Build Your Own MCP Server: A Repo-Agnostic File Search Tool for AI Assistants

I often find that the results from AI tools are opinionated. You ask Claude or Cursor to find something in your codebase and it gives you a best guess, or it uses its own heuristics to decide what's relevant. Sometimes it misses files entirely. You could just grep , but let's be honest, piping grep through awk and sorting results across 500 files isn't exactly a great developer experience. What I wanted was simple: give my AI assistant the ability to actually search my files properly. Not guess.