https://github.com/gethopp/gister
The best snippet manager based on GitHub Gists
https://github.com/gethopp/gister
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The best snippet manager based on GitHub Gists
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/gethopp/gister
- Owner: gethopp
- Created: 2026-07-08T18:50:57.000Z (12 days ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-07-09T20:12:42.000Z (11 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-07-09T22:05:06.311Z (11 days ago)
- Language: TypeScript
- Size: 3.54 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Agents: AGENTS.md
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README
Gister
**Gister** is a local-fist, and super-fast code snippet manager powered by GitHub Gist. Aspiring to be the Linear for Gist management.
## Features
- Local first, making loading gists super fast
- Cross-platform (macOS, Linux, Windows)
- MCP server support for working with agents
- Light-weight (~11Mb) built on Tauri
- Support for GitHub enterprise
- Search snippets
- Free and OSS
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## Install
There are multiple ways to install Gister.
For all operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux) you can visit the releases page and [download the latest version](https://github.com/gethopp/gister/releases).
For macOS you can also use brew:
```
brew tap gethopp/tap
brew trust gethopp/tap
brew install --cask gethopp/tap/gister
```
## Tech stack
Gister is a [Tauri](https://tauri.app) desktop app, with [React](https://react.dev) and TypeScript frontend bundled with [Vite](https://vite.dev), plus a small [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org) core that holds the MCP server.
Some extra noteworthy libraries:
- [Astryx](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@astryxdesign/core) for the component library and theming
- [Dexie](https://dexie.org) (IndexedDB) as the local-first source of truth
- [Zustand](https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand) for runtime state that mirrors the local DB
- [CodeMirror](https://codemirror.net) for editing and syntax highlighting and and `react-markdown` with `remark-gfm` for rendering markdown files
- [Fuse.js](https://www.fusejs.io) for fuzzy search
- [rmcp](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk), the official Rust MCP SDK, runs a full MCP server inside the app
- [axum](https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum) and [tokio](https://tokio.rs) serve it over streamable HTTP at `127.0.0.1:1996/mcp`, so your agents can list, search, read, create, and edit gists while Gister is open
## MCP tools
While Gister is running, agents can call these tools over the MCP server:
| Tool | Description |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `list_gists` | Lists your gists, most recently updated first. Metadata only, no file contents. |
| `search_gists` | Fuzzy-searches your gists by description and filename, and returns the matches. |
| `read_gist` | Reads a single gist by id, including the full text of every file. |
| `create_gist` | Creates a gist with one or more files. Description is optional; public or secret is fixed at creation. |
| `update_gist` | Updates a gist's description, or edits, renames, adds, and deletes its files. |
| `delete_gist` | Deletes a gist by id, permanently. |
| `get_gist_url` | Returns the public web URL of a gist by id. |
| `get_current_user` | Returns the signed-in GitHub user's profile (login, name, email). |
| `sync_gists` | Runs a background sync with GitHub to refresh the local cache. |
## Roadmap
Feel free to tackle any points from the ones below if you are up for it!
- [ ] Add more keyboard shortcts for oprations like deleting a Gist etc.
- [ ] Support for Jupiter notebooks
- [ ] Support for GitLab
- [ ] Tag support for organizing gists
Or if you find any bug or have any feature requests, please feel free to open an issue or a pull request.
## Sponsor Gister
At Hopp, we are building high quality OSS tools to help developers build better software. Some of our projects include:
1. [Hopp](https://github.com/gethopp/hopp) - The best OSS pair-programming app for developers (macOS and Windows)
2. [Figma-mcp-brigde](https://github.com/gethopp/figma-mcp-bridge) - Figma Plugin + MCP server that streams live Figma document data to AI tools without hitting Figma API rate limits
3. [Gister](https://github.com/gethopp/gister) - OSS code snippet manager for developers
If you want to sponsor Gister and our work please check our GitHub Sponsors page: https://github.com/sponsors/gethopp ❤️
## Why I built Gister
I used to be a heavy [Lepton](http://github.com/hackjutsu/Lepton) user. At some point I figured the project was dead, so I started building my own replacement (turns out the maintainer came back and shipped v2 in the meantime, congrats on that!).
What I really wanted was a code snippet manager that feels like Linear: local-first, keyboard-first, and fast enough that it never gets in the way. That's Gister.