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GitHub Official MCP — Repositories, Pull Requests, Actions & Code Search
Official GitHub MCP server for searching repositories, inspecting PR diffs and review comments, triaging issues, and reading GitHub Actions workflow runs.
⚡ 1-Click Agent & Developer Install
Zero Auth · Ready for Grok Bot, Claude Code & Cursorclaude mcp add github -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github
Copy-Paste System Prompt / Routine Blueprint:
Connect to the GitHub Official MCP — Repositories, Pull Requests, Actions & Code Search (github-mcp) MCP server using `claude mcp add github -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github`. First run a read-only discovery check invoking `get_pull_request_diff` to verify connectivity and credentials, then summarize the structured response and ask before executing any state-modifying tool calls.
Synthesized Engineering Blueprint & Setup Guide
### Server Architecture & Capability Summary
**GitHub Official MCP — Repositories, Pull Requests, Actions & Code Search** (`github-mcp`) is a verified **STDIO** Model Context Protocol (MCP) server curated with **@steipete** for Grok Bot, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Official GitHub MCP server for searching repositories, inspecting PR diffs and review comments, triaging issues, and reading GitHub Actions workflow runs.
### 1-Click CLI Installation
Run the command below to register `github-mcp` in Claude Code or your MCP client:
```bash
claude mcp add github -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github
```
### Standard `mcpServers` JSON Configuration (`.cursor/mcp.json` / `claude_desktop_config.json`)
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"github-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"
],
"env": {
"GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "ghp_your_scoped_pat"
}
}
}
}
```
### Exposed MCP Tools
- `get_pull_request_diff` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `github-mcp`.
- `create_pull_request` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `github-mcp`.
- `search_code` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `github-mcp`.
- `list_workflow_runs` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `github-mcp`.
- `create_issue_comment` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `github-mcp`.
### Authentication & Environment Variables
- **Transport Protocol:** `stdio`
- **Auth Mechanism:** `api_key`
- `GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN`: `ghp_your_scoped_pat`
- **Documentation / Source:** [https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server)
Tags: #github-mcp#stdio#engineering#mcp-server#get-pull-request-diff#create-pull-request
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