Gopls MCP

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

People who work with codex, gemini and static analysis and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Go.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-07-21 · ★ 58 · #211 OF 229 MAINTAINED CODING AGENT · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

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 #211 of 229 actively-maintained coding agent servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence
1 release 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 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-07-21 and it shipped 1 release in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

06 · Alternatives to Gopls MCP

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