Gopls MCP

Give your AI Agent the compiler's brain, not a text searcher. Documentation: https://gopls-mcp.org

People who need coding agent tools inside Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Go.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-07-21 · ★ 57 · #179 OF 194 MAINTAINED CODING AGENT · VERIFIED 2026-08-25

BSD-3-Clause · Go servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

license BSD-3-Clause - declared in the repository

registry namespace io.github.xieyuschen is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

02 · What Gopls MCP can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v1.0.7 · 2026-06-29

bump version to release (#45) · deliver gopls-mcp as a Claude Code / Codex plugin (#44)

v1.0.6 · 2026-05-27

consolidate test/ into single integration suite, 54% line reduction (#41) · drop 8 tools that overlap with native grep/Read capabilities · remove arm check and condense scripts

v1.0.5 · 2026-05-25

fix some comments to improve readability · fix some minor issues in the comments · fix typos in comments and docs · replace xcontext.Detach and notDone with context.WithoutCancel · upgrade go directive to at least…

03 · Who maintains Gopls MCP

gopls-mcp is maintained by xieyuschen. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Jan 2026.

04 · Facts

repository
github.com/xieyuschen/gopls-mcp
category
coding agent - ranked #179 of 194 actively-maintained coding agent servers as of 2026-08-25.
release cadence
2 releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-06-29)
registry
io.github.xieyuschen/gopls-mcp (active, first published 2026-03-01 · 3 versions)

05 · Gopls MCP FAQ

What is Gopls MCP?

Give your AI Agent the compiler's brain, not a text searcher. Documentation: https://gopls-mcp.org

Is Gopls MCP still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-07-21 and it shipped 2 releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

06 · Alternatives to Gopls MCP

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