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Gitingest-MCP

Gitingest-MCP

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github.com/opengigVersion Control0Updated 73w ago
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About Gitingest-MCP

Gitingest-MCP lets MCP clients extract useful information from GitHub repositories. It provides repository summaries, directory structures, and file contents for clients such as Claude Desktop, Cline, and Cursor.

Key features

  1. 01Summarize GitHub repositories
  2. 02Show project directory structure
  3. 03Extract repository file contents

Use cases

  1. 01Review a repository before making changes
  2. 02Inspect a project’s directory layout
  3. 03Read repository files through an MCP client

MCP support

Exposes gitingest-based repository summary, structure, and file-content extraction to MCP clients.

#gitingest#mcp-server#github-integration

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitingest": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@smithery/cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Run commandnpx -y @smithery/cli

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
npm@smithery/cli

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

Gitingest-MCP smithery badge

An MCP server for gitingest. This allows MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Cline, Cursor, etc to quickly extract information about Github repositories including

  • Repository summaries
  • Project directory structure
  • File content
Gitingest-MCP MCP server

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1fa596b-a70b-4d37-91d9-ea5e80284793

Table of Contents

Installation

Installing via Smithery

  • To install gitingest-mcp via Smithery:

    npx -y @smithery/cli@latest install @puravparab/gitingest-mcp --client claude --config "{}" # Claude

    npx -y @smithery/cli@latest run @puravparab/gitingest-mcp --client cursor --config "{}" # Cursor

    npx -y @smithery/cli@latest install @puravparab/gitingest-mcp --client windsurf --config "{}" # Windsurf

    npx -y @smithery/cli@latest install @puravparab/gitingest-mcp --client cline --config "{}" # Cline
Install via Github

  1. Add this to the MCP client config file

    {
	"mcpServers": {
		"gitingest-mcp": {
			"command": "<path to uv>/uvx",
			"args": [
				"--from",
				"git+https://github.com/puravparab/gitingest-mcp",
				"gitingest-mcp"
			]
		}
	}
}
Installing Repo Manually

  1. Clone the repo

    git clone https://https://github.com/puravparab/Gitingest-MCP
cd Gitingest-MCP

  2. Install dependencies

    uv sync

  3. Add this to the MCP client config file

    {
	"mcpServers": {
		"gitingest": {
			"command": "<path to uv>/uv",
			"args": [
				"run",
				"--with",
				"mcp[cli]",
				"--with-editable",
				"<path to gitingest-mcp project>/gitingest_mcp",
				"mcp",
				"run",
				"<path to gitingest-mcp project>/gitingest-mcp/src/gitingest_mcp/server.py"
			]
		}
	}
}

  4. If you have issues, follow this MCP server documentation

Updating the MCP client configuration

  1. Add to Claude Desktop

    Open config file in your IDE

    cursor ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

    code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Debug

  1. Using mcp inspector 
    uv run mcp dev src/gitingest_mcp/server.py

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