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github-mcp

Thin FastMCP server exposing flat GitHub tools (issues, PRs, code browsing) over the GitHub REST API. Built for local LLM clients: scalar arguments, comma-separated lists instead of JSON arrays, trimmed JSON-string responses, and failures isolated as {"error": ...}.

Why not the official github/github-mcp-server? Its default toolset alone registers 46 tools (~10-15k tokens of schema) with rich nested arguments, and self-hosted it is stdio-only. This server keeps 15 flat tools (~2-3k tokens) and speaks streamable HTTP natively, which Open WebUI consumes directly. OpenCode terminal sessions continue to use the gh CLI.

Tools

Tool

Args

Notes

get_me

Authenticated user

search_repositories

query, language, min_stars, page, per_page

Sorted by stars desc; repo exploration by popularity

get_repo

repo

Summary card: stars, forks, language, topics, license

list_issues

repo, state, labels, page, per_page

PRs filtered out; labels comma-separated

search_issues

query, repo, per_page

GitHub search syntax; repo adds repo: qualifier

get_issue

repo, number, include_comments

Body + up to 50 comments

create_issue

repo, title, body, labels, assignees

Labels/assignees comma-separated

update_issue

repo, number, title, body, state

state: open/closed

add_issue_comment

repo, number, body

list_pull_requests

repo, state, page, per_page

get_pull_request

repo, number

Body, first 100 files, CI check summary

create_pull_request

repo, title, head, base, body, draft

base defaults to repo default branch

add_pr_comment

repo, number, body

General comment, not a code review

get_file_contents

repo, path, ref

Raw text, refused above 100k chars

search_code

query, repo, per_page

GitHub code search syntax

repo arguments are always "owner/repo".

Related MCP server: GitHub MCP Agent Server

Auth

One fine-grained PAT in the environment (GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN): Issues r/w, Pull requests r/w, Contents r (also covers releases), Checks r (CI summary in get_pull_request; without it the summary degrades to a checks_error hint), Metadata r (auto-granted). Actions r is not needed today, only if workflow-run tools are added later. A local .env file is loaded if present.

Run

# stdio (default, local MCP clients)
GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=... uv run github-mcp

# streamable-http (Docker does this via MCP_TRANSPORT=http)
MCP_TRANSPORT=http MCP_PORT=3102 uv run github-mcp
curl -s http://localhost:3102/mcp   # -> 406 (streamable-http requires MCP headers)

Docker image: ghcr.io/awernick/github-mcp:main, published on every push to main. Deployed on robusto by awernick/picolino-config (robusto/github-mcp/, port 3102); Open WebUI registers it as an external tool server (Type: MCP Streamable HTTP) at http://github-mcp:3102/mcp.

Development

uv sync --dev          # or: pip install -e ".[dev]"
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
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