Show HN: Anvil – a multi-repo AI pipeline and an MCP server for code search

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agents, code-search, multi-repo, mcp-server, developer-tools

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Anvil is a multi-repo AI pipeline that ships features across distributed codebases using an 8-stage agent workflow, plus an MCP server for semantic code search. It's interesting because it combines AST-parsed knowledge graphs, cross-repo dependency detection, and convention learning to give AI agents architectural awareness of complex systems.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, full-stack engineers

Repository: https://github.com/esanmohammad/Anvil · TypeScript · MIT

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