The Gitingest-MCP server allows MCP clients to extract information from GitHub repositories. You can:
- Get repository summaries (including repo name, files, token count, and README summary)
- Access project directory structure (tree structure of the repository)
- Retrieve content of specific files within repositories
Allows MCP clients to extract information about Github repositories including repository summaries, project directory structure, and file content
Gitingest-MCP 
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:
Install via Github
- Add this to the MCP client config file
Installing Repo Manually
- Clone the repo
- Install dependencies
- Add this to the MCP client config file
- If you have issues, follow this MCP server documentation
Updating the MCP client configuration
- Add to Claude Desktop Open config file in your IDE
Debug
- Using mcp inspector
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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