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GistPad-MCP

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📇 🏠 - Use GitHub Gists to manage and access your personal knowledge, daily notes, and reusable prompts. This acts as a companion to https://gistpad.dev and the .

TypeScriptDev Tools

Install

npx -y gistpad-mcp

Required environment variables

GITHUB_TOKENSet in your MCP config

claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gistpad-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "gistpad-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Add this to your Claude Desktop config file. Find it at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS.

What this does

GistPad-MCP exposes a set of tools to Claude over the Model Context Protocol. After you add it to claude_desktop_config.json (snippet above) and restart Claude Desktop, those tools become callable inside any conversation. That makes it useful when you want Claude to reach into your developer tooling without copy-pasting context every turn.

Requirements

This server needs the following environment variables to be set before it can run:

GITHUB_TOKEN

Set these via the env object in your MCP config (see claude_desktop_config.json snippet above).

Common use cases

  • Drive your build, test, lint, or deploy commands from a chat session
  • Pull CI status, commit metadata, or PR review state into context
  • Inspect or scaffold project boilerplate without leaving Claude