codehost-remote

codehost-remote gives you the familiar GitHub tool surface — repositories, branches, files, search, issues and pull requests — without a local REST client. Every call is forwarded as a JSON-RPC tools/call to GitHub's hosted remote MCP endpoint at https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/, and the hosted answer, whether plain JSON or a streamed SSE response, is what you get back.

That makes it the lightweight option: no GitHub API versioning to track locally, and the hosted service does the work. The trade-off is that you depend on the hosted endpoint's availability and behaviour.

Only a core subset is exposed here: 14 tools. The hosted endpoint actually serves a much larger, dynamic set of toolsets (40+ tools); this package deliberately pins the repos / issues / pull-requests core and never claims the full hosted surface.

Set GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN; it is sent as a Bearer token. GITHUB_REMOTE_MCP_URL overrides the endpoint (useful for testing).

Install

npx @reneturcios/codehost-remote get_issue '{"owner":"octocat","repo":"hello-world","issue_number":1}'
docker run -i -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/codehost-remote

Related MCP server: github-mcp-server

CLI

Every tool is a subcommand taking one JSON argument object:

codehost-remote search_repositories '{"query":"mcp language:typescript"}'
codehost-remote create_issue '{"owner":"me","repo":"proj","title":"Bug: startup crash"}'
codehost-remote --version

Exit codes: 0 success, 1 error, 2 usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/codehost-remote mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "codehost-remote": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/codehost-remote", "mcp"],
      "env": { "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-token" }
    }
  }
}

Tools

create_repository, fork_repository, create_branch, get_file_contents, create_or_update_file, push_files, search_repositories, search_code, list_issues, get_issue, create_issue, add_issue_comment, list_pull_requests, create_pull_request.

A missing token is reported as a tool error naming GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test

Tests run entirely on fake-fetch fixtures, including plain-JSON and SSE upstream bodies; no network is used.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.