Provides tools for interacting with GitHub, including reading files, browsing repositories, creating and updating files with commits, listing and searching repos, commits, branches, managing issues (create, read, update, comment), and handling pull requests (list, read, merge).
Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@GitHub MCP Server list my recent pull requests"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
A self-hosted MCP server that gives Claude access to your GitHub account — read files, browse repos, commit changes, and manage issues and pull requests, all from a conversation.
You deploy it to your own Railway account under your own GitHub token, so your code and credentials stay yours.
→ SETUP.md — full walkthrough, about 15 minutes.
Short version:
Create a fine-grained GitHub personal access token
Fork this repo (already forked it? sync your fork first)
Generate an auth token — a new random string you invent, not your GitHub token (openssl rand -hex 32)
Deploy to Railway with both tokens as variables
Add https://your-app.up.railway.app/mcp?key=your-auth-token as a custom connector in Claude
Verify — /mcp without the key should return 403 Forbidden, with the key should return ok
Related MCP server: mcp-github-server
Read any file, directory, or full file tree in your repos
Create and update files with real commits
List and search repos, commits, and branches
Create, read, update, and comment on issues
List, read, and merge pull requests
Search code, repos, and issues across your account
Claude shows these as 15 read-only tools and 5 write/delete tools, and lets you require approval per tool. Worth gating the write ones.
The /mcp endpoint requires a shared secret passed as ?key=. Without it, requests are rejected with 403 Forbidden. The server will not start at all unless MCP_AUTH_TOKEN is set, so it can never run unprotected.
Generate your own auth token. Do not reuse one from another deployment. Your Railway URL is public, and this server holds a GitHub token with write access to your repos — the auth token is the only thing standing between that and anyone who happens to have your URL.
/health is intentionally open so Railway's healthcheck can reach it. It exposes no data and runs no tools.
A GitHub account
A Railway account (the free tier is enough to start)
A Claude plan that supports custom connectors
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Create, deploy, and operate MCP servers directly from your GitHub repositories.
