GitScribe 📜

Scribing knowledge from the Git universe

GitScribe is a powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables intelligent web scraping of Git-based documentation with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities. This tool helps code assistants and developers efficiently extract, process, and retrieve information from documentation websites, GitHub repositories, and other Git-based resources to accelerate application development.

✨ Features

• 🌐 Universal Git Support: Works with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps

• 🧠 Intelligent RAG System: ChromaDB + Sentence Transformers for semantic search

• 📄 Multi-Format Parsing: Markdown, HTML, reStructuredText, and source code files

• ⚡ High Performance: Async scraping with intelligent rate limiting

• 🔧 MCP Integration: Full Model Context Protocol compliance for AI assistants

• 📊 Rich CLI: Command-line interface for testing and management

• 🎯 Smart Filtering: Automatic content filtering and relevance scoring

Related MCP server: ctxpeek

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Install from PyPI (recommended)
pip install gitscribe-mcp

# Or install with uv (recommended for development)
uv sync

# Or install with pip for development
pip install -e .

# Or install dependencies manually
pip install -r requirements-gitscribe.txt

Verify Installation

# Check if installation was successful
gitscribe-mcp --help

# Test the server (should start without errors)
gitscribe-mcp server --help

Basic Usage

1. Start the MCP Server

# Start the server for use with AI assistants
gitscribe-mcp server

# Or run directly with uv
uv run gitscribe-mcp server

2. Scrape Documentation

# Scrape Python documentation
gitscribe-mcp scrape https://docs.python.org --depth 2 --output python_docs.json

# Scrape a GitHub repository
gitscribe-mcp scrape https://github.com/microsoft/vscode --formats md html rst

3. Index Documents

# Index scraped documents into the RAG system
gitscribe-mcp index python_docs.json

4. Search Documentation

# Search indexed documentation
gitscribe-mcp search "async await python examples"
gitscribe-mcp search "VSCode extension API" --limit 5

5. Analyze Repositories

# Get repository information and structure
gitscribe-mcp repo-info https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

🤖 Using as MCP Server

GitScribe is designed to work as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with AI assistants like Claude Desktop. Once installed and configured, you can interact with it naturally through your AI assistant.

Example Interactions

Scraping Documentation:

"Can you scrape the FastAPI documentation and index it for me?"

Searching for Information:

"Search the indexed documentation for examples of async database operations"

Getting Code Examples:

"Show me code examples for implementing JWT authentication in Python"

Repository Analysis:

"Analyze the structure of the React repository and tell me about its testing setup"

Available MCP Tools

When configured as an MCP server, GitScribe provides these tools to AI assistants:

📋 MCP Tools

GitScribe provides the following MCP tools:

scrape_documentation

Scrape and index documentation from a Git repository or website.

Parameters:

• url (string, required): Repository or documentation URL

• depth (integer, optional): Maximum crawling depth (default: 3)

• formats (array, optional): Supported document formats

search_documentation

Search indexed documentation using semantic search.

Parameters:

• query (string, required): Natural language search query

• limit (integer, optional): Maximum number of results (default: 10)

• filter (object, optional): Filter criteria (language, framework, etc.)

get_code_examples

Extract code examples related to a specific topic.

Parameters:

• topic (string, required): Programming topic or concept

• language (string, optional): Programming language filter

• framework (string, optional): Framework or library filter

🛠️ Configuration

GitScribe can be configured through environment variables:

# Server settings
export GITSCRIBE_DEBUG=true
export GITSCRIBE_MAX_DEPTH=3
export GITSCRIBE_MAX_PAGES=100

# RAG system settings
export GITSCRIBE_EMBEDDING_MODEL="sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
export GITSCRIBE_CHUNK_SIZE=1000
export GITSCRIBE_CHROMA_DIR="./chroma_db"

# Rate limiting
export GITSCRIBE_REQUEST_DELAY=1.0
export GITSCRIBE_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS=5

# Git platform authentication (optional)
export GITHUB_TOKEN="your_github_token"
export GITLAB_TOKEN="your_gitlab_token"

📖 Claude Desktop Integration

To use GitScribe as an MCP server with Claude Desktop, you need to configure it in your Claude Desktop settings.

Prerequisites

First, install the package from PyPI:

pip install gitscribe-mcp

Configuration

Add the following configuration to your Claude Desktop config file:

MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Using the PyPI Package (Recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitscribe": {
      "command": "gitscribe-mcp",
      "args": ["server"],
      "env": {
        "GITSCRIBE_DEBUG": "false",
        "GITSCRIBE_MAX_DEPTH": "3",
        "GITSCRIBE_CHROMA_DIR": "./chroma_db"
      }
    }
  }
}

Using uvx (Alternative)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitscribe": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["gitscribe-mcp", "server"],
      "env": {
        "GITSCRIBE_DEBUG": "false"
      }
    }
  }
}

Development Configuration (Local Development)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitscribe": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/your/gitscribe",
        "run",
        "gitscribe-mcp",
        "server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITSCRIBE_DEBUG": "true"
      }
    }
  }
}

Verification

After adding the configuration:

1. Restart Claude Desktop

2. Start a new conversation

3. You should see GitScribe available as an MCP server

4. Try using commands like: "Can you scrape the Python documentation and help me find examples of async/await?"

🧪 Development

Building and Publishing

1. Sync dependencies:

uv sync

2. Build package:

uv build

3. Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Debugging

Use the MCP Inspector for debugging:

# Debug the PyPI package
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector gitscribe-mcp server

# Debug local development version
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/gitscribe run gitscribe-mcp server

Testing

# Run all tests
uv run pytest

# Run with coverage
uv run pytest --cov=gitscribe

# Run specific tests
uv run pytest tests/test_scraper.py

📚 Supported Formats

• Documentation: Markdown (.md), HTML (.html), reStructuredText (.rst)

• Code Files: Python (.py), JavaScript (.js), TypeScript (.ts), Java (.java), C++ (.cpp), Go (.go), Rust (.rs)

• Configuration: JSON, YAML, TOML

• Web Content: Dynamic HTML pages, static sites

🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐
│   MCP Client    │───▶│   MCP Server    │───▶│  Web Scraper    │
│ (Code Assistant)│    │   (GitScribe)   │    │ (Beautiful Soup)│
└─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘
                                │
                                ▼
                       ┌─────────────────┐
                       │   RAG System    │
                       │  - ChromaDB     │
                       │  - Embeddings   │
                       │  - Search       │
                       └─────────────────┘

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Beautiful Soup for HTML parsing

• ChromaDB for vector database capabilities

• Sentence Transformers for embeddings

• Model Context Protocol for AI assistant integration

GitScribe - Making documentation accessible to AI assistants, one commit at a time! 🚀