MCP for coding agents

sprout mcp [root] speaks the Model Context Protocol over stdio. Agents get a map of the project in one call, instead of spending their context on ls -R, grep and reading files one by one. The root defaults to the directory the server starts in.

Set it up

Claude Code

claude mcp add sprout -- sprout mcp

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sprout": { "command": "sprout", "args": ["mcp"] }
  }
}

If your client doesn’t start servers in the project directory, pass the path: "args": ["mcp", "/path/to/project"].

Tools

Tool	Arguments	Returns
project_map	path?, budget?	The --ai map with key files. Its description tells agents to call it first
reading_order	path?	The --entry list
tree	path?, depth? (default 3), all?, git?, churn?, since?	A tree of a folder
diff_tree	rev, path?, depth?	The --diff view

Safety

An agent’s arguments are untrusted input, so:

• path must stay inside the root once .. and symlinks are resolved. Absolute paths and URLs are refused, so the server never clones anything.
• rev can’t become a git option.
• Output uses paths relative to the root, never your home directory.
• The server is read-only.