GitHub MCP Server

FastMCP server for GitHub pull requests, code, and reviews.

Features

• Repository/account helpers: authenticated user, repository metadata, branches, branch creation, ref comparison.

• Pull requests: list, get, create, update, merge, changed files, commits, raw diff.

• Code: read files, list directories, search code, create/update text files, delete files.

• Reviews: list reviews, list review comments, list conversation comments, add conversation comments, create/submit/dismiss reviews, add file-level review comments, request reviewers.

Related MCP server: mcp-server-github

Create .env file

GITHUB_TOKEN=github_pat_or_personal_access_token_here
GITHUB_OWNER=owner-or-org
GITHUB_REPO=repo-name

# Optional
GITHUB_API_URL=https://api.github.com
GITHUB_API_VERSION=2022-11-28

GITHUB_OWNER and GITHUB_REPO are optional if every tool call passes owner and repo.

For fine-grained GitHub tokens, grant only the permissions you need. Common permissions:

• Pull requests: read/write

• Contents: read/write

• Metadata: read

• Issues: read/write, for pull request conversation comments

Create a virtual environment

cd PROJECT_FOLDER
python3 -m venv .venv

Activate it

source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install fastmcp requests python-dotenv

Freeze the requirements

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Test it

python3 server.py

You should see:

Starting MCP server 'github-mcp-server' with transport 'stdio'

Configure OpenCode

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "github": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "PATH_TO_YOUR_MCP_PROJECT/.venv/bin/python",
        "PATH_TO_YOUR_MCP_PROJECT/server.py"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}

Docker / HTTP mode

docker compose up --build

HTTP mode listens on port 8002.

Useful Next Features

• Issues and labels: create issues, triage labels, milestone assignment, linked PR discovery.

• Checks and CI: list check suites/runs, rerun failed checks, summarize failing annotations.

• Actions workflows: list workflow runs, trigger workflow_dispatch, download artifacts.

• Releases and tags: draft releases, generate changelog notes, compare release refs.

• Branch protection: inspect required checks, review rules, and merge restrictions.

• Security: Dependabot alerts, secret scanning alerts, code scanning alerts, SARIF summaries.

• Repository admin: collaborators, teams, permissions, rulesets, webhooks.

• Notifications: list assigned/review-requested items across repositories.

• Project planning: GitHub Projects items, statuses, and field updates.