GitMCP Server: Setup for Claude, Cursor and Other Apps

• Finds the GitHub owner and repo for a library name

  Turns a library name such as "react" into the GitHub owner and repo that the other tools need. If it finds nothing, the assistant tries the name directly.

  Try: “Which GitHub repo is the three.js library?”

  Network · match_common_libs_owner_repo_mapping

• Gets the main docs for any GitHub repo

  Retrieves the primary documentation of a repo you name by owner and project. The README says it prefers an llms.txt file and falls back to the README.

  Try: “Fetch the docs for the langchain-ai/langgraph repo and tell me what it is for.”

  Network · fetch_generic_documentation

• Searches a repo's docs for the part you need

  Runs a meaning-based search through a repo's documentation, so the assistant gets only the relevant parts instead of the whole file.

  Try: “Search the Playwright MCP docs for how to run in headless mode.”

  Network · search_generic_documentation

• Searches the code of a GitHub repo

  Searches a repo's code using GitHub code search and returns matching files, 30 results per page.

  Try: “Find where retries are implemented in the openai/whisper repo.”

  Network · search_generic_code

• Opens a link mentioned in the docs and returns its text

  Fetches the content of any absolute URL, such as a page the docs point to, while respecting that site's robots.txt rules.

  Try: “Open the link from that README about the API reference and summarize it.”

  Network · fetch_generic_url_content

Watch out for

• Your queries go to a third-party server

  Requests run on gitmcp.io. The README says it does not store queries or personal data, and that you can self-host it. github.com

• It can open any link in the docs

  The URL tool fetches any absolute address the assistant gives it, respecting robots.txt. Keep it to public pages. github.com

• Public repos only

  It reads content that is already public and only when you ask. It does not scrape on its own. github.com

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