- MCP Server: code-to-tree
- Using code-to-tree
- Configure MCP Clients
- Building (Windows)
- Building (macOS)
The code-to-tree server's goals are:
- Give LLMs the capability of accurately converting source code into AST(Abstract Syntax Tree), regardless of language.
- One standalone binary should be everything the MCP client needs.
These goals imply:
- The underlying syntax parser should be versatile enough. Here we choose tree-sitter, and languages are: C, C++, Rust, Ruby, Go, Java, Python.
- The server should be able to carry all capabilities within itself, imposing minimum software dependencies on the end user's machine. Here we choose mcpc.
Screenshots:
The above screenshots are obtained by asking the question specified in q.md.
(IMPORTANT NOTE: LLMs have no responsibility of generating the identical result for the same question, you will likely get a completely different style or content. The screenshots or questions provided here are just for the reference)
Before everthing, 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 at GitHub release page or build it yourself. Once downloaded, you configure your MCP clients to install it, check the section "Configure MCP Clients" for more details.
Here we use Claude as the example.
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" } } } 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" } } } - download & install MSYS2.
- open application "MSYS2 MINGW64"
- run
pacman -S make gcc git
Here we need to compile and install tree-sitter and all related grammars.
Clone them:
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 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 - Xcode Command Line Tools
Here we need to compile and install tree-sitter and all related grammars.
Clone them:
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 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