Coding Guides MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to coding guides and best practices for AI assistants like Claude and GitHub Copilot.

What is this?

This MCP server exposes coding guidelines and style guides as resources that can be accessed by MCP clients. It's designed to extend or replace AGENTS.md files by providing a structured way to serve coding practices and guidelines to AI assistants during development.

Features

• Resource-based API: Exposes coding guides through MCP resources
• GitHub integration: Loads guides from GitHub repositories over the web
• Automatic caching: Caches downloaded guides locally for offline access
• Fallback support: Uses local cache or directory when network is unavailable
• Simple file-based storage: Guides can be stored as Markdown files locally
• FastMCP framework: Built on the efficient FastMCP library for quick development
• Easy integration: Works with any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cline, etc.)

Available Resources

• guides://list - Lists all available coding guides
• guides://{guide_name} - Retrieves the content of a specific guide (e.g., guides://python.md)

Installation

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/delian/codeguide-mcp.git
cd codeguide-mcp

# Install with uv (recommended)
uv install

# Or with pip
pip install -e .

With Docker

docker build -t codeguide-mcp .
docker run -i codeguide-mcp

Configuration

Configure the server by creating a config.toml file or setting environment variables:

GitHub Configuration (Recommended)

To load guides from a GitHub repository:

github_repo = "owner/repository"  # e.g., "delian/codeguide-mcp"
github_path = "guides"            # Path to guides directory in repo
github_branch = "main"            # Branch to fetch from
  cache_dir = ".guides-cache"       # Local cache directory
log_level = "INFO"

Local Directory Configuration

To use local guides only:

guides_dir = "guides"
log_level = "INFO"

Environment Variables

• GUIDES_GITHUB_REPO - GitHub repository (format: owner/repo)
• GUIDES_GITHUB_PATH - Path to guides directory in repository (default: guides)
• GUIDES_GITHUB_BRANCH - Branch to fetch from (default: main)
• GUIDES_CACHE_DIR - Local cache directory (default: .guides-cache)
• GUIDES_DIR - Local directory containing guide files (default: guides)
• GUIDES_LOG_LEVEL - Logging level (default: INFO)

Behavior

1. Network available + GitHub configured: Fetches guides from GitHub and caches them locally
2. Network unavailable: Uses local cache if available
3. No cache available: Falls back to local guides_dir if configured

Adding Guides

Using GitHub (Recommended)

If you've configured github_repo, simply add Markdown files to the specified directory in your GitHub repository. The server will automatically fetch and cache them.

Using Local Directory

Add Markdown files to the guides/ directory. Each file will be automatically available as a resource.

Example:

echo "# Python Style Guide\n\nUse PEP 8..." > guides/python.md

Usage with MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

Add to your mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "coding-guides": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "main"]
    }
  }
}

or

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "coding-guides": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "docker.io/delian/codeguide-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Other MCP Clients

Run the server and connect via stdio:

python main.py

Development

# Install development dependencies
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run pre-commit hooks
pre-commit install
pre-commit run --all-files

# Run the server
python main.py

License

MIT

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please open an issue or pull request.