# refs-mcp

> FastMCP server for managing the refs/ reference-repo tree

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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/refs-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.2.2
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:refs-mcp

### Description (declared)

# refs

You have a `~/dev/refs/` folder too, don't you?

The one where every time you want to read someone's codebase — study
`drizzle-orm`'s query builder, skim `next.js` internals, grep through
`playwright` — you run

```bash
git clone https://github.com/foo/bar.git ~/dev/refs/bar
```

and then months later you've got a hundred loose checkouts at the top
level, half of them stale, two of them accidentally the same repo under
different names, and no idea which ones are your work vs. someone else's
code. You keep meaning to organize it. You never do. Nobody wants to
write a housekeeping tool for their own scratch directory.

This is that tool.

## What it does

Run `./reorg.sh --apply` and your pile becomes this:

```
refs/
├── facebook/
│   └── react/
├── vuejs/
│   └── vue/
├── microsoft/
│   ├── playwright/
│   └── ...
└── ... (one directory per GitHub owner)
```

No matter where a clone was before — flat at top, nested in a
mis-named folder, duplicated under two names — it ends up at
`<owner>/<repo>/` based on its actual `git remote`. Duplicate clones of
the same upstream get parked aside for review instead of clobbering.
Random non-repo content (your notes, binaries, scratch dirs) gets evicted
out of the tree entirely. Empty pseudo-owner folders get pruned.

Every move is journaled. `./reorg.sh undo --apply` reverses the most
recent run. Nothing magical — plain `mv`, `rmdir`, `git`.

## The daily loop

```bash
./reorg.sh --apply     # you cloned some more stuff; put it where it belongs
./status.sh            # quick look at what's dirty and what has updates
./update.sh            # git pull every clean repo with remote changes
```

## About the git repo you're looking at

This directory is itself a git repo, but it doesn't track the hundreds of
cloned reference repos — those are checkouts you can always re-clone. It
only tracks the tooling (`reorg.sh`, `status.sh`, `update.sh`) plus the
two generated indexes (`index.md`, `index.html`). A whitelist-mode
[`.giti…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/refs-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T11:26:34.581Z)

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