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Vibe Hnindex MCP Server

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Vibe Hnindex runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 95 installs a week from npm. Last commit 15 Jun 2026.

Index source code into a local knowledge base, search with keyword + semantic + hybrid modes.

Installs per day peak 45 · avg 14 · -6% w/w
a month agotoday
95
Installs / week
npm · vibe-hnindex
4
Stars
0 open issues
15 Jun 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 22 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

  const result = spawnSync(cmd, ['update', '-g', 'hnindex-cli'], {
      : path.join(project.rootPath, edit.file_path);

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add vibe-hnindex -- npx -y vibe-hnindex
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vibe-hnindex": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vibe-hnindex"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.vibe-hnindex]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "vibe-hnindex"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vibe-hnindex": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vibe-hnindex"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vibe-hnindex": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vibe-hnindex"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: OLLAMA_URL (Ollama embedding server URL), OLLAMA_MODEL (Ollama embedding model name (default: bge-m3:567m)), QDRANT_URL (Qdrant vector database URL), STORAGE_PATH (SQLite database storage path). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Vibe Hnindex — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Vibe Hnindex?
Vibe Hnindex runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package vibe-hnindex was installed 95 times last week.
How do I connect Vibe Hnindex?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls vibe-hnindex straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Vibe Hnindex?
The npm package vibe-hnindex was installed 95 times in the last week. Week over week that is -6%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Vibe Hnindex open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 4 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.