# GistPad (GitHub Gists)

> Use this tool when you need to manage personal knowledge, daily notes, and reusable prompts through GitHub Gists, enabling efficient storage and retrieval of information via the GitHub Gists API. It solves problems of disorganized knowledge and note-taking by providing a lightweight, version-controlled system for creating, updating, and organizing gists. Ideal for developers and knowledge workers, it offers a range of features including intelligent categorization, automatic content loading, and real-time notifications.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/lostintangent-gistpad  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/lostintangent-gistpad

## Description

This MCP server provides personal knowledge management through GitHub Gists, enabling AI assistants to manage daily notes, reusable prompts, and general knowledge storage via the GitHub Gists API. Built by lostintangent using TypeScript and the MCP SDK, it offers tools for creating, updating, and organizing gists with special handling for daily notes (automatically dated files for todos and scratch notes), prompt collections (with frontmatter support for arguments and descriptions), and general gist management including archiving, starring, commenting, and file operations. The implementation features intelligent gist categorization, automatic content loading, real-time notifications for changes, and command-line options for filtering content types, making it valuable for developers and knowledge workers who want to use GitHub Gists as a lightweight, version-controlled personal knowledge base accessible through AI assistants.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.88
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** version-control
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/lostintangent-gistpad)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lostintangent/gistpad-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "lostintangent-gistpad"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/lostintangent-gistpad` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/lostintangent-gistpad/pull`

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