Install codebase-memory-mcp and index Odoo instances by parts inside containers following the Vauxoo layout:
/home/odoo/instance/odoo
/home/odoo/instance/extra_addons/*
This tool only runs inside such a container (or SSH session) as user odoo; it refuses to start
when /home/odoo/instance/odoo/odoo-bin is missing. It always indexes the real instance path —
never an rsync/copy — so later code references and edits target the right files.
pip install codebase-memory-deployvcodebase-memory-deployvThat single command:
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Installs
codebase-memory-mcpin the local environment when it is not available yet. -
Resolves a stable project name from
${MAIN_REPO_FULL_PATH}/variables.sh, or from${MAIN_REPO_PATH}/variables.shrelative to--repo-path(PROJECT=${MAIN_APP}_${VERSION}, e.g.vauxoo_12.0), so each container/customer gets its own graph and every pass reuses the same--name. Both variables are exported by deployv and point at the one repo that ownsMAIN_APP/VERSION; only when neither is set does it fall back to globbingextra_addons/*/variables.sh, which is ambiguous when several repos ship one. -
Picks the module list, in this order:
--modules-filegiven → the modules listed there (see below).- Database reachable through
odoo-bin shell→ only installed modules fromir.module.module(notest_*addon modules, keeping backend unit tests inside real modules), listed bylist_installed_modules.pywhich is fed to the shell. - Neither → every addon module found on disk.
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Renders
.cbmignore(Odoo coreodoo/odoocomplete + selected modules, droppingstatic/lib,static/tests, minified JS, caches and.git) in cumulative batches of 25 modules, runningcodebase-memory-mcp cli index_repositoryafter each batch so memory-killed one-shot indexing is never a problem. -
Validates the graph scope: no
test_*addon modules indexed, no missing and no extra module roots compared to the expected module list, and every indexed file carrying one of the configured extensions (SOURCE_GLOBS:.py .xml .js .rst .md .css .scss .csv) — anything else means.cbmignoredid not apply. Counts per extension are logged, unexpected ones marked(!):extensions_configured=.css,.csv,.js,.md,.py,.rst,.scss,.xml extensions_indexed=5 files=12057 extension .py files=4949 extension .xml files=3276 extension .json files=39 (!) unexpected_extensions=1 files=39 (not in SOURCE_GLOBS: .json)Both checks read the graph with
query_graphover itsFilenodes, not withsearch_code: that one greps the indexed files and hard-caps the scan at 500 matched lines whatever--limitsays, which reports the tail of a real instance (Odoo 19 alone ships 533 manifests) as missing.
--repo-path PATH instance root to index (default: /home/odoo/instance)
--project NAME graph name; default derives MAIN_APP_VERSION from variables.sh
--batch-size N modules per cumulative indexing pass; 0 indexes one-shot (default: 25)
--mode MODE auto (default), installed, or all
--modules-file PATH ir.module.module export listing the modules to index
--skip-install do not install codebase-memory-mcp when missing
--skip-validate do not validate graph scope after indexing
A local docker container only installs the modules of the main app, while production usually has
more modules installed by hand. Export ir.module.module from production and pass the file, so
the graph covers the same code production runs:
codebase-memory-deployv --modules-file modules_installed.csvThe file is an ir.module.module export, either a csv or one module name per line
(# comments and blank lines are ignored):
name,state
sale,installed
purchase,uninstalled- With a
statecolumn (state/status), only theinstalledrows are used. - Without one, the file is assumed to be already filtered to the installed modules.
- Column headers may be the technical names (
name,state) or the exported labels (Technical Name,Status); a headerless file is read asname[,state]. - Modules listed but missing on disk are reported as
not_on_diskand skipped — they simply are not in this container's repos.
tox -e py-multi # tests in parallel
tox -e lint # pre-commit checks
tox -e build # release rehearsal (sdist+wheel, twine check, install smoke test)