Qartez MCP

What it is

A code-intelligence server for agents rather than humans. It indexes the repository once and answers structural questions from the index: what a symbol is, who calls it, what breaks if it changes, and which files are risky.

What you get

• A core set of eight tools for daily use: a ranked project map, symbol lookup, indexed search, targeted source reads, file outlines, blast radius, dependency graphs and codebase metrics
• Eighteen analysis tools including references, call hierarchies, git co-change, dead exports, code clones, smells, security findings, authorship and bus factor, and shortest path between two symbols
• A prioritised health list that crosses hotspots with smells, plus an ordered refactor plan naming a technique per step with its expected complexity impact
• Seven refactor tools - rename, move, rename a file, replace a symbol, insert before or after one, and a safe delete that reports importers first - all in preview mode until you pass apply
• Meta tools for the build toolchain, an auto-generated architecture document, and adding project roots or workspace domains at runtime
• A discovery tool that lists the tiers and unlocks them on demand, for keeping the visible tool list small

Requirements

A one-line installer for macOS, Linux, WSL or Windows PowerShell; it verifies the download against the release checksums, installs the binaries, and configures the MCP-capable editors it finds. Indexing happens automatically when you open a project and a file watcher keeps it fresh. Rust 1.88 is needed only for the from-source fallback on unsupported platforms. Semantic search is optional and needs a downloaded model. Progressive mode hides all but the core tier at startup.

Setup effort

One command — curl -sSfL https://qartez.dev/install | sh

Tools you get

42 tools named in the project's documentation. All tools are available by default; QARTEZ_PROGRESSIVE=1 shows only the core tier and qartez_tools at startup.