Installation

Get CodeWiki MCP running in under a minute.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+
• Playwright Chromium — installed automatically via playwright install chromium

Option A — PyPI (recommended)

The simplest way. Install from PyPI and you get the codewiki-mcp command globally:

pip install codewiki-mcp
playwright install chromium

Verify it works:

codewiki-mcp --help

Option B — From Source

Clone the repository and install:

git clone https://github.com/Cloudmeru/CodeWiki-MCP.git
cd CodeWiki-MCP
pip install .
playwright install chromium

For development (includes pytest and test dependencies):

pip install -e ".[test]"

Option C — Docker

# Build the image
docker build -t codewiki-mcp .

# Run with stdio (for MCP clients)
docker run -it --rm codewiki-mcp

# Run with SSE (for HTTP access)
docker run -p 3000:3000 codewiki-mcp --sse --port 3000

# With custom config
docker run -e CODEWIKI_MAX_RETRIES=5 -e CODEWIKI_VERBOSE=true codewiki-mcp

CLI Options

codewiki-mcp [--stdio | --sse] [--port PORT] [--verbose | -v]

Flag	Description
--stdio	Run with stdio transport (default)
--sse	Run with SSE transport
--port PORT	Port for SSE transport (default: 3000)
--verbose, -v	Enable debug logging

Next Steps

Now connect it to your editor → Editor Setup