ontomics MCP server
io.github.EtienneChollet/ontomics·v0.3.1·43 starsIndex your codebase's domain knowledge. 20x fewer tokens, 10x faster.
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ontomics tools
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Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-27 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- Code scan7 source files scanned15/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 164 days ago8/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (2)
- mediumnpm install lifecycle script present
install.script - mediumnpm install lifecycle script present
install.scriptpackage.json: …check": "prettier --check **/*.js", "postinstall": "node ./install.js" }, "supportedPl…
How ontomics compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 66/100
- higher than 23% of 48,255 servers
- GitHub stars
- 43
- more than 93% of 28,688 servers
Install ontomics in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
Runs npx -y @ontomics/ontomics on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.
claude mcp add ontomics -- npx -y @ontomics/ontomics
What the publisher says
From the ontomics repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
ontomics
ontomics gives any coding agent instant knowledge of your codebase. One tool call instead of 19. ~20x fewer tokens.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/01afa8a0-1bc2-4686-94d7-965fef7610c3
Visualization for the voxelmorph project -- a library for unsupervised learning in image registration
Benchmark
Tested with Claude Sonnet — same question, with and without ontomics.
"What does 'transform' mean in this codebase?" on voxelmorph (full transcript):
"What are the main domain concepts in this codebase?" on ScribblePrompt (full transcript):
Both conditions produced complete, correct answers. ontomics got there in one call.
What it does that search can't
Search tells you where a string appears. An LSP tells you where a symbol is defined and referenced. Neither answers: what are the domain concepts in this codebase? How do they relate? What naming conventions emerged? What changed in the domain vocabulary since last release? Which functions behave similarly, regardless of what they're named?
ontomics builds a semantic index of your project's domain — clustering related symbols into concepts, detecting naming conventions from usage frequency, resolving abbreviations, grouping functions by behavioral similarity, and tracking how the vocabulary evolves over time. That index can be exported as a portable artifact to bootstrap conventions in other repos.
Behavioral similarity
Beyond naming and concepts, ontomics embeds raw function bodies using CodeRankEmbed (768-dim, contrastive code retrieval) and clusters them by behavioral similarity. This surfaces relationships that neither naming nor call graphs expose:
❯ What functions behave like spatial_transform()?
random_transform() nn/functional.py:352 0.80
spatial_transform() functional.py:596 0.69
random_transform() functional.py:1399 0.67
random_disp() nn/functional.py:275 0.65
integrate_disp() functional.py:764 0.65
compose() nn/functional.py:216 0.63
disp_to_trf() functional.py:343 0.62Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
ontomics: common questions
- Is ontomics MCP server safe?
- With care: it is graded C, so read the findings first (66/100). Read the ontomics safety report
- How do I install ontomics?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does ontomics need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is ontomics maintained?
- The last commit was 201 days ago (2026-04-17). The latest release is v0.3.1.
- What can I use instead of ontomics?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Codebase Memory MCP server, Trace MCP server and Honcho MCP server.
- How does ontomics compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 66/100 (higher than 23% of 48,255 servers); github stars 43 (more than 93% of 28,688 servers). Full comparison.
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