github--github-mcp-server/README.md

# GitHub MCP Server

GitHub MCP Server implemented in Go.

## Setup

Create a GitHub Personal Access Token with the appropriate permissions
and set it as the GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable.

## Tools

### Users

- **get_me** - Get details of the authenticated user
  - No parameters required

### Issues

- **get_issue** - Gets the contents of an issue within a repository

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `issue_number`: Issue number (number, required)

- **create_issue** - Create a new issue in a GitHub repository

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `title`: Issue title (string, required)
  - `body`: Issue body content (string, optional)
  - `assignees`: Comma-separated list of usernames to assign to this issue (string, optional)
  - `labels`: Comma-separated list of labels to apply to this issue (string, optional)

- **add_issue_comment** - Add a comment to an issue

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `issue_number`: Issue number (number, required)
  - `body`: Comment text (string, required)

- **list_issues** - List and filter repository issues

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `state`: Filter by state ('open', 'closed', 'all') (string, optional)
  - `labels`: Comma-separated list of labels to filter by (string, optional)
  - `sort`: Sort by ('created', 'updated', 'comments') (string, optional)
  - `direction`: Sort direction ('asc', 'desc') (string, optional)
  - `since`: Filter by date (ISO 8601 timestamp) (string, optional)
  - `page`: Page number (number, optional)
  - `per_page`: Results per page (number, optional)

- **search_issues** - Search for issues and pull requests
  - `query`: Search query (string, required)
  - `sort`: Sort field (string, optional)
  - `order`: Sort order (string, optional)
  - `page`: Page number (number, optional)
  - `per_page`: Results per page (number, optional)

### Pull Requests

- **get_pull_request** - Get details of a specific pull request

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `pull_number`: Pull request number (number, required)

- **list_pull_requests** - List and filter repository pull requests

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `state`: PR state (string, optional)
  - `sort`: Sort field (string, optional)
  - `direction`: Sort direction (string, optional)
  - `per_page`: Results per page (number, optional)
  - `page`: Page number (number, optional)

- **merge_pull_request** - Merge a pull request

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `pull_number`: Pull request number (number, required)
  - `commit_title`: Title for the merge commit (string, optional)
  - `commit_message`: Message for the merge commit (string, optional)
  - `merge_method`: Merge method (string, optional)

- **get_pull_request_files** - Get the list of files changed in a pull request

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `pull_number`: Pull request number (number, required)

- **get_pull_request_status** - Get the combined status of all status checks for a pull request

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `pull_number`: Pull request number (number, required)

- **update_pull_request_branch** - Update a pull request branch with the latest changes from the base branch

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `pull_number`: Pull request number (number, required)
  - `expected_head_sha`: The expected SHA of the pull request's HEAD ref (string, optional)

- **get_pull_request_comments** - Get the review comments on a pull request

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `pull_number`: Pull request number (number, required)

- **get_pull_request_reviews** - Get the reviews on a pull request
  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `pull_number`: Pull request number (number, required)

### Repositories

- **create_or_update_file** - Create or update a single file in a repository

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `path`: File path (string, required)
  - `message`: Commit message (string, required)
  - `content`: File content (string, required)
  - `branch`: Branch name (string, optional)
  - `sha`: File SHA if updating (string, optional)

- **search_repositories** - Search for GitHub repositories

  - `query`: Search query (string, required)
  - `sort`: Sort field (string, optional)
  - `order`: Sort order (string, optional)
  - `page`: Page number (number, optional)
  - `per_page`: Results per page (number, optional)

- **create_repository** - Create a new GitHub repository

  - `name`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `description`: Repository description (string, optional)
  - `private`: Whether the repository is private (boolean, optional)
  - `auto_init`: Auto-initialize with README (boolean, optional)
  - `gitignore_template`: Gitignore template name (string, optional)

- **get_file_contents** - Get contents of a file or directory

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `path`: File path (string, required)
  - `ref`: Git reference (string, optional)

- **fork_repository** - Fork a repository

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `organization`: Target organization name (string, optional)

- **create_branch** - Create a new branch

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `branch`: New branch name (string, required)
  - `sha`: SHA to create branch from (string, required)

- **list_commits** - Gets commits of a branch in a repository
  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `sha`: Branch name, tag, or commit SHA (string, optional)
  - `path`: Only commits containing this file path (string, optional)
  - `page`: Page number (number, optional)
  - `per_page`: Results per page (number, optional)

### Search

- **search_code** - Search for code across GitHub repositories

  - `query`: Search query (string, required)
  - `sort`: Sort field (string, optional)
  - `order`: Sort order (string, optional)
  - `page`: Page number (number, optional)
  - `per_page`: Results per page (number, optional)

- **search_users** - Search for GitHub users
  - `query`: Search query (string, required)
  - `sort`: Sort field (string, optional)
  - `order`: Sort order (string, optional)
  - `page`: Page number (number, optional)
  - `per_page`: Results per page (number, optional)

### Code Scanning

- **get_code_scanning_alert** - Get a code scanning alert

  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `alert_number`: Alert number (number, required)

- **list_code_scanning_alerts** - List code scanning alerts for a repository
  - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
  - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
  - `ref`: Git reference (string, optional)
  - `state`: Alert state (string, optional)
  - `severity`: Alert severity (string, optional)

## Resources

### Repository Content

- **Get Repository Content**  
  Retrieves the content of a repository at a specific path.

  - **Template**: `repo://{owner}/{repo}/contents{/path*}`
  - **Parameters**:
    - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
    - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
    - `path`: File or directory path (string, optional)

- **Get Repository Content for a Specific Branch**  
  Retrieves the content of a repository at a specific path for a given branch.

  - **Template**: `repo://{owner}/{repo}/refs/heads/{branch}/contents{/path*}`
  - **Parameters**:
    - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
    - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
    - `branch`: Branch name (string, required)
    - `path`: File or directory path (string, optional)

- **Get Repository Content for a Specific Commit**  
  Retrieves the content of a repository at a specific path for a given commit.

  - **Template**: `repo://{owner}/{repo}/sha/{sha}/contents{/path*}`
  - **Parameters**:
    - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
    - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
    - `sha`: Commit SHA (string, required)
    - `path`: File or directory path (string, optional)

- **Get Repository Content for a Specific Tag**  
  Retrieves the content of a repository at a specific path for a given tag.

  - **Template**: `repo://{owner}/{repo}/refs/tags/{tag}/contents{/path*}`
  - **Parameters**:
    - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
    - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
    - `tag`: Tag name (string, required)
    - `path`: File or directory path (string, optional)

- **Get Repository Content for a Specific Pull Request**  
  Retrieves the content of a repository at a specific path for a given pull request.

  - **Template**: `repo://{owner}/{repo}/refs/pull/{pr_number}/head/contents{/path*}`
  - **Parameters**:
    - `owner`: Repository owner (string, required)
    - `repo`: Repository name (string, required)
    - `pr_number`: Pull request number (string, required)
    - `path`: File or directory path (string, optional)

## Standard input/output server

```sh
go run cmd/github-mcp-server/main.go stdio
```

E.g:

Set the PAT token in the environment variable and run:

```sh
script/get-me
```

And you should see the output of the GitHub MCP server responding with the user information.

```sh
GitHub MCP Server running on stdio
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 3,
  "result": {
    "content": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "{\"login\":\"juruen\",\"id\" ... }
      }
    ]
  }
}

```

## i18n / Overriding descriptions

The descriptions of the tools can be overridden by creating a github-mcp-server.json file in the same directory as the binary.
The file should contain a JSON object with the tool names as keys and the new descriptions as values.
For example:

```json
{
  "TOOL_ADD_ISSUE_COMMENT_DESCRIPTION": "an alternative description",
  "TOOL_CREATE_BRANCH_DESCRIPTION": "Create a new branch in a GitHub repository"
}
```

You can create an export of the current translations by running the binary with the `--export-translations` flag.
This flag will preserve any translations/overrides you have made, while adding any new translations that have been added to the binary since the last time you exported.

```sh
./github-mcp-server --export-translations
cat github-mcp-server.json
```

You can also use ENV vars to override the descriptions. The environment variable names are the same as the keys in the JSON file,
prefixed with `GITHUB_MCP_` and all uppercase.

For example, to override the `TOOL_ADD_ISSUE_COMMENT_DESCRIPTION` tool, you can set the following environment variable:

```sh
export GITHUB_MCP_TOOL_ADD_ISSUE_COMMENT_DESCRIPTION="an alternative description"
```

## Testing on VS Code Insiders

First of all, install `github-mcp-server` with:

```bash
go install ./cmd/github-mcp-server
```

Make sure you:

1. Set your `GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN` environment variable and ensure VS Code has access to it.
2. VS Code Insiders has access to the `github-mcp-server` binary

Go to settings, find the MCP related settings, and set them to:

```json
{
  "mcp": {
    "inputs": [],
    "servers": {
      "mcp-github-server": {
        "command": "path-to-your/github-mcp-server",
        "args": ["stdio"],
        "env": {}
      }
    }
  }
}
```

In `Copilot Edits`, you should now see an option to reload the available `tools`.
Reload, and you should be good to go.

Try something like the following prompt to verify that it works:

```
I'd like to know more about my GitHub profile.
```

## TODO

Lots of things!

Missing tools:

- push_files (files array)
- list_issues (labels array)
- update_issue (labels and assignees arrays)
- create_pull_request_review (comments array)

Testing

- Integration tests
- Blackbox testing: ideally comparing output to Anthropic's server to make sure that this is a fully compatible drop-in replacement.

And some other stuff:

- ...