tabnine

A setup guide for connecting the CCE code-context service to Tabnine’s AI coding agent. It creates Tabnine’s project settings and instruction files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize CCE for Tabnine, register the service, add retrieval instructions, restart Tabnine, and check tool calls or tracked queries.
Why use it?
It avoids manually editing Tabnine’s integration files and helps verify that the connection and code searches are working.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/elara-labs/code-context-engine/tabnine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elara-labs/code-context-engine
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 374 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00011 $0.00374
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash 575141ecd5b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tabnine scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs-src/src/content/docs/agents/tabnine.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Tabnine uses a project-local settings file and an instruction file for MCP integration.

Quick setup

cce init              # Auto-detects Tabnine if .tabnine/ exists
cce init --agent all  # Explicitly includes Tabnine

Files created

.tabnine/agent/settings.json

Registers the CCE MCP server for Tabnine's agent.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "context-engine": {
      "command": "cce",
      "args": ["serve", "--project-dir", "/path/to/your/project"]
    }
  }
}

TABNINE.md

Contains instructions for Tabnine to prefer context_search for code retrieval. The CCE block is wrapped in markers so your own content is preserved during upgrades.

Verify it's working

  1. Restart Tabnine after running cce init
  2. Use Tabnine's chat to ask a code question
  3. Check for context_search tool calls in the output
  4. Run cce savings to verify queries are tracked

Troubleshooting

Tabnine doesn't detect the MCP server

Check .tabnine/agent/settings.json exists and contains the context-engine entry. If missing, re-run cce init --agent all.

"cce: command not found"

Ensure cce is on your PATH. Add ~/.local/bin to your shell profile if installed with uv tool install.

Auto-detection doesn't find Tabnine

CCE looks for a .tabnine/ directory in the project root. If it doesn't exist, use cce init --agent all to force configuration.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 56 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 575141ecd5b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tabnine is an agent published in the GitHub repository elara-labs/code-context-engine (407 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 374 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.