GistPad MCP Server for Zed

GitHub Gists in Zed: browse, create, edit, and comment on gists, with daily notes and prompts.

GistPad for Zed: browse, create, edit, and comment on GitHub Gists from the Agent Panel, with optional daily notes, starred/archived gists, and reusable prompts.

Powered by gistpad-mcp.

Requirements

• Zed 1.22.0 or newer.
• No system dependencies: the extension uses only what Zed provides — the Node.js runtime provided by Zed (Zed validates Node.js ≥ 22 and otherwise downloads and manages its own runtime, currently Node 24) and Zed's built-in npm package installer. To guarantee that a system Node.js is never used, set "node": { "ignore_system_version": true } in your Zed settings.
• A GitHub Personal Access Token with the gist scope (required; see Configuration).

Installation

Install from the Zed extension registry (once published), or as a dev extension:

1. In Zed, open the command palette and run "zed: install dev extension".
2. Select this directory.

Zed fetches the pinned gistpad-mcp npm package on first use.

Configuration

Open the Agent Panel, then Settings → AI → MCP Servers → GistPad MCP Server → Configure.

github_token is required: the extension has no fallback and never uses the gh CLI or any other ambient credentials. Create a token at https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=gist.

Example settings.json:

{
    "context_servers": {
        "mcp-server-gistpad": {
            "settings": {
                "github_token": "<your-github-token>"
            }
        }
    }
}

Usage

Ask the agent things like:

• "List my 10 most recent gists."
• "Create a gist titled ideas with a file ideas.md."
• "Add a comment to the ideas gist."
• "What are my incomplete todos today?" (requires enable_daily_notes)
• "List my saved prompts." (requires enable_prompts)

How it works

The extension installs the pinned gistpad-mcp npm package into its work directory (via Zed's built-in npm installer) and spawns it over stdio with the Node.js runtime provided by Zed (validated ≥ 22; Zed-managed Node.js as fallback), with GITHUB_TOKEN set from the required github_token setting. Zed's Agent Panel talks MCP Tools and Prompts to it.

Development

cargo build --target wasm32-wasip2 --release

Reproducibility

• zed_extension_api is pinned to the exact version =0.7.0 in Cargo.toml, and Cargo.lock is committed — builds resolve identical dependency versions.
• The extension targets the wasm32-wasip2 ABI; the required Zed version follows from that API version (validated against Zed 1.22.0).

Topics

License

MIT. Gi

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