Vim

About

Vim-mcp serves as a bridge between your Vim editor and AI models like Claude Code, allowing you to interact with and control Vim using natural language prompts. It establishes a Unix socket server to which multiple Vim instances connect, enabling the AI to query Vim's current state (buffers, windows, cursor position) and execute complex Vim commands. This tool shines when the exact keystrokes for an operation are unknown, empowering users to describe desired actions to the AI, which then constructs and executes the appropriate Vim commands, significantly enhancing productivity for tasks like intricate regex/macros or semantic help searches.

Key Features

• Connects AI models (e.g., Claude Code) to multiple Vim instances
• Queries Vim state including buffers, windows, and cursor position
• Executes Vim commands via natural language prompts from AI
• Provides tools to search Vim help using AI
• Enables recording and management of Vim macros through AI commands
• 3 GitHub stars

Use Cases

• Quickly generating, modifying, and re-executing AI-suggested Vim commands from history
• Executing complex Vim commands like advanced regex substitutions, which are difficult to construct manually
• Streamlining operations where the number of keystrokes is unknown, such as semantic search within Vim's help system