Stop Making Your AI Coding Agent Grep Your Whole Repo — Try codebase-memory-mcp

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If you use an AI coding agent — Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Zed, Aider, whatever — you've probably watched it burn through tens of thousands of tokens just trying to figure out who calls a function or where a route is defined. It greps, it reads files, it greps again, it reads more files. Eventually it answers your question, but it took a small forest of tokens and several tool calls to do it. <a href="https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp" rel="noopener noref

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