Schema | github-mcp

github-mcp

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`MCP_PORT`	No	Port for the streamable HTTP transport when MCP_TRANSPORT=http. Example: 3102.
`MCP_TRANSPORT`	No	Transport mode: 'stdio' (default) or 'http'.	stdio
`GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN`	Yes	A fine-grained PAT with permissions: Issues r/w, Pull requests r/w, Contents r, Checks r, Metadata r (auto-granted).

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{ "listChanged": true }
`logging`	{}
`prompts`	{ "listChanged": false }
`resources`	{ "subscribe": false, "listChanged": false }
`extensions`	{ "io.modelcontextprotocol/ui": {} }
`experimental`	{}

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
get_meA	Get the authenticated GitHub user (login, name, profile URL).
list_issuesB	List issues in a repository.
search_issuesA	Search issues and pull requests with GitHub search syntax.
get_issueA	Get a single issue with its body and (optionally) its comments.
create_issueC	Create an issue.
update_issueA	Update an issue's title, body, or state. Title/body replace in full.
add_issue_commentB	Comment on an issue. Also works on pull requests.
list_pull_requestsB	List pull requests in a repository.
get_pull_requestA	Get a pull request with its changed files and CI check summary. Files are capped at the first 100; files_truncated is true when the PR has more. Checks summarize GitHub Actions runs on the head commit.
create_pull_requestC	Create a pull request.
add_pr_commentA	Comment on a pull request (general conversation, not a code review).
search_repositoriesA	Search repositories, sorted by popularity (stars) descending. Use this to explore existing repos and projects, e.g. find the most starred implementations of a tool or library.
get_repoA	Get a repository's summary card (stars, forks, language, topics). Use with search_repositories to evaluate repos found by popularity.
get_file_contentsA	Get the raw text contents of a file in a repository. Files larger than 100,000 characters are refused to protect the context window; fetch a narrower path instead.
search_codeB	Search code with GitHub code search syntax.

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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