# git-mcp-server MCP Server

Comprehensive Git MCP server enabling native git tools including clone, commit, worktree, & more.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/git-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**26 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Error responses include structuredContent that fails output schema validation

## Summary

When a git operation fails, the error response includes `structuredContent` with a different structure than the declared `outputSchema`. This causes MCP clients to reject the response with a schema validation error, masking the actual git error message.

## Impact

When git operations fail (auth issues, network errors, conflicts, etc.), users see:
```
Error in git_push_git
Tool execution failed: MCP error -32602: Structured content does not match the tool's output schema: 
data must 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/40) · 2026-02-23 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Server Shutdown Due to Uncaught Exception While Creating Logs Directory

I'm using the Jetbrains Copilot plugin and I'm getting the following error when the server is started.

```
{"level":60,"time":1770759758405,"env":"development","version":"2.6.5","pid":34406,"applicationName":"@cyanheads/git-mcp-server","applicationVersion":"2.6.5","nodeEnvironment":"development","requestId":"4BSPF-LUKJJ","timestamp":"2026-02-10T21:42:38.350Z","operation":"ServerStartup","err":{"type":"Object","message":"ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir 'logs'","stack":"Error: ENOENT: no

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/38) · 2026-02-10 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Cannot find Git on Windows

Git is installed and it's in the system path. And yet MCP can't find it:

```json
{
	"level": 50,
	"time": 1765540389216,
	"env": "development",
	"version": "2.6.0",
	"pid": 52588,
	"requestId": "FUFHK-39BCW",
	"timestamp": "2025-12-12T11:53:09.196Z",
	"operation": "HandleToolRequest",
	"input": {
		"path": "D:\\Projects\\MyProj",
		"maxCount": 10,
		"oneline": false,
		"stat": false,
		"patch": false,
		"showSignature": false
	},
	"critical": false,
	"errorCode": -32603,
	"originalErrorType": "

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/37) · 2025-12-12 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Doesn't work on Windows with an absolute path

It doesn't work on Windows with an absolute path no matter how it's specified. If I specify GIT_BASE_DIR as "D:\\Projects", I get the following 
```
Server stderr: file:///C:/Users/username/AppData/Local/Temp/bunx-2483025435-@cyanheads/git-mcp-server@latest/node_modules/@cyanheads/git-mcp-server/dist/index.js:4658
    throw new McpError(-32008 /* ConfigurationError */, "Invalid application configuration.", {
          ^

McpError: Invalid application configuration.
    at parseConfig (file:///C:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/36) · 2025-12-11 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### MCP crashing on start

Running `npx @cyanheads/git-mcp-server@latest` package crashes immediately. "MCP Server running in STDIO mode." The process then terminates.

**Last Known Working Version:**
`2.3.5`

**Environment:**
- **Operating System:** Windows 11
- **Node.js Version:** v22.20.0

**Steps to Reproduce:**
1. Open a terminal on Windows 11.
2. Run the command: `npx @cyanheads/git-mcp-server` (or `npx @cyanheads/git-mcp-server@latest`)

**Expected Behavior:**
The MCP server should start and remain running, awaiti

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/27) · 2025-10-16 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Most recent

### Propagate current working directory from parent process when initializing the server

The usage pattern "git_set_working_dir" -> "git_*" creates a problem when using `git-mcp-server` with oneshot-loading MCP servers:
- server initializes on-demand
- cwd is set with `git_set_working_dir`
- server unloads
- server initializes on-demand with a regular git command and fails to figure out cwd

See https://github.com/mcp-shark/lazy-tool/issues/5?reload=1
Related to https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/32

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/55) · 2026-08-06 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Advisory badge for git-mcp-server?

You've been shipping the git MCP hard (saw the early-July push). There's a public card at https://mcpindex.ai/server/io-github-cyanheads-git-mcp-server — if you want a README badge that tracks the advisory screen (not a safety cert), this is paste-ready:

[![mcpindex](https://mcpindex.ai/api/v1/badge/io-github-cyanheads-git-mcp-server)](https://mcpindex.ai/server/io-github-cyanheads-git-mcp-server)

If the title/blurb is off, reply with the fix and I'll update it.

Thank you,
GB

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/54) · 2026-07-12 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Argument/option injection in git ref parameters leads to arbitrary file write (git_log / git_diff / git_show)

reported on 5 June 2026 https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/security/advisories/GHSA-265x-r5m8-w5v2 - no response, so trying here: 

### Summary
The ref/object parameters of several read tools (git_log branch, git_diff source/target, git_show object) are typed as a plain string with no leading-dash or format validation, and are placed into the git command line as positional arguments. git therefore interprets a value beginning with "-" as an option. Using git's --output= option, an attac

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/53) · 2026-07-08 · open · external user · 1 comment

### npm package declares missing dist/index.d.ts types entry

### Summary

The published `@cyanheads/git-mcp-server@2.15.1` npm package declares TypeScript types at `dist/index.d.ts`, but the tarball does not include that file.

### Evidence

The package metadata declares both the root `types` field and the export-condition `types` field:

```json
{
  "name": "@cyanheads/git-mcp-server",
  "version": "2.15.1",
  "main": "dist/index.js",
  "files": ["dist"],
  "exports": {
    ".": {
      "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
      "import": "./dist/index.js"
    

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/50) · 2026-06-11 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### SSH Agent not picked up.

VS Code is passing along `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` in a dev container.

git is setup for ssh signing of commits and tags. Working in windows, wsl, and dev container envs. Key is unlocked and agent uses it just fine.

`git_commit` tool call (from Continue VS Code extension, in this case) results in passphrase error.

Files staged, but not committed.

---

### Tool Call Error
```
git_mcp_git_commit failed with the message: [{"type":"text","text":"Error: Git commit failed: Exit Code: 128\nStderr: error: Ente

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/49) · 2026-05-16 · open · external user · 0 comments

### GPT reports problem with the tool schema

Hi! Getting this error when using your server with `gpt-5-codex`, any chance you've seen anything like this?

```json
{
  "error": {
    "message": "Invalid schema for function 'git_git_remote': In context=('properties', 'url', 'type', '0'), 'uri' is not a valid format.",
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "param": "tools[23].parameters",
    "code": "invalid_function_parameters"
  }
}
```

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/47) · 2026-05-06 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### feat: Add programmatic interactive rebase operations (squash, fixup, drop, autosquash)

## Summary

Add high-level MCP tools for common interactive rebase operations that don't require TTY/editor interaction. This enables LLM agents to programmatically clean up commit history.

## Motivation

Interactive rebase (`git rebase -i`) is essential for maintaining clean git history, but it requires an interactive editor session. LLM agents need programmatic access to these operations for workflows like:
- Squashing WIP commits before PR
- Applying fixup commits
- Removing accidental/debug

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/git-mcp-server/issues/39) · 2026-02-21 · open · external user · 0 comments

[See all 19 reports Pod holds for git-mcp-server](/mcp/git-mcp-server/issues) — of 26 qualified upstream.

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