The Git MCP server, built by Anthropic, provides tools to read, search, and manipulate Git repositories. It is officially maintained and best for Coding & Dev.
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About
Tools to read, search, and manipulate Git repositories. Full Git operations support.
Trust verdict
How grades are computed →Grade A (100/100, reliable) from 1 measured signal, based on repository evidence. Only one signal stands behind it, so treat the grade as provisional.
What was measured
- Repository maintenance100/100 · weight 20
The repository has been pushed to or released within the last six months. — last push 2026-07-10, last release 2026-07-10 (2026.7.10).
- Source verification100/100 · weight 25
The repository URL was confirmed to resolve against the live GitHub API and is not archived.
- Provenance100/100 · weight 10
Official Model Context Protocol reference implementation, published by modelcontextprotocol at servers/src/git.
- Listing ↔ repository match100/100 · weight 5
The link points at src/git inside the modelcontextprotocol/servers monorepo — a confirmed official reference implementation. Monorepo subpaths are read as the server name, never compared against the repository name.
What could not be measured
These contributed nothing to the score — not a penalty, not a zero. They are why the confidence reads the way it does.
- Live MCP handshakeunknown
No remote endpoint to handshake — this server installs and runs locally over stdio, so there is nothing to probe from the outside.
- Measured uptimeunknown
No probe history recorded for this server yet.
- Tool-schema stabilityunknown
Drift is a difference between two successive checks, and this server has none recorded.
Installation
uvx mcp-server-git --repository /path/to/repomcp-server-git confirmed live on PyPI — checked August 17, 2026.
Categories
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Git?
Who built Git?
Is Git free?
How do I install Git?
What does Git integrate with?
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Repo Health
Local/stdio install — runs on your machine, so there is no remote endpoint to verify live. Trust signal below is from the source repo.
- Last commit
- 2mo ago
- Last release
- 2026.7.10 · 2mo ago
- Install
- npm
- Package
- @modelcontextprotocol/server-git
Quick Info
- Install Type
- pip
- Author
- Anthropic
- Categories
- 2
- Integrations
- 5
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