Local Search MCP for Claude Code

Semble is a local MCP server for Claude Code that returns only relevant code chunks instead of reading entire files from local or remote repositories.

• Replaces grep+read with 98% fewer tokens on average.
• Repository indexing takes about 250ms, and query responses take about 1.5ms.
• Runs CPU only, requiring no API keys, GPU, or heavy dependencies.

In benchmarks, it showed 99% of the quality of top-tier transformer hybrids, posting NDCG@10 0.854. The implementation combines static embeddings + BM25 + code-optimized reranking, and it was compared against existing approaches like grepai, probe, and colgrep.