MCP to help OSS devs understand explosion/spaCy

[ankitzm]

Hey explosion/spaCy folks,

spaCy is a big codebase, and I noticed newcomers are mostly confused about where to start. Digging through codebase through any AI agent will burn a lot of tokens for simplest task as it uses complete repo context.

I maintain bytebell/open-ir, an open-source tool that builds a cross-repo dependency + call graph of a codebase and serves it over MCP so devs can just ask how the code fits together.

Quick demo (MCP in action):

bytebell_mcp_demo.mp4

If this post gets 15+ 👍 from maintainers/devs, I'll index spaCy and stand up a free hosted MCP endpoint for contributors.

What this is and isn't:

• It helps contributors understand the code and answer their questions on codebase.
• It does NOT auto-file issues or PRs. Nothing touches your tracker.
• Free for the project, completely opt-in
• Reduces the overhead of juggling through files.
• Helps AI agent to generate code with better context

If that's interesting I'm happy to run it for the OSS community for explosion/spaCy.
— Ankit Singh