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Connect AI assistants to GitHub — manage repos, issues, PRs, and workflows through natural language.
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An MCP server that connects AI assistants to GitHub, exposing tools for repositories, issues, pull requests, Actions, security alerts, discussions, gists, notifications, and Copilot features. It runs locally via Docker (stdio) or as a remote server (streamable HTTP), with configurable toolsets and GitHub Enterprise support.
It lets you manage and query GitHub through natural language without leaving your AI tool, covering nearly the whole platform surface.
Use it to
- Search and read repository code and commits
- Create, list, and merge pull requests
- Triage issues, labels, and notifications
- Review Actions runs and fetch job logs
- List Dependabot, code scanning, and secret scanning alerts
For Developers using MCP hosts like VS Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor
- Runs
- both
- Transport
- streamable-http, stdio
- Tools
- 93
- Packaged as
- oci:ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:1.12.2
- Install
- docker run ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:1.12.2
- Needs
- 1 environment variable, including secrets
- Version
- 1.12.2
- Last release
- 2026-09-16
topicsgithubmcpai-assistantsdevtoolsautomationapi