# gitscribe-mcp

> GitScribe: Web Scraping RAG MCP Server for Git-based Documentation

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/gitscribe-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/akhilthomas236/gitscribe
- repository: https://github.com/akhilthomas236/gitscribe/issues
- version: 1.1.5
- protocols: mcp
- tags: documentation, git, mcp, rag, retrieval, scraping, search
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:gitscribe-mcp

### Description (declared)

# 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

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
# 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

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

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

#### 2. Scrape Documentation
```bash
# 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
```bash
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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- code.documentation (1, declared)
- data.web-scraping (1, declared)
- data.vector-search (1, declared)
- dev.version-control (1, declared)
- dev.package-management (0.825, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/gitscribe-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T16:24:02.610Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/gitscribe-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/gitscribe-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:gitscribe-mcp