Rustpad MCP server

This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to a Rustpad instance, which is a self-hosted collaborative text editor. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI to open a pad, read it, add text to it, or change parts of it. It is handy if you and your colleagues already use Rustpad and want your AI to work in the same shared documents.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about a Rustpad pad, like reading it or adding a line. The AI passes your request to this helper program. The helper talks to your Rustpad server, either reading the pad or writing to it. Because it uses proper editing, anything you or your colleagues type at the same time is kept, not overwritten. Then you get the result back in the chat, such as the pad's text or a short note that your change was made.

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What you can do with it

• Read the full text of a pad
• Check how long a pad is and who is editing it right now
• Create a new pad with a chosen or random name
• Append text to the end of a pad
• Search and replace text inside a pad
• Replace the whole content of a pad (asks you first)
• Set the syntax highlighting language for a pad

Try asking your AI

• “Read the pad called meeting-notes and summarise it for me”
• “Add this paragraph to the end of the pad called ideas”
• “In the pad called todo, replace the word draft with final”
• “Create a new pad called standup and put today's date at the top”

What it gives back to you

You get back plain answers in the chat, like the text of a pad, its length, who is editing it, or a short note saying what was changed. For example, it might say it appended 12 characters and the pad now has 137. The two big changes, replacing a whole pad and replacing text in several places, ask you to confirm first. Everything is shown as text you can read, not as code.

Before you start

Who it's for

Teams and individuals who already run their own Rustpad editor and want their AI assistant to help with those shared pads.