github-mcp

MCP server for the GitHub REST API — 1,112 tools covering all 44 API categories.

Auto-generated from GitHub's OpenAPI spec using a code generator that produces typed tool definitions with Zod validation.

Installation

npm install github-rest-mcp

Or from GitHub Packages:

npm install @eyalm321/github-mcp

Configuration

Set your GitHub Personal Access Token:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_token_here

Category Filter

By default all 1,112 tools are registered. To enable only specific categories:

export GITHUB_MCP_CATEGORIES=repos,issues,pulls,actions

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github-rest-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "ghp_your_token_here",
        "GITHUB_MCP_CATEGORIES": "repos,issues,pulls,actions,users,orgs,git,search"
      }
    }
  }
}

API Categories

| Category | Tools | Category | Tools | |----------|-------|----------|-------| | actions | 184 | activity | 32 | | agent-tasks | 5 | apps | 37 | | billing | 10 | campaigns | 5 | | checks | 12 | classroom | 6 | | code-scanning | 21 | code-security | 20 | | codes-of-conduct | 2 | codespaces | 48 | | copilot | 25 | credentials | 1 | | dependabot | 22 | dependency-graph | 3 | | emojis | 1 | enterprise-team-memberships | 6 | | enterprise-team-organizations | 6 | enterprise-teams | 5 | | gists | 20 | git | 13 | | gitignore | 2 | hosted-compute | 6 | | interactions | 9 | issues | 55 | | licenses | 3 | markdown | 2 | | meta | 5 | migrations | 22 | | oidc | 8 | orgs | 108 | | packages | 27 | private-registries | 6 | | projects | 26 | pulls | 27 | | rate-limit | 1 | reactions | 15 | | repos | 201 | search | 7 | | secret-scanning | 9 | security-advisories | 10 | | teams | 32 | users | 47 |

Tool Naming

Tools follow the pattern github_{category}_{action}, derived from GitHub's operation IDs:

• github_repos_get — Get a repository
• github_issues_create — Create an issue
• github_pulls_list — List pull requests
• github_actions_list_workflow_runs — List workflow runs

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Regenerate tools from OpenAPI spec
npm run generate

# Build
npm run build

# Run tests
npm test

# Start the server
npm start

Regenerating Tools

The tool files in src/tools/ are auto-generated from GitHub's OpenAPI spec. To update:

# Delete cached spec to force re-download
rm -f api-description.json

# Regenerate
npm run generate

License

MIT