GitHub MCP Server

GitHub's official MCP server: lets agents read repos and code, manage issues and PRs, analyze code and monitor Actions workflows.

Category

MCP Servers

Website

https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server

Repository

https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server

Status

active

Pricing

open-source

License

MIT

Maintainer

GitHub

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• github
• git
• issues
• pull-requests

Agent access

MCP endpoint

https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/

Auth

oauth

Notes

Remote server hosted by GitHub (OAuth or PAT); can also run locally.

Related

• GitHub MCP Registry: GitHub's registry centralizing MCP servers for discovery and integration with GitHub Copilot and other tools.

Guides & comparisons

• Add MCP servers to Claude Code (Guide): Connect Claude Code to remote and local MCP servers from the command line, choose the right scope, keep tokens out of shared config, and check that each server connected, using GitHub and Playwright as examples.
• Connect an agent to a remote MCP server (Guide): How remote MCP works over Streamable HTTP in the 2026-07-28 spec, how OAuth sign-in is discovered, and copy-paste configs for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, VS Code and Claude connectors.
• Coding agent starter stack (Stack): A terminal coding agent plus current library docs, GitHub access, a real browser and a sandbox, connected over MCP, with the configuration choices that keep it safe.

Sources

• https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)