Gitingest-MCP

Gitingest-MCP
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An MCP server for gitingest. It allows MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline etc to quickly extract information about Github repositories including repository summaries, project directory structure, file contents, etc

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git_summary

Get a summary of a GitHub repository that includes - Repo name, - Files in repo - Number of tokens in repo - Summary from the README.md Args: owner: The GitHub organization or username repo: The repository name branch: Optional branch name (default: None)

git_tree

Get the tree structure of a GitHub repository Args: owner: The GitHub organization or username repo: The repository name branch: Optional branch name (default: None)

git_files

Get the content of specific files from a GitHub repository Args: owner: The GitHub organization or username repo: The repository name file_paths: List of paths to files within the repository branch: Optional branch name (default: None)

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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

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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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