SourceParts/parts-mcp

The project is a standard wrapper implementing Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP). With only 1 star and no forks after 6 months, it shows no significant market traction or community adoption. In the rapidly evolving MCP ecosystem, value is concentrating in two places: the core protocol/IDE integrations (controlled by Anthropic, Cursor, and Microsoft) and the underlying data sources being bridged. This specific server acts as a thin shim for 'Source Parts'. Since MCP servers are designed to be lightweight and standardized, they possess almost no defensibility; any developer can recreate this functionality in a few hours using the official MCP SDK. Furthermore, frontier labs and advanced IDEs are increasingly building native codebase indexing (like Cursor's codebase indexing or GitHub Copilot's workspace search), which directly displaces the need for third-party code-search MCP servers unless they offer highly specialized, proprietary indexing logic. The lack of velocity and engagement indicates this is likely a personal experiment or a stalled prototype.