Code Intelligence Protocol

Standardizing how tools describe code.

SCIP (pronunciation: "skip") is a language-agnostic protocol for indexing source code, which can be used to power code navigation functionality such as Go to definition and Find references.

At a glance

Standardized index format
Language-agnostic schema for indexers
Interoperable tools and integrations

Indexers and tooling using SCIP

SCIP's standard index format is already emitted by a growing ecosystem of indexers across major languages, which is in tools like Sourcegraph, Mozilla Searchfox, rust-analyzer, and Glean.

C#, Visual Basic
C++, C
Dart
Go
Java, Scala, Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
TypeScript, JavaScript

Contribute to SCIP

Questions, suggestions, code, and docs contributions are welcome. The development docs outline project structure and common workflows. Find us on GitHub.