Allows management of GitHub Gists, providing tools for creating, reading, updating, and deleting gists and their files, as well as managing comments, starring, and archiving capabilities.
Serves as a companion to enable access and editing of gists through GitHub Copilot using the MCP protocol.
Supports filtering gists to show only those composed of Markdown files, and provides tools for managing reusable prompts stored as markdown files with templating capabilities.
📓 GistPad MCP
An MCP server for managing and sharing your personal knowledge, daily notes, and reuseable prompts via GitHub Gists. It's a companion to the GistPad VS Code extension and GistPad.dev (for web/mobile), which allows you to access and edit your gists from any MCP-enabled AI product (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop).
🏃 Getting started
ℹ️ The GistPad MCP server is built using Node.js and so before you perform the following steps, you need to ensure that you've got Node.js already installed.
- Generate a personal access token that includes only the
gist
scope: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new - If you're using VS Code, then simply click the above badges to install the right config. Otherwise, add the equivalent of the following to your client's MCP config file (or via an "Add MCP server" GUI/TUI):
- Restart your MCP client (optionally, depending on the tool)
- :partying_face: Start having fun with gists + MCP! For example, try things like...
- Exploring content
How many gists have I edited this month?
What's the summary of my <foo> gist?
- Creating content
Create a new gist about <foo>
Update my <foo> gist to call out <bar>
- Daily todos
What are my unfinished todos for today?
Add a new todo for <foo>
- Collaboration
Add a comment to the <foo> gist saying <bar>
Give me a share URL for the <foo> gist
View my starred gists
- Gist organization
Archive my gist about <foo>
Add a new <foo> file to the <bar> gist and migrate the <baz> content into it
- Reusable prompts
Create a new prompt that searches the web ofor a specified manga series and then provides a summary about it
Delete my prompt about <foo>
- Exploring content
🛠️ Included tools
Gist management
list_gists
- List all of your gists (excluding daily notes and archived gists).get_gist
- Get the contents of a gist by ID.create_gist
- Create a new gist with a specified description and initial file contents.delete_gist
- Delete a gist by ID.update_gist_description
- Update a gist's description by ID.duplicate_gist
- Create a copy of an existing gist with all its files.
File management
update_gist_file
- Update the contents of a specific file in a gist.add_gist_file
- Add a new file to an existing gist.delete_gist_file
- Delete a file from a gist.rename_gist_file
- Rename an existing file within a gist.
Daily notes
get_todays_note
- Get or create today's daily note.update_todays_note
- Update the content of today's daily note.list_daily_notes
- List all of your daily notes.get_daily_note
- Get the contents of a specific daily note by date.delete_daily_note
- Delete a specific daily note by date.
Starring
list_starred_gists
- List all your starred gists.star_gist
- Star a specific gist by ID.unstar_gist
- Unstar a starered gist by ID.
Archiving
list_archived_gists
- List all of your archived gists.archive_gist
- Archive one of your gists.unarchive_gist
- Unarchive an archived gist.
Comments
list_gist_comments
- List all comments for a specified gist.add_gist_comment
- Add a new comment to a gist.edit_gist_comment
- Update the content of an existing comment.delete_gist_comment
- Delete a comment from a gist.
Prompts
add_prompt
- Add a new prompt to your prompts collection.delete_prompt
- Delete a prompt from your collection.
📁 Included resources
In addition to the above tools, the GistPad MCP server also exposes your gists as resources (using the gist:///
URI scheme), which allows clients to read them without requiring tool execution.
When you add/delete/duplicate a gist, or change a gist's description, then a notification will be provided to MCP clients, indicating that the list of resources have changed. And if your MCP client supports resource subscriptions, then you can subscribe to a specific gist and get notified when it's updated.
Additionally, for MCP clients that support resource templates, GistPad also exposes a resource at gist:///{gistId}/comments
, which allows querying the comments for a gist (without needing to execute the list_gist_comments
tool).
Resource configuration
If you'd like to expose either your archived gists, starred gists, and/or daily notes as resources, then simply update your MCP server config to pass the --archived
, --starred
, and/or --daily
flags to the gistpad-mcp
CLI.
💬 Reusable prompts
GistPad allows you to create and manage parameterized/reusable prompts that are stored as markdown files in a gist. You can manage prompts using the add_prompt
and delete_prompt
tool, by simply asking your MCP client to create/delete a prompt, with the specified contents/arguments you want.
Behind the scenes, prompts are stored as markdown files in a gist called 💬 Prompts
(which is automatically created by the add_prompt
tool). The prompt files include their prompt as the body, and optionally, a description and arguments using front-matter. And if the prompt makes use of arguments, the body of the prompt should include {{argument}}
placeholders, which will be replaced when the MCP client retrieves it.
💻 CLI Reference
The gistpad-mcp
CLI accepts the following optional flags:
--archived
- Include archived gists in the list of MCP resources (Note: Thelist_archived_gists
tool is always available)--starred
- Include starred gists in the list of MCP resources (Note: Thelist_starred_gists
tool is always available)--daily
- Include daily notes in the list of MCP resources (Note: Thelist_daily_notes
tool is always available)--markdown
- Filter the list of gists that are returned, to only those that are composed of Markdown files.
This server cannot be installed
remote-capable server
The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.
A server for managing and sharing personal knowledge, daily notes, and reusable prompts via GitHub Gists, enabling users to access and edit their gists from any MCP-enabled AI product.
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