GitHub

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GitHub's own MCP server for issues, PRs, and code search.

The implementation GitHub themselves ship. Covers issues, pull requests, code search, actions, releases, and project metadata through fine-grained or classic tokens.

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What it does

Full CRUD on issues and pull requests, including review comments and labels
Code, commit, and repository search across the authenticated user's accessible orgs
Branch creation, commits, and single-file writes without checking out a clone
Release, tag, and workflow-run inspection for GitHub Actions
Respects fine-grained PAT scopes rather than silently falling back to classic tokens
Works against github.com and self-hosted GitHub Enterprise Server

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Pull request reviewsIssue triageRelease automationCode search across orgsActions workflow inspection

About GitHub

GitHub is an official MCP server categorised under version control, official, github, git. The implementation GitHub themselves ship. Covers issues, pull requests, code search, actions, releases, and project metadata through fine-grained or classic tokens.

How to install

Pick your MCP client from the Install panel on this page to get a one-click install link (Cursor, VS Code) or a ready-to-paste configuration for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, Windsurf, and other MCP-compatible clients. No local setup required for remote servers.

License

GitHub is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, so you can freely use, modify, and distribute it — subject to its terms.

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README

Maintained in github/github-mcp-server by GitHub. The original @modelcontextprotocol reference was archived in late 2025 and this repository is now the canonical way to give an MCP client access to GitHub repositories, issues, and workflows. Written in Go and distributed as a small container image so there is no Node runtime dependency on the host. What it does: - Full CRUD on issues and pull requests, including review comments and labels - Code, commit, and repository search across the authenticated user's accessible orgs - Branch creation, commits, and single-file writes without checking out a clone - Release, tag, and workflow-run inspection for GitHub Actions - Respects fine-grained PAT scopes rather than silently falling back to classic tokens - Works against github.com and self-hosted GitHub Enterprise Server Example: "Find every open PR in acme/frontend that fails the typecheck job, group by author, and leave a comment asking the author to rebase" resolves into a code-search call, a workflow-run inspection, and a loop of issue-comment creates — all without the agent ever shelling out to the gh CLI. Setup: Export GITHUB_TOKEN (fine-grained or classic) before launch. For GHES set GITHUB_HOST to the instance URL. The container reads these from the environment so a plain "docker run -i --rm -e GITHUB_TOKEN ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server" is enough. Transport: stdio inside the container. Mount nothing — the server is stateless and does not need host filesystem access. Notes: Because GitHub ships it, the tool surface tracks the REST API rather than drifting. If a token lacks a scope the server fails the specific tool call rather than returning a generic 403, which makes permission debugging easier than with the archived reference server.