Overview
GitHub MCP Server bridges AI tooling with the full breadth of GitHub’s REST and GraphQL APIs. Written in Go, it exposes fine-grained repository, issue-tracking and CI/CD operations through the Model Context Protocol so that LLM-powered agents (e.g., Copilot agent mode, Claude Desktop) can understand, query and act on live GitHub data in natural language.
Key Capabilities
- Repository insight & code search – list trees, retrieve file contents, perform semantic queries across any repo the token can see.
- Issue & PR automation – create, comment, label, review and merge pull requests; manage projects and discussions.
- CI/CD intelligence – inspect Actions workflow runs, artifacts and logs; surface build failures to the agent.
- Security & governance hooks – surface Dependabot alerts, secret-scanning results and code-scanning findings.
- Flexible deployment – local single-binary server or remote hosted endpoint with OAuth / PAT authentication and fine-grained scopes.
