits behind main), or built on a different model — freshness is measured against the repo's main line, not the current checkout, so reviewing a feature branch never marks the index stale; only main actually moving does. code_search and mr_review_context carry that status so a stale index never silently degrades a review; the AI is told to offer a refresh when it's stale.

The index is per repository, not per checkout — a myopic worktree at an MR's head shares its clone's index, so reviewing a new branch never rebuilds it; only the files that branch changed get re-embedded.

A separate clone of the same repo does get its own index, and a repo you delete leaves one behind. Indexing drops such dead copies automatically; to review and reclaim them yourself:

myopic prune            # dry-run: what's stale, and how much it's costing
myopic prune --apply    # delete them

A second clone you still use keeps its index — only unreachable ones are removed.

myopic is a stdio server (no background process), so there's no built-in scheduler — but myopic index /path/to/repo is the hook for one. Point cron or launchd at it to keep an index fresh out of band: