gitopia-mcp-server CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for Gitopia’s MCP server. Gitopia combines code hosting with blockchain bounties and DAO governance, while MCP is the protocol used to expose the server’s tools, prompts, and resources to an AI client.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on Gitopia handlers, Git and blockchain clients, wallet signing, configuration, workspace paths, builds, tests, and security-sensitive changes.
Why use it?
They give developers a shared description of the server’s architecture, build commands, configuration, and security boundaries. This reduces guesswork when modifying or checking the project.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/gitopia/gitopia-mcp-server/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gitopia/gitopia-mcp-server
Per session 921 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 921 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00921 $0.00921
Opus 5 $0.00461 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00184 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00092 $0.00092

Measured yesterday against content hash f8d6137ea1a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitopia-mcp-server CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gitopia MCP Server

Decentralized Git + blockchain bounties + DAO governance via the Model Context Protocol.

57 tools, 3 prompts, 4 resource templates.

Architecture

3-layer design: MCP client -> handler (internal/handler/) -> registration (cmd/server/main.go).

Key packages:

  • cmd/server/ — entry point, server initialization
  • internal/handler/register.go — tool/prompt/resource registration
  • internal/handler/ — tool handler implementations (params structs + handler methods on ToolHandler). Includes tag_handlers.go, commit_handlers.go, release_handlers.go, label_handlers.go for tags/commits/releases/labels
  • internal/gitopia/ — gRPC client for Gitopia chain queries and tx signing
  • internal/signing/ — wallet management, transaction signing, fee grants
  • internal/config/ — configuration loading (file + env var overlay)
  • internal/git/ — local git operations
  • internal/workspace/ — sandboxed workspace path resolution

Build & Test

go build ./cmd/server        # compile server binary
go test ./...                 # run all tests
go vet ./...                  # static analysis
go test -cover ./internal/handler/...  # handler coverage

Environment Variables

Variable Purpose Default
GITOPIA_MNEMONIC BIP-39 mnemonic for signing auto-generated if not set
GITOPIA_GRPC_ENDPOINTS Comma-separated gRPC endpoints gitopia-grpc.polkachu.com:11390
DRY_RUN true/1 to preview without broadcasting false
TRUST_LEVEL readonly, localwrite, chainwrite chainwrite
TOOLSETS Comma-separated toolsets (core, workflow, or all) all
TRANSPORT stdio or http stdio
PORT HTTP listen port (when TRANSPORT=http) 8080
GITOPIA_WALLET_BACKEND mnemonic, keyring, file, or auto auto
APPROVAL_MODE true/1 to require confirmation before chain-write broadcast false
APPROVAL_TTL Duration before pending transactions expire 5m
MCP_CONFIG_FILE Path to JSON config file ~/.mcp/gitopia/config.json
MCP_LOG_LEVEL Log level (debug, info, warn, error) info
MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH Workspace root for cloned repos ~/.mcp/gitopia/workspace
GIT_USER_NAME Default git user name Gitopia MCP Server
GIT_USER_EMAIL Default git user email [email protected]

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 73 lines · 921 tokens per session scan A f8d6137ea1a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitopia-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gitopia/gitopia-mcp-server (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 921 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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