Opengist MCP server

This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to your own Opengist instance. Opengist is a self-hosted pastebin, a place where you save snippets of text or code and share them with a link. If you already run Opengist and use an AI assistant, this lets the assistant work with your gists for you.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about your gists, like "show me my recent ones" or "save this as a new gist". The AI uses this helper, which talks to your Opengist instance over its built-in API. Opengist sends back the gists, files, or confirmation. Your AI then shows you the answer in the chat, in plain words. For anything that deletes or publishes, the helper asks you to confirm first.

What you can do with it

• List your gists, another user's gists, or all public ones
• Search gists by title, description, topics or owner
• Read a gist's files and its commit history
• Create a new gist from a list of files
• Update a gist's title, description, visibility or files
• Fork a gist or like one
• Delete a gist or specific files (with your confirmation)

Try asking your AI

• “List my ten most recent gists”
• “Search my gists for anything about database backups”
• “Create a private gist called meeting-notes.md with the text I just wrote”
• “Show me the commit history for gist abc123”
• “Delete the file old-draft.md from my gist abc123”

What it gives back to you

You get back lists of gists with their titles and visibility, file contents, commit histories, or a short confirmation that something was created, updated or deleted. Results are kept to a sensible size, and if something is too big the answer tells you how to fetch the rest. In the chat it looks like a normal reply from your AI, sometimes with a small structured block behind it that the app can use.

Before you start

Who it's for

People who already run their own Opengist instance and want their AI assistant to help manage their gists.

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