# Mcp Language Server

> mcp-language-server gives MCP enabled clients access semantic tools like get definition, references, rename, and diagnostics.

- **Type:** MCP server
- **Install:** `agentstack add mcp-isaacphi-mcp-language-server`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [isaacphi](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/isaacphi)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Search](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/search)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** BSD-3-Clause
- **Upstream author:** [isaacphi](https://github.com/isaacphi)
- **Source:** https://github.com/isaacphi/mcp-language-server

## Install

```sh
agentstack add mcp-isaacphi-mcp-language-server
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# MCP Language Server

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[](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/isaacphi/mcp-language-server)
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This is an [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) server that runs and exposes a [language server](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/) to LLMs. Not a language server for MCP, whatever that would be.

## Demo

`mcp-language-server` helps MCP enabled clients navigate codebases more easily by giving them access semantic tools like get definition, references, rename, and diagnostics.

## Setup

1. **Install Go**: Follow instructions at 
2. **Install or update this server**: `go install github.com/isaacphi/mcp-language-server@latest`
3. **Install a language server**: _follow one of the guides below_
4. **Configure your MCP client**: _follow one of the guides below_

  Go (gopls)
  
    Install gopls: go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest
    Configure your MCP client: This will be different but similar for each client. For Claude Desktop, add the following to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "language-server": {
      "command": "mcp-language-server",
      "args": ["--workspace", "/Users/you/dev/yourproject/", "--lsp", "gopls"],
      "env": {
        "PATH": "/opt/homebrew/bin:/Users/you/go/bin",
        "GOPATH": "/users/you/go",
        "GOCACHE": "/users/you/Library/Caches/go-build",
        "GOMODCACHE": "/Users/you/go/pkg/mod"
      }
    }
  }
}

Note: Not all clients will need these environment variables. For Claude Desktop you will need to update the environment variables above based on your machine and username:

  PATH needs to contain the path to go and to gopls. Get this with echo $(which go):$(which gopls)
  GOPATH, GOCACHE, and GOMODCACHE may be different on your machine. These are the defaults.

  

  Rust (rust-analyzer)
  
    Install rust-analyzer: rustup component add rust-analyzer
    Configure your MCP client: This will be different but similar for each client. For Claude Desktop, add the following to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "language-server": {
      "command": "mcp-language-server",
      "args": [
        "--workspace",
        "/Users/you/dev/yourproject/",
        "--lsp",
        "rust-analyzer"
      ]
    }
  }
}

  

  Python (pyright)
  
    Install pyright: npm install -g pyright
    Configure your MCP client: This will be different but similar for each client. For Claude Desktop, add the following to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "language-server": {
      "command": "mcp-language-server",
      "args": [
        "--workspace",
        "/Users/you/dev/yourproject/",
        "--lsp",
        "pyright-langserver",
        "--",
        "--stdio"
      ]
    }
  }
}

  

  Typescript (typescript-language-server)
  
    Install typescript-language-server: npm install -g typescript typescript-language-server
    Configure your MCP client: This will be different but similar for each client. For Claude Desktop, add the following to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "language-server": {
      "command": "mcp-language-server",
      "args": [
        "--workspace",
        "/Users/you/dev/yourproject/",
        "--lsp",
        "typescript-language-server",
        "--",
        "--stdio"
      ]
    }
  }
}

  

  C/C++ (clangd)
  
    Install clangd: Download prebuilt binaries from the official LLVM releases page or install via your system's package manager (e.g., apt install clangd, brew install clangd).
    Configure your MCP client: This will be different but similar for each client. For Claude Desktop, add the following to ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "language-server": {
      "command": "mcp-language-server",
      "args": [
        "--workspace",
        "/Users/you/dev/yourproject/",
        "--lsp",
        "/path/to/your/clangd_binary",
        "--",
        "--compile-commands-dir=/path/to/yourproject/build_or_compile_commands_dir"
      ]
    }
  }
}

    Note:
    
      Replace /path/to/your/clangd_binary with the actual path to your clangd executable.
      --compile-commands-dir should point to the directory containing your compile_commands.json file (e.g., ./build, ./cmake-build-debug).
      Ensure compile_commands.json is generated for your project for clangd to work effectively.
    
  

  Other
  
    I have only tested this repo with the servers above but it should be compatible with many more. Note:
    
      The language server must communicate over stdio.
      Any aruments after -- are sent as arguments to the language server.
      Any env variables are passed on to the language server.
    
  

## Tools

- `definition`: Retrieves the complete source code definition of any symbol (function, type, constant, etc.) from your codebase.
- `references`: Locates all usages and references of a symbol throughout the codebase.
- `diagnostics`: Provides diagnostic information for a specific file, including warnings and errors.
- `hover`: Display documentation, type hints, or other hover information for a given location.
- `rename_symbol`: Rename a symbol across a project.
- `edit_file`: Allows making multiple text edits to a file based on line numbers. Provides a more reliable and context-economical way to edit files compared to search and replace based edit tools.

## About

This codebase makes use of edited code from [gopls](https://go.googlesource.com/tools/+/refs/heads/master/gopls/internal/protocol) to handle LSP communication. See ATTRIBUTION for details. Everything here is covered by a permissive BSD style license.

[mcp-go](https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go) is used for MCP communication. Thank you for your service.

This is beta software. Please let me know by creating an issue if you run into any problems or have suggestions of any kind.

## Contributing

Please keep PRs small and open Issues first for anything substantial. AI slop O.K. as long as it is tested, passes checks, and doesn't smell too bad.

### Setup

Clone the repo:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/isaacphi/mcp-language-server.git
cd mcp-language-server
```

A [justfile](https://just.systems/man/en/) is included for convenience:

```bash
just -l
Available recipes:
    build    # Build
    check    # Run code audit checks
    fmt      # Format code
    generate # Generate LSP types and methods
    help     # Help
    install  # Install locally
    snapshot # Update snapshot tests
    test     # Run tests
```

Configure your Claude Desktop (or similar) to use the local binary:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "language-server": {
      "command": "/full/path/to/your/clone/mcp-language-server/mcp-language-server",
      "args": [
        "--workspace",
        "/path/to/workspace",
        "--lsp",
        "language-server-executable"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LOG_LEVEL": "DEBUG"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Rebuild after making changes.

### Logging

Setting the `LOG_LEVEL` environment variable to DEBUG enables verbose logging to stderr for all components including messages to and from the language server and the language server's logs.

### LSP interaction

- `internal/lsp/methods.go` contains generated code to make calls to the connected language server.
- `internal/protocol/tsprotocol.go` contains generated code for LSP types. I borrowed this from `gopls`'s source code. Thank you for your service.
- LSP allows language servers to return different types for the same methods. Go doesn't like this so there are some ugly workarounds in `internal/protocol/interfaces.go`.

### Local Development and Snapshot Tests

There is a snapshot test suite that makes it a lot easier to try out changes to tools. These run actual language servers on mock workspaces and capture output and logs.

You will need the language servers installed locally to run them. There are tests for go, rust, python, and typescript.

```
integrationtests/
├── tests/        # Tests are in this folder
├── snapshots/    # Snapshots of tool outputs
├── test-output/  # Gitignored folder showing the final state of each workspace and logs after each test run
└── workspaces/   # Mock workspaces that the tools run on
```

To update snapshots, run `UPDATE_SNAPSHOTS=true go test ./integrationtests/...`

## Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [isaacphi](https://github.com/isaacphi)
- **Source:** [isaacphi/mcp-language-server](https://github.com/isaacphi/mcp-language-server)
- **License:** BSD-3-Clause

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

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