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mcp-neovim-server

Control Neovim using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the official neovim/node-client JavaScript library

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What it is

Control Neovim using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the official neovim/node-client JavaScript library

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Observed mentions: 2025-03-31 16:30:15 UTC to 2026-04-08 18:09:17 UTC.

012025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 2026

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What Hacker News says

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jauntywundrkind·Apr 8, 2026
Nice stuff. I keep wanting to be more speech oriented but it's been hard to get myself to move to that. I like how you use the accessibility APIs to get data out; that feels like such crucial leverage point for expanding agency! > When you press the hotkey, macOS Accessibility APIs read the selected text and line numbers from the active editor window. If the Accessibility API doesn't return selected text (some apps don't support it), Voxcode falls back to simulating Cmd+C. Regarding working with code, I've quite enjoyed using the mcp-neovim-server. Asking it to show & select pertinent lines can be helpful, especially when there's multiple file references at once. Turning this around & asking the LLM to get data out would be possible, but as you say, this would be IDE specific. Ideally there would be some good cross-IDE MCP tools. https://
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github.com/bigcodegen/mcp-neovim-server
In Show HN: Voxcode: local speech to text and ripgrep = transcript and code context
jauntywundrkind·Feb 15, 2026
I used mcp-neovim-server to let my LLM control my vim session. that way it can debug and test and poke around. It's crazy good at debugging plugins. It's absurd how little these things need to look-up docs; half these models are just out the box wildly good at vim. "Open these files on these lines" and now there are four splits with me at the relevant line numbers. Awesome. And it'll explain how to do things & test it out & validate! https://github.com/bigcodegen/mcp-neovim-server That was a little tricky to set-up. I ended up writing nvim-auto-listen, which uses some heuristics to find your project root, and starts a .nvim.socket in that directory. That makes it easy for mcp-neovim-server instances to find. https://github.com/rektide/nvim-auto-listen/ I'm only somewhat getting started, but the workmanship, fit and finish is just outstan
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ding on Codecompanion, for a fantastically well put together in vim agentic experience. Works really well driving a headless opencode mcp. Being able to stay in vim but still get a great opencode powered experience has been mind blowingly sick. https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim
In Vim 9.2
jauntywundrkind·Jan 29, 2026
I spent some time trying to understand what OpenCode.nvim gave me, could do for me. It felt mostly like ways to take nvim things and inject them into OpenCode. Which was fine I guess. I'm probably underselling it, but I was hoping for more, and it never really clicked. https://github.com/nickjvandyke/opencode.nvim I find myself spending much more time in OpenCode than in nvim these days. With mcp-neovim-server, it's super easy to keep vim open & ask OpenCode to show me, to open files, go to lines. This didn't require any nvim tweaking at all, it's just giving the LLM access to my nvim. It is absolutely wild how good glm-4.7 has been at opening friendly splits, at debugging really gnarly wild nvim configuration problems that have plagued me for years. It knows way way way more nvim than I do, and that somehow surprised me. https://github.c
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om/bigcodegen/mcp-neovim-server Definitely interest in the ACP angle. I feel like we're in a weird spot where ACP is this protocol where the thing you do use talks to the headless thing you don't ever see. I'd love to know or see more than that. These connections feel 1:1, but I want to see human interaction in every agentic system, not for there to be this me -> ide -> ACP agent flow with the ide intermediating all, being the sole UI. It should be able to do that yes!! But I also want an expectation that there can be multiple forces "driving" an ACP service. I've watched the video now. It's still not crystal clear to me architecturally is going on, but it does seem like a fairly robust emacs shell experience that wraps the agent flow. I really enjoy the idea of having this overlayed compose buffer, that is your editor style input. I'd love to know how that is wired to the agents; is that input sent over ACP? Is that just sending to the shell? This compose buffer feels like it may be a broader emacs pattern. One I'd love to see in nvim! Years ago I had a plugin that would take the selection or current line and send it to a buffer. That was my very crude compose buffer.
In Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP

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