GitHub MCP Server
GitHub's official MCP server — repos, PRs, issues, Actions.
About
The official GitHub MCP server (github/github-mcp-server, MIT, ~33.6k stars) gives agents structured access to GitHub: repositories, pull requests, issues, Actions, code search, and more — without brittle web scraping.
Very actively maintained (59 releases/12mo). The default way to let an agent work with your GitHub. Requires a GitHub PAT with appropriate scopes.
What it can do
- Repos, PRs, issues, Actions
- Code search
- Official and actively maintained
- MIT open source
- Remote + local options
Setup
- Create a GitHub personal access token with the scopes you need.
- Add the server to your MCP config with the token.
- Or use the hosted remote version if your client supports it.
Prerequisites
GitHub account; personal access token.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier). Official GitHub, ~33.6k stars, MIT, very active. The canonical GitHub integration for agents. Verified tier.
★ 33,559 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.4/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.6/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.7/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · 33,559 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 1d ago; 59 releases/12mo; 354 open issues
- · manual review: GitHub's official MCP server; repos/PRs/issues/actions; very active; license: MIT
Sources
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