CodeOnboard MCP

Developer onboarding is broken. New engineers joining a team spend days; sometimes weeks exploring unfamiliar codebases, interrupting senior developers with repetitive questions, and reading outdated documentation that no longer reflects the actual code. CodeOnboard fixes this by giving IBM Bob IDE the ability to instantly analyze any GitHub repository and generate a comprehensive onboarding guide powered by IBM watsonx AI. A developer types one sentence in Bob IDE, and CodeOnboard fetches the repository, analyzes the tech stack and architecture, and produces a structured ONBOARDING.md with architecture diagrams, setup instructions, key module explanations, entry points, first-week tasks, and a project-specific glossary. The system is built as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that integrates directly into Bob IDE as a tool. Bob reads the entire repository in context; not just snippets, and generates content that references actual file paths and function names, not generic advice. CodeOnboard is deployed as a remote SSE MCP server, meaning any developer with a compatible IDE can connect to it without installing anything locally. While built for IBM Bob IDE, it works with any MCP-compatible client including Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, and Continue.dev; making it accessible to any developer regardless of their editor. It targets engineering teams, developer agencies, and open source maintainers who need to reduce onboarding friction and free senior developers from being human documentation. Built entirely in partnership with IBM Bob during the 48-hour IBM Bob Hackathon 2026.