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DimensionCodacy MCP ServerQuery Codacy's code quality, security, and coverage analysis via MCP.Context7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS56 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions10 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance10 / 2017 / 20
Documentation15 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Teams already using the Codacy platform for code quality and security management
  • Developers who want Codacy analysis results directly inside Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot, or Claude Desktop
  • Teams that want to check pull request issues and coverage as part of an AI coding assistant workflow
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Users without a Codacy account, or who don't intend to register repositories with Codacy
  • Scenarios requiring generic static analysis or security scanning independent of the Codacy platform
  • Restricted environments where Node.js/npx or the Codacy CLI cannot be installed
  • Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
  • Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
Required permissions
  • Accesses organizations and repositories the user has permission to on Codacy, via the CODACY_ACCOUNT_TOKEN personal account token
  • Reads repository analysis results, issues, coverage, security findings, and pull request data
  • Executes the Codacy CLI locally to analyze code on the filesystem (attempts automatic installation of the CLI)
  • Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
  • Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
Risks and side effects
  • CODACY_ACCOUNT_TOKEN is a sensitive credential; if leaked it could grant access to all Codacy organizations and repositories tied to the account
  • codacy_cli_analyze installs and runs the Codacy CLI locally, which involves executing a third-party binary
  • Security-related tools (SRM items) surface repository vulnerability and secret-scanning results, so access and downstream handling should be controlled
  • The server depends on network access to the Codacy API; misconfigured credentials could expose data to unintended clients
  • The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
  • Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub CopilotClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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