🚀 MCP Tool for GitHub

Overview

The MCP (Model Context Protocol) Tool helps manage and track model context in GitHub repositories. It allows you to document important details like model versions, datasets, metrics, and training configurations.

Related MCP server: GitHub MCP Server

📦 Overview

The MCP Tool for GitHub is designed to help manage:

• Repositories

• Files (create/update/delete)

• User information

• GitHub API requests

✨ Features

🧑‍💻 1. User Info

• git_info(username: str)

  • Fetch public GitHub user profile information.

📁 2. Repository Management

• create_repo(repo_name: str, private: bool, description: str)

  • Create a new repository (private/public).

• delete_repo(username: str, repo_name: str)

  • Delete a repository by username and repo name.

📄 3. File Operations in Repository

• create_file(...)

  • Add a new file to a repository.

  • Content is automatically base64 encoded.

• update_file(...)

  • Update an existing file.

  • Requires the file's SHA from GitHub.

• delete_file(...)

  • Delete a file.

  • Requires SHA and commit message.

🔄 4. Request Utility

• make_request(...)

  • Handles all API interactions (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE).

  • Authenticated via GitHub Token.

  • Centralized method to perform various actions like:

    • Create repositories

    • Upload/update/delete files

    • Fetch user/repo data

🔐 5. Authentication & Setup

• Reads GitHub token securely from .env file.

• Sets proper headers (User-Agent, Accept, Authorization).

• Fully asynchronous requests using httpx.

🧰 Prerequisites

• ✅ Python 3.7+

• ✅ Git & uv installed

• ✅ GitHub Personal Access Token

📁 .env File Format

Create a .env file in the root directory and add:

GITHUB_TOKEN=your_personal_access_token_here

🛠️ Setup & Usage

# Clone the Repo
git clone https://github.com/jalaj-pandey/github-mcp-tool.git

# Change Directory
cd github-mcp-tool

# Initialize virtual environment using uv
uv init
uv venv
.venv/Scripts/activate  # Use `source ./venv/bin/activate` on Unix/Mac

# Add dependencies
uv add mcp[cli] httpx python-dotenv

# Start MCP dev server
mcp dev main.py