**Scalpel – give AI coding agents get\_symbol() instead of a whole file**

> Symbol-level codebase retrieval MCP server: get\_symbol(name) returns a definition span + usages, never a whole file - amritessh/scalpel-mcp scalpel Your agent asks "where is collectDefinitions defined?" Here's the same question, answered two ways, on this exact codebase: That's not a mockup — it's real output from running this tool against its own source. Same answer, 90% fewer tokens, because it never reads the file...

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：论文
- **发布时间**：2026-09-16 00:10（北京时间）
- **原文**：[打开原文](https://github.com/amritessh/scalpel-mcp)