IDE Integration for Context-Aware Discussions

The Symposium MCP server includes a ide_operations tool that lets your agent work directly with the IDE to perform common operations like "find references" or "find definitions". It also supports free-text searches through the workspace.

How to use it

You shouldn't have to do anything, the IDE will simply make use of it when it sees fit.

How it works

The MCP tool accepts programs written in the "Dialect language", a very simple language that allows for complex expressions to be expressed. The intent is to eventually support a wide variety of operations and leverage smaller, dedicated models to translate plain English requests into those IDE operations. The MCP server then makes use of IPC to communicate with the IDE and access primitive operations which are implemented using the IDE's native capabilities (e.g., in VSCode, by asking the relevant Language Server).