Connect Claude and Cursor to Self-Hosted Gitea with gitea-mcp
Connecting Claude and Cursor to a self-hosted Gitea via gitea-mcp
I wanted to operate my self-hosted Gitea from Claude (Claude Code / Claude Desktop) and Cursor, which I use every day, over MCP.
MCP setup on GitHub is very easy, but Gitea needed a few extra steps.
I installed the official gitea-mcp on macOS, issued an access token on the Gitea side, and tried using the same binary from both clients over stdio. I did not try connecting from other editors such as VS Code. For that, refer to the official repository.
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