WEBVTT 00:02.000 --> 00:07.600 In this lecture, we will configure a GitLab MCP server, which will later allow us to do actions that 00:07.600 --> 00:09.720 the cursor agent can normally do. 00:10.040 --> 00:12.960 But before we can get there, there is a bit of configuration to be done. 00:12.960 --> 00:14.240 So hang on tight. 00:14.760 --> 00:20.400 I'm here at the website called Cursor Directory and I already selected here from the menu MCP. 00:20.800 --> 00:23.040 And I'm seeing here in the list GitHub. 00:23.040 --> 00:24.640 And I'm going to click on it in a second. 00:24.640 --> 00:29.680 But just in case you cannot find GitHub, simply search here for GitHub and you should go to this page. 00:30.320 --> 00:33.800 And then we're going to click here on the installation instructions. 00:33.800 --> 00:36.360 Whatever is here below is not interesting for us. 00:36.760 --> 00:39.120 This is going to take us to a GitHub page. 00:39.440 --> 00:42.320 And currently this repository is deprecated. 00:42.320 --> 00:45.080 So we're going to go to this link. 00:45.280 --> 00:48.680 And then finally we're going to find here the GitHub MCP server. 00:49.040 --> 00:51.960 And this explains some of the use cases. 00:51.960 --> 00:54.120 So when it makes sense to use this MCP. 00:54.480 --> 00:57.080 But first of all there are a few steps that we need to do. 00:57.480 --> 01:01.340 So first of all we're going to start with everything that is here inside the list. 01:01.860 --> 01:04.660 And the first item that we have on the list is having. 01:04.700 --> 01:05.900 Docker installed. 01:06.180 --> 01:11.260 If you don't have Docker installed, go to docker.com and download Docker Desktop. 01:11.620 --> 01:15.780 It's free for a personal plan and it's relatively easy to do. 01:15.820 --> 01:21.660 After the installation, I highly recommend doing a restart of your computer, but when Docker Desktop 01:21.660 --> 01:23.860 is running, it should look similar to this. 01:24.180 --> 01:27.620 And right here at the bottom it should say engine running. 01:27.620 --> 01:31.540 So this is how you know that Docker is now installed on your computer. 01:31.580 --> 01:36.700 This is a very nice tool for development purposes because it allows you to run everything in an isolated 01:36.700 --> 01:37.420 environment. 01:38.820 --> 01:45.300 So once we are done with that and have ensured that Docker is running, we still need to do point number 01:45.300 --> 01:48.740 three, which is to create a GitHub personal access token. 01:48.740 --> 01:53.100 So we can click on this particular link here and open up a new page. 01:53.380 --> 01:58.740 It's gonna ask us to create a personal access token, which is like a temporary password that we're 01:58.870 --> 02:05.510 going to need inside cursor to be able to do some actions and go ahead and call this GitHub MCP so that 02:05.510 --> 02:06.990 we know why we have created this. 02:07.190 --> 02:12.390 I'm going to select a relatively short expiration date, but feel free to leave the default of 30 days. 02:13.230 --> 02:16.790 And apart from this we're going to select here the repository access. 02:16.790 --> 02:18.750 And this is going to be very very narrow. 02:18.950 --> 02:21.790 We're going to select only a specific repository. 02:21.790 --> 02:24.310 And this is the repository with a flashcard. 02:24.990 --> 02:30.030 Now apart from this in terms of repository permissions there are a few things that we want to enable. 02:30.030 --> 02:31.790 So we're going to expand this part. 02:32.270 --> 02:35.390 And there are a few things that we want to have access to. 02:35.430 --> 02:37.430 One of them is contents. 02:38.310 --> 02:39.990 I'm going to set it to read and write. 02:40.470 --> 02:43.310 But just as well we can set it to issues. 02:43.750 --> 02:48.870 And later on, in case you need anything else that doesn't work, feel free to go back to this configuration 02:49.230 --> 02:52.070 and set up the right tokens that you need. 02:52.790 --> 02:58.570 I'm going to go ahead and generate this token, and this is going to be displayed here in case you need 02:58.570 --> 02:59.930 to create another token. 03:00.130 --> 03:04.890 This particular token is never going to be shown again, so you need to delete this token and go through 03:04.890 --> 03:06.530 the process once again. 03:06.730 --> 03:09.210 But in terms of that now we also have this token. 03:09.210 --> 03:10.490 Keep this page open. 03:10.490 --> 03:14.650 And we're going to go to the next part which is the installation itself. 03:14.930 --> 03:16.850 And this is relatively simple. 03:17.130 --> 03:19.290 We're not going to use the example here with VSCode. 03:19.290 --> 03:21.530 Instead we're going to scroll a bit further down. 03:21.810 --> 03:25.850 And we're going to take a look at this particular setup here with MCP servers. 03:25.850 --> 03:33.050 We're going to copy this contents and then go inside cursor and make sure we click on cursor and not 03:33.050 --> 03:33.810 inside the rules. 03:33.810 --> 03:38.490 Create a new file which is called m dot JSON. 03:38.930 --> 03:41.210 And we're going to paste here this contents. 03:41.970 --> 03:43.370 And then we're going to save it. 03:43.810 --> 03:46.530 Afterwards we want to make sure that this setup is correct. 03:46.530 --> 03:53.290 So we're going to click here on the gear icon go to MCP and we're going to see here GitHub. 03:53.850 --> 03:55.810 And this appears to be enabled. 03:55.810 --> 04:00.300 So I'm going to refresh here and we're going to see here this particular setup. 04:00.300 --> 04:02.060 Now there's one more thing we need to do. 04:02.500 --> 04:06.780 And this is to specify our GitHub personal access token. 04:07.020 --> 04:08.900 Otherwise this will not work properly. 04:09.100 --> 04:13.820 And this is also the reason why we have created this fine grained personal access token. 04:13.820 --> 04:16.500 So I'm going to click on copy here. 04:16.780 --> 04:19.580 Go inside our configuration paste it here. 04:20.300 --> 04:25.660 So now we have it apart from this want to make sure that this particular file is added to the. 04:25.700 --> 04:26.380 Gitignore. 04:26.660 --> 04:30.260 So I'm gonna copy it here inside the chat and say add to. 04:30.300 --> 04:30.980 Gitignore. 04:32.940 --> 04:39.180 Once we're done with that it's pretty much everything that we need to do at this stage in terms of adding 04:39.180 --> 04:40.900 this MCP server. 04:41.140 --> 04:42.740 You're taking a look at Docker Desktop. 04:42.740 --> 04:44.900 We're going to see here that there is a container running. 04:44.900 --> 04:48.780 So this is pretty much the MCP server running on your own machine. 04:48.780 --> 04:53.740 And this is needed to make this bridge between AI agent and GitHub.