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LemonCrow vs code-index-mcp

What code-index-mcp says, vs. what it scored.

Tree-sitter AST indexing for 10 core languages, with fallback file indexing for 50+ more.

What code-index-mcp says about itself
“Intelligent code indexing and analysis for Large Language Models... bridges the gap between AI models and complex codebases.”
Publishes no numbers ...never against another search tool ~943 stars ↗
What it actually scored — same 14 repos, same 7,213 queries as every other tool
Tool MRR p95 p100
LemonCrow +semantic (BGE) 0.727 390ms 1057ms
LemonCrow lexical (default) 0.676 134ms 319ms
code-index-mcp 0.343 377ms 3830ms

No performance or accuracy claim published. Mid-pack here: 0.343 MRR, 377ms p95.

By query kind -- same benchmark, broken out (no reps in this eval: one deterministic pass per query)
Kind LemonCrow +semantic LemonCrow lexical code-index-mcp
definition 0.873 (n=1570) 0.871 (n=1570) 0.562(n=1570)
content 0.873 (n=1444) 0.864 (n=1444) 0.684(n=1444)
semantic 0.759 (n=1800) 0.576 (n=1800) 0.003(n=1800)
swebench 0.500 (n=1908) 0.493 (n=1908) 0.258(n=1908)
sessions 0.587 (n=491) 0.571 (n=491) 0.214(n=491)

n = query/gold pairs of that kind, out of 7,213 total -- every provider scored on all 5 kinds.

By repo -- all 15 repos in the corpus, same query set
Repo LemonCrow +semantic LemonCrow lexical code-index-mcp
astropy/astropy 0.772 0.715 0.428
atelier-ws/atelier-dev 0.467 0.477 0.238
atelier/atelier 0.594 0.557 0.265
django/django 0.689 0.652 0.245
matplotlib/matplotlib 0.801 0.747 0.357
mwaskom/seaborn 0.814 0.768 0.420
pallets/flask 0.735 0.671 0.297
psf/requests 0.840 0.803 0.464
pydata/xarray 0.815 0.764 0.429
pylint-dev/pylint 0.856 0.784 0.452
pytest-dev/pytest 0.826 0.739 0.461
scikit-learn/scikit-learn 0.740 0.669 0.286
sphinx-doc/sphinx 0.637 0.580 0.288
sympy/sympy 0.694 0.637 0.321
torvalds/linux 0.726 0.668 0.359

MRR per repo: n-weighted blend across all 5 query kinds, same 7,213-query run.

The true story

Same 14 repositories, same 7,213 query/gold pairs as every tool here, code-index-mcp included. Full methodology, every raw number, and the other 9 tools →