claude-context turns your whole codebase into Claude's working memory
Zilliztech's claude-context spent the day grinding up GitHub Trending — 6,531 stars, +259 today. It is an MCP server that gives any coding agent semantic search over your entire repo. AST-based code chunking, hybrid retrieval (BM25 plus dense embeddings), incremental indexing via Merkle trees so it does not re-embed unchanged files. The claim is roughly 40% token reduction versus stuffing the whole tree into context.
The lineup of clients it ships with is the real signal: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, plus a long list of others. Embedding side is OpenAI / VoyageAI / Ollama / Gemini. Vector store is Milvus or Zilliz Cloud — Zilliz being the parent company, which is also why the project keeps shipping. This is open source as Milvus distribution.
Why it is trending: every coding agent hits the context wall fast on a real codebase. You either compress, summarize, or retrieve. claude-context is one of the cleaner retrieval implementations because it is designed around code structure (AST chunks), not just text. With MCP being the lingua franca for these kinds of bolt-ons, it is now plug-and-play across most agents.
GitHub at github.com/zilliztech/claude-context. If you have been working past Claude's effective context limit on large repos, this is the obvious thing to try.
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The lineup of clients it ships with is the real signal: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, plus a long list of others. Embedding side is OpenAI / VoyageAI / Ollama / Gemini. Vector store is Milvus or Zilliz Cloud — Zilliz being the parent company, which is also why the project keeps shipping. This is open source as Milvus distribution.
Why it is trending: every coding agent hits the context wall fast on a real codebase. You either compress, summarize, or retrieve. claude-context is one of the cleaner retrieval implementations because it is designed around code structure (AST chunks), not just text. With MCP being the lingua franca for these kinds of bolt-ons, it is now plug-and-play across most agents.
GitHub at github.com/zilliztech/claude-context. If you have been working past Claude's effective context limit on large repos, this is the obvious thing to try.
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