GitHub.

Drop this into your client's MCP config — claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, or .cursor/mcp.json for Cursor — then restart the app. Replace placeholder paths and credentials with your own.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

First-party MCP server for the GitHub API. Read and write issues, pull requests, comments, and repository metadata. Critical for agents that need to triage, respond, or operate on GitHub-native workflows without screen-scraping the web UI.

• Search and read issues, PRs, commits
• Open and update issues and PRs
• List and create branches and tags
• Trigger and monitor Actions