mcp-gtags-server

Item: mcp-gtags-server
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

Provides fast, indexed code navigation (definitions, references, callers, etc.) for AI coding agents by leveraging GNU Global (gtags), dramatically reducing context noise compared to grep.

→ harshithsunku/mcp-gtags-server · listed on glama

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

configGTAGS_MCP_TRANSPORT

configGTAGS_MCP_HOST— 127.0.0.1 Bind address — set 0.0.0.0 to reach the server from other devices at http://<machine-ip>:8383/mcp

configGTAGS_MCP_PORT— 8383 HTTP port

configGTAGS_MCP_ROOT

configGTAGS_MCP_LABEL— Force a specific parser label with --label, , or label in .gtags-mcp.toml (e.g. default for native-only, pygments for plugin-everything).

configGTAGS_MCP_BIN_DIR— The server finds binaries in this order: --bin-dir//config bin_dir → ~/.gtags-mcp/bin → PATH → ~/.local/bin.

configGTAGS_MCP_HOME

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commit: 50c0b17de5fd89bfdf9f6a581c7144667446d839

code hash: f9bb62b1a788a9115cabf152e4a0f43f7759d750896e022245cc1bd40ccc1698

verified: 7/9/2026, 9:58:42 AM

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