Who it is for
Documentation teams on GitBook who want drafting and restructuring done conversationally but reviewed before publication.
GitBook MCP
Read and write access to a GitBook documentation organization
Overview
What GitBook MCP does
The GitBook MCP server gives an agent read and write access to a documentation organization. Docs sites, spaces, and sections can be created and configured, while content can be drafted, edited, or reorganized.
Review is part of the workflow. Change requests can be opened and updates pushed into them for approval. OpenAPI specifications can be published as API reference documentation, and site customization is managed from the same connection.
Sign-in uses OAuth or a personal access token. Six skills accompany the server, covering site configuration, change request creation and review, documentation writing, OpenAPI writing, and integration building. A separate GitBook Skills plugin teaches agents how to apply these capabilities.
What stands out
Edits can be routed into change requests, so writing lands in a review queue rather than straight onto a published site.
Availability
Where GitBook MCP is listed
GitBook ships this on both marketplaces: GitBook MCP is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- Gitbook Inc.
- Filed under
- Developer Tools
- Listed since
- July 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- gitbook.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Named skills
GitBook MCP declares 6 named skills, which puts it in the 6.7% of ChatGPT-listed apps that do.
- build-integration
- configure-site
- cr-create
- cr-review
- write-docs
- write-openapi
Example prompts from the listing
- Turn my markdown folder into a GitBook docs site
- Update the docs for this page and open a change request for review
- Publish my OpenAPI spec as interactive API reference docs
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
GitBook MCP publishes 9 tools to Claude. That is a mid-sized surface: 41.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one sits 3 tools below its bucket's median, 266th of 462.
It falls in the 7-10 tools band, which holds 14.6% of the Claude directory.
GitBook MCP publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- GitBook
- Verification
- Community-listed (61.5% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Productivity
- Endpoint
-
https://mcp.gitbook.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 9 · 7-10 tools band
- Depth rank in Productivity
- 266 of 462
- Snapshot
- August 2026
GitBook MCP is community-listed in the Claude directory, the tier 770 of 1,253 connectors sit in (61.5%). It is the default for a self-published server, and says nothing either way about quality.
In the publisher's words
How GitBook describes it
The GitBook MCP server gives AI agents a full read/write connection to your GitBook organization. Create and configure docs sites, spaces, and sections; draft, edit, and restructure content; open change requests and push updates for review; publish OpenAPI specs; and manage site customization — all through natural conversation, with OAuth sign-in or a personal access token. Pairs with the GitBook Skills plugin, which teaches agents how to use these capabilities effectively.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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ChatGPT
This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from GitBook MCP's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with GitBook, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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