cerebro-code-memory: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cerebro-code-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from marcodavidd020/cerebro-code-memory. It costs 1,095 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Cerebro, a Python server that stores a codebase's structure and meaning in a local SQLite database so an AI agent can query it later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before changing Cerebro, particularly when adding tools, editing its Python modules, running tests, or checking that information stays on the local machine.
Why use it?
They explain the real project architecture, dependencies, privacy rule, testing setup, and the established pattern for adding new MCP tools.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is marcodavidd020/cerebro-code-memory's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cerebro-code-memory itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything cerebro-code-memory configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to marcodavidd020/cerebro-code-memory. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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CLAUDE.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Cerebro

Estándares reales de este proyecto. Cárgalos antes de proponer o escribir código. Si algo aquí contradice al código actual, gana el código: verifícalo y actualiza este archivo.

Qué es

MCP server en Python que cachea el entendimiento de un codebase en un SQLite ("brain") para que sesiones de chat lo consulten en vez de re-leer carpetas. La consigna de todo el proyecto: salida token-barata.

Stack (verificado en pyproject.toml)

  • Python >=3.10. Server con FastMCP (paquete mcp>=1.2.0).
  • Deps núcleo: tree-sitter + tree-sitter-language-pack, networkx, pathspec.
  • Semántica opcional detrás del extra semantic: model2vec, numpy. Sin torch, sin API keys, nada sale de la máquina — invariante de privacidad.
  • Tests: pytest (en .venv). Build: hatchling, paquete en src/cerebro.

Arquitectura (una responsabilidad por módulo, en src/cerebro/)

  • server.py — superficie de tools MCP (@mcp.tool()). Delgada: arma texto compacto y delega la lógica.
  • cli.py — entrypoint CLI unificado (cerebro <subcomando>).
  • config.py — Config.load(); resuelve raíz (CEREBRO_ROOT o git) y db_path.
  • db.py — conexión SQLite + queries de bajo nivel (módulo más central; casi todo depende de él).
  • indexer.py — parseo tree-sitter: símbolos, edges, hashes; reindex/diff.
  • graph.py — grafo de dependencias (dependencies/dependents) sobre networkx.
  • insights.py — impact, cycles, orphans, dead_symbols.
  • callgraph.py — callers/calls (resueltos por nombre).
  • summaries.py / summarizer.py — guardar/leer resúmenes; warming batch vía claude -p headless.
  • embeddings.py — búsqueda semántica model2vec (opcional).
  • notes.py — log de decisiones. gitsync.py — frescura git-aware. tsconfig.py — alias tsconfig/jsconfig.
  • views.py — render de texto (map_text, recall_text). viz.py — HTML del grafo + export Obsidian. docaudit.py — living docs.

Convenciones (observadas en el código, respétalas)

  • from __future__ import annotations; type hints modernos (X | None, no Optional).
  • Toda tool MCP devuelve string compacto. Acota listas con helpers tipo _join_capped y caps (_DEP_CAP, _SYM_CAP). No vuelques datos sin límite: el ahorro de tokens es el producto.
  • Docstrings explican el porqué (economía de tokens, invariantes), no lo obvio.
  • Rutas: siempre normaliza a clave repo-relativa con _resolve_path antes de tocar la DB. Saltarse esto rompe la persistencia entre sesiones.
  • Resúmenes y notas del brain se escriben en inglés (tokeniza más barato), densos, 1-3 frases.
  • Scripts CLI: cada uno expone un main() a nivel módulo (ver [project.scripts]).
  • Tests: fixtures de DB en memoria construyendo edges a mano (ver tests/).

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cerebro-code-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository marcodavidd020/cerebro-code-memory (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,095 tokens to every session, about $0.0044 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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