GitHub Repo Manager MCP

This MCP server lets an AI client manage GitHub repositories through the GitHub REST and GraphQL APIs.

What This MCP Tool Can Do

• Create new repositories

• Update repo details, including description, homepage, topics/tags, and visibility

• Delete repositories

• Add topics/labels to repos for organization

• List all repos with filters

• Rename repositories

• Archive old repos

• Pin repositories via the GitHub GraphQL API

• Read file contents from repositories

• Create or update files in repositories, such as README.md

Related MCP server: @cloud9-labs/mcp-github

Security Note

Never hard-code a GitHub token in source files. Set it as an environment variable named GITHUB_TOKEN.

If you pasted a real token into chat or committed it anywhere, revoke it in GitHub and create a new token.

Setup

npm install

Create a .env file in this project folder:

GITHUB_TOKEN=github_pat_your_token_here

The token needs permissions for the operations you want to use. For fine-grained personal access tokens, grant repository administration, contents, and metadata access for the target repositories.

Classic PAT notes:

• Deleting repositories requires the delete_repo scope.

• Updating repository files requires repo contents write access.

• Pinning repositories uses GitHub GraphQL addPinnedItem; use a token that can access the target repository and update the authenticated user's pinned items.

Run

npm start

Install From npm

After this package is published, users can run it without cloning the repo:

npx github-repo-manager-mcp

Or install it globally:

npm install -g github-repo-manager-mcp
github-repo-manager-mcp

Set GITHUB_TOKEN in your MCP client environment. If you clone this repository locally, the server can also load GITHUB_TOKEN from a .env file in the project folder.

MCP Client Config

Example client config using npx:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-repo-manager": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github-repo-manager-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "github_pat_your_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Example local development config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-repo-manager": {
      "command": "C:/PROGRA~1/nodejs/node.exe",
      "args": ["C:/Users/msaad/OneDrive/Documents/github_organized/src/server.js"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "github_pat_your_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

The server also loads GITHUB_TOKEN from the local .env file automatically, so the env block is optional if .env is present.

Publish to npm

Before publishing, make sure you are logged in:

npm login

Then publish:

npm publish --access public

The package publishes only src, README.md, LICENSE, and run-mcp.cmd.

MCP Inspector on Windows

Use these settings in MCP Inspector:

Transport Type

STDIO

Command

C:\PROGRA~1\nodejs\node.exe

Arguments

C:/Users/msaad/OneDrive/Documents/github_organized/src/server.js

Use the short Node path to avoid the space in Program Files. Use forward slashes in the server path because MCP Inspector can strip backslashes from Windows paths in the Arguments field.

Available Tools

• create_repository: Create a repository for the authenticated user or an organization. Supports description, homepage, privacy, auto-init, .gitignore, license, and topics.

• update_repository: Update description, homepage, visibility/privacy, feature flags, default branch, archived state, and topics.

• delete_repository: Delete a repository. Requires confirm=true.

• add_repository_topics: Add topics without removing existing topics.

• add_repository_labels: Create labels, or update existing labels if they already exist.

• list_repositories: List repositories visible to the authenticated user, an owner, or an organization with filters for visibility, archived state, topic, name, sort, and direction.

• rename_repository: Rename a repository.

• archive_repository: Archive a repository.

• pin_repository: Pin a repository to the authenticated user's GitHub profile via GraphQL.

• get_file_content: Read a file from a repository, defaulting to README.md.

• update_file_content: Create or update a file in a repository, defaulting to README.md; it auto-fetches the current SHA when updating an existing file.

Tool Inputs

Most tools accept an optional owner. If omitted, the server uses the authenticated GitHub user's login.

get_file_content inputs:

{
  "owner": "optional-owner",
  "repo": "repo-name",
  "path": "README.md",
  "branch": "optional-branch"
}

update_file_content inputs:

{
  "owner": "optional-owner",
  "repo": "repo-name",
  "path": "README.md",
  "content": "# New content",
  "message": "Update README via MCP",
  "branch": "optional-branch"
}

To update an existing file, sha is optional because the server attempts to fetch it automatically.