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Coding assistant MCP for Claude Desktop

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2025-03-13 · latest 2025-04-21

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  1. …Which is what you want often, but it can also uncontrollably spiral into its own hallucinations. https://github.com/ezyang/codemcp Is really nice because it’s a lot cheaper, but this kind of stuff and the lack of caching is pushing me…
    comment by dep_b · 2025-04-21 · in Meta MCP: Chaining Tools via Prompt-Driven Arguments
  2. …in Zed. - diferent approaches but both very effective. https://github.com/SDGLBL/mcp-claude-code https://github.com/ezyang/codemcp
    comment by chewz · 2025-04-19 · in Claude Code Alternatives?
  3. I’ve been using codemcp ( https://github.com/ezyang/codemcp ) to get “most” of the functionality of Claude code (I believe it uses prompts extracted from Claude Code), but using my existing pro plan. It’s less autonomous, since it’s based…
    comment by twalkz · 2025-04-19 · in Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
  4. I'm going to try out yours ( https://github.com/ezyang/codemcp ). I already pay for Cursor, but I'm curious. EDIT: I really like the way that each change generates a commit, and that all commits in a single session are squashed into one…
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2025-03-19 · in Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
  5. Most of the problem is installing the MCP servers, which is more annoying on Windows. https://github.com/ezyang/codemcp#getting-started has instructions that I've personally tested for installation on Windows, which might help you out some.
    comment by ezyang · 2025-03-19 · in Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
  6. You can try (self promo) https://github.com/ezyang/codemcp . https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw is also quite popular, although they allow unrestricted shell access (that's why it's named wcgw lol).
    comment by ezyang · 2025-03-19 · in Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
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    Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills
    story by ezyang · 2025-03-13 · 36 comments
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    Codemcp – make Claude Desktop a pair programming assistant
    story by bobrenjc93 · 2025-03-13 · 0 comments