Installing Kodit

Unlike many MCP tools, Kodit is designed to run as a server. You’re welcome to use the public server, but if you want to index your own private repositories then you should deploy your own server.

Kodit is a Python-based webserver that hosts a REST API and an MCP server. Although most people install Kodit remotely in a container, you can also install it as a package.

Docker

docker run -it --rm registry.helix.ml/helix/kodit:latest

Always replace latest with a specific version.

homebrew

brew install helixml/kodit/kodit

uv

uv tool install kodit

pipx

pipx install kodit

pip

Use this if you want to use kodit as a python library:

pip install kodit

(Requires Python 3.12+)