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About Tenets

Tenets is an open-source intelligent code context platform that helps AI coding assistants understand your codebase better.

Our Mission

We believe AI coding assistants should have perfect context—not just the files you manually select, but the exact code relevant to your task, ranked by importance, and optimized for token budgets.

Tenets solves the "context problem" in AI-assisted development:

  • Too little context → AI hallucinates or misses dependencies
  • Too much context → Token limits exceeded, irrelevant noise
  • Manual selection → Time-consuming, error-prone

Tenets automatically finds, ranks, and aggregates the right code for every prompt.

How Tenets uses MCP

  • MCP Server: Tenets runs as a Model Context Protocol server so AI assistants can call it directly—no manual copy/paste.
  • Flow: You ask in your IDE → MCP routes to tenets-mcp → Tenets analyzes and ranks code → the assistant gets the curated context.
  • Why it matters: Better answers with the right files, fewer hallucinations, and tighter token budgets.
  • Supported IDEs: Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, and any MCP-capable client.
  • Privacy-first: Everything runs locally; no code or prompts leave your machine. Core features need zero API keys.

The Team

Johnny Dunn

Johnny Dunn

Creator & Lead Developer

Building tools at the intersection of AI and developer experience.

Built by manic.agency

Tenets is developed and maintained by manic.agency, a software development agency specializing in AI-powered developer tools and automation.

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Open Source

Tenets is 100% open source under the MIT license. We believe developer tools should be:

  • Transparent — See exactly how your code is processed
  • Private — All processing runs locally, no data leaves your machine
  • Extensible — Customize ranking, add plugins, integrate with your workflow
  • Community-driven — PRs welcome, issues addressed promptly

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