gitmanual MCP Server

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gitmanual is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 7 Nov 2026.

Setup manuals for any GitHub repo: will it run on macOS, Windows or Linux, and the exact steps.

Uptime history 38 hours of history · worst hour 0%

38 hours agonow

25.3%

Uptime 24h

23 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

351 ms

Response time

average over 24h

102

Stars

last commit 7 Nov 2026

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Nov 3 tools appeared find_alternatives, get_list, search_repos

gitmanual does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 51.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add gitmanual --transport http https://gitmanual.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://gitmanual.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.gitmanual]
url = "https://gitmanual.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitmanual": {
      "url": "https://gitmanual.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "gitmanual": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gitmanual.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

setup

get_setup_manual

How to install or run a GitHub repository: whether it works on macOS, Windows or Linux (with reasons), ready-made downloads, install commands from the README, the parts it needs, and step-by-step commands to set it up from source. Facts come from the repo's own files, not guesses.

get_setup_script

One script that sets the repo up on the given system: bash for macOS and Linux, PowerShell for Windows. It stops at the first error, skips what's already installed and never starts servers. Show it to the user to read before running it.

alternatives

find_alternatives

When a repo doesn't run (or only partly runs) on the user's system: whether it does, and up to five similar repos that do, judged by shared GitHub topics.

get

get_list

gitmanual's lists group repos by what they do and where they run, e.g. self-hosted apps for Linux, AI tools for Windows, MCP servers for macOS. Leave out slug to see every list.

repos

search_repos

Find open-source GitHub repos on gitmanual's shelf: by words in the name or description, by the system they run on, language or difficulty, or only those rising on GitHub this week. Each result links to its setup manual.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://gitmanual.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	92 ms	11 min ago

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gitmanual — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can gitmanual do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_alternatives, get_list, get_setup_manual, get_setup_script, search_repos. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is gitmanual working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 23 of 91 checks got a reply (25.3%), average response time 351 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists gitmanual as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect gitmanual?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does gitmanual need an API key?

No. gitmanual completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is gitmanual?

It answers our handshake in 351 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is gitmanual open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 102 stars on GitHub and 5 open issues. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at gitmanual.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.