GitHub Support Assistant

An MCP server that helps support engineers find similar GitHub issues to speed up troubleshooting.

Setup

1. Install dependencies:

2. Set your GitHub token as an environment variable:

3. Build the server:

Integrating with Claude:

Update the claude desktop configuration, e.g. code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Update it to include the full path that this repository was cloned to:

Features

• Searches for similar issues in a GitHub repository based on issue description

• Calculates similarity scores to rank results

• Returns formatted issue details with links

Usage

The server provides one tool:

find-similar-issues

Finds GitHub issues similar to a given description.

Parameters:

• owner: GitHub repository owner/organization

• repo: GitHub repository name

• issueDescription: Description of the issue to find similar ones for

• maxResults: Maximum number of similar issues to return (default: 5)

Implementation Notes

This implementation uses a simple Jaccard similarity coefficient to compare text. For production use, consider implementing more sophisticated NLP techniques for better similarity matching.