myopic

The code-review MCP with the most ironic name in the registry. It's anything but nearsighted — it reviews your merge request against the whole codebase, not just the diff in front of it.

<p align="center"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SurajKGoyal/myopic/main/assets/demo.svg" alt="A small diff changes formatPrice to return a string; a diff-only reviewer says it looks fine, but myopic checks the whole repo and finds 4 callers it breaks plus an existing duplicate — neither visible in the diff." width="720"> </p>

Building in public. Reviews GitLab merge requests and GitHub pull requests — pass either URL. Reads the change, reviews it against the whole codebase, and can post the review back as inline comments. Issues and PRs welcome.

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Why

The bugs that matter rarely live in the diff. They live in what it doesn't show: the caller three files away that now breaks, the convention every sibling file follows that this one quietly drops, the helper that already exists so this new one is a duplicate. A reviewer that only reads the patch is myopic.

myopic is an open-source MCP server that gives the AI client you already use (Claude, Cursor, …) the structured context to review like someone who knows the codebase. It runs on your machine — your code never leaves it, there's no per-PR bill, and the review happens in your own agent with your own standards:

• Read the change precisely — the diff as line-numbered hunks or grouped by function/class, token-safe on any MR size (a 10,000-line diff never overflows the context window).
• Review it against the whole codebase — who calls the changed code (blast radius), the caller/callee graph, and — optionally — semantically similar code so you catch broken conventions and duplication.

It pairs with amnesic, my MCP server that gives AI persistent memory of SQL databases.

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Tools

Everything below works today unless marked planned.

Read the merge request (token-safe by construction):

Tool	What it does
mr_review_status	MR metadata + every discussion thread + resolved/unresolved, in one call
mr_changed_files	a content-free manifest of changed files (paths, stats, noise flags) — no diff content, so it stays small even on a huge MR
mr_diff_sections	the diff grouped by function/class (AST-aware), budget-bounded
mr_diff_lines	the diff as line-numbered hunks — exact positions for inline comments — budget-bounded

On a large MR, the diff tools return a bounded page and list the rest under omitted_files / truncated instead of failing; lockfiles, generated code, and binaries are listed but not expanded. Fetch the rest with files_filter.

Review against the whole codebase (point at a local clone):

Tool	What it does
dependency_impact	everywhere a changed symbol is used — the blast radius (ripgrep + tree-sitter)
trace_call_chain	the caller/callee graph of a symbol
mr_review_context	the headline — for each changed symbol: its impact (always), plus semantically similar code when the optional layer is enabled

Semantic layer (built in — needs Ollama) — index_repo, code_search, and the semantic half of mr_review_context. See below.

Close the loop — verify, and (on request) comment:

Tool	What it does
mr_verify_review	for each existing review thread, the diff changes near the commented line — did a follow-up commit address it? (read-only)
mr_post_comments	the one write — post inline comments, one at a time from a queue with exponential backoff (no drafts, no bulk-publish), so partial progress survives and rate limits are respected

See ROADMAP.md for what's next.

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Install

pipx installs myopic isolated and on your PATH:

pipx install myopic

Prefer a plain venv? python3 -m venv ~/.venvs/myopic && ~/.venvs/myopic/bin/pip install myopic, then use that binary where the examples say myopic.

Setup

myopic needs a personal access token with api (or read_api) scope. The wizard walks you through it:

myopic init     # prompts for URL + token, verifies, saves both
myopic test     # ✓ Authenticated to https://gitlab.com as <you>
myopic doctor   # health-check config + (if enabled) the semantic layer

The token is saved to ~/.config/myopic/.env (chmod 600) and referenced from the TOML as ${GITLAB_TOKEN} — never in the config file itself. Rotate it with myopic set-secret, or hand-edit via myopic init --template.

GitHub PRs: just pass a PR URL. Set a GITHUB_TOKEN (a PAT with pull-request read access) in your environment or a [github] section in config.toml. For GitHub Enterprise, set [github].url to your host.

Add to your AI client

Claude Code — one command, no config editing:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/SurajKGoyal/myopic-marketplace
/plugin install myopic@myopic

Any other MCP client (Cursor, Claude Desktop, …) — point it at the myopic command:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "myopic": {
      "command": "myopic"
    }
  }
}

If your client can't find it on PATH, use the absolute path (pipx installs to ~/.local/bin/myopic).

Configure inline instead of myopic init

Put the token in the env block and skip the config file — myopic reads GITLAB_TOKEN / GITHUB_TOKEN from the environment:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "myopic": {
      "command": "myopic",
      "env": { "GITLAB_TOKEN": "glpat-…", "MYOPIC_AUTO_PULL": "1" }
    }
  }
}

MYOPIC_AUTO_PULL=1 (optional) pulls a missing embedding model on first use instead of erroring.

Use

Point your AI at a merge request:

"Review this MR: https://gitlab.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/42"

A good flow the client can follow: mr_changed_files to see the shape → mr_diff_sections (large MRs) or mr_diff_lines to read the change → then, with a local clone checked out, dependency_impact / trace_call_chain (or mr_review_context) on the risky changed symbols to review against everything that depends on them.

The graph tools analyze whatever is checked out at root, so check out the MR's branch first — otherwise you're reviewing the target branch, and the MR's new code isn't there. myopic worktree <mr-url> <repo> checks out the MR head in a throwaway worktree (your main checkout untouched) and prints the path to use as root. mr_review_context also warns when root doesn't hold the MR's head.

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Semantic search (built in — needs Ollama)

For "is this consistent with the rest of the codebase?" — duplication, convention drift, similar patterns — the semantic layer covers it. It's bundled in the base install (lancedb + httpx); the only external requirement is a running Ollama.

Embeddings come from a local Ollama server you run — your code never leaves your machine. myopic talks to Ollama over HTTP; it does not bundle or launch it. The one-time prerequisites:

1. Ollama running (default localhost:11434, or set MYOPIC_OLLAMA_URL).
2. The embedding model pulled: ollama pull unclemusclez/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code.

myopic doctor checks both and offers to pull the model for you.

Embeddings are stored in an embedded LanceDB index with hybrid (vector + full-text) search, and mr_review_context enriches each changed symbol with semantically similar code. You don't run index_repo by hand — it indexes the repo on the first review and refreshes when stale, automatically (disable with MYOPIC_AUTO_INDEX=0; the graph pass needs no index and always runs). index_repo / myopic index remain for explicit/cron use.

Indexing is incremental and freshness-aware. The first index_repo is a full build; after that only files whose content changed are re-embedded, so refreshing is cheap. index_status(root) reports whether the index is fresh, stale (with how many commits behind main), or built on a different model — freshness is measured against the repo's main line, not the current checkout, so reviewing a feature branch never marks the index stale; only main actually moving does. code_search and mr_review_context carry that status so a stale index never silently degrades a review; the AI is told to offer a refresh when it's stale.

The index is per repository, not per checkout — a myopic worktree at an MR's head shares its clone's index, so reviewing a new branch never rebuilds it; only the files that branch changed get re-embedded.

A separate clone of the same repo does get its own index, and a repo you delete leaves one behind. Indexing drops such dead copies automatically; to review and reclaim them yourself:

myopic prune            # dry-run: what's stale, and how much it's costing
myopic prune --apply    # delete them

A second clone you still use keeps its index — only unreachable ones are removed.

myopic is a stdio server (no background process), so there's no built-in scheduler — but myopic index /path/to/repo is the hook for one. Point cron or launchd at it to keep an index fresh out of band:

# refresh hourly (incremental — usually seconds)
0 * * * * myopic index /path/to/repo

Override the model/endpoint with MYOPIC_EMBED_MODEL / MYOPIC_OLLAMA_URL.

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Configuration reference

Source	Key	Notes
config.toml	[gitlab].url	GitLab base URL (default https://gitlab.com)
config.toml	[gitlab].token	use ${GITLAB_TOKEN} — don't hardcode
.env (next to config)	GITLAB_TOKEN	the actual token value (chmod 600)
env var	MYOPIC_GITLAB_URL / GITLAB_URL	fallback if no TOML
env var	MYOPIC_GITLAB_TOKEN / GITLAB_TOKEN	fallback if no TOML
env var	MYOPIC_CONFIG / MYOPIC_HOME	override the config file / directory
env var	MYOPIC_EMBED_MODEL / MYOPIC_OLLAMA_URL	semantic layer model + endpoint
env var	MYOPIC_AUTO_INDEX	0 to disable auto-indexing during review (default on)
env var	MYOPIC_AUTO_PULL	1 to auto-pull a missing embedding model on first use (default off)

Security

• One explicit write, everything else read-only. Only mr_post_comments mutates a review, and only when you ask for it — every other tool just reads MR and repo data. The write is never speculative.
• Your token stays local. It lives in your .env / environment and is sent only to your configured GitLab instance — never to any third party.
• Auth errors are scrubbed so your token never leaks into error messages.
• The semantic layer runs entirely locally (your Ollama, an on-disk index) — your code is never sent to a third party.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest                           # hermetic — no network, Ollama, or lancedb needed

License

MIT © Suraj Goyal

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