GitHub MCP Server

GitHub MCP Server

Enables natural language interaction with GitHub repositories, allowing listing repos, managing issues and pull requests, and reading files. Built with FastMCP and the GitHub REST API, it supports rate limiting and Docker deployment.

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GitHub MCP Server

A production-grade MCP server that lets any LLM interact with GitHub repositories via natural language using the MCP protocol over Streamable HTTP.

Tools

  • list_repos - list all repos for a GitHub user
  • get_repo - get details of a specific repo
  • list_issues - list open issues on a repo
  • create_issue - create a new issue
  • list_prs - list open pull requests
  • get_file - read a file from a repo

Stack

  • FastMCP v3 (Streamable HTTP transport)
  • GitHub REST API
  • Docker

Features

  • Rate limiting with exponential backoff (retries on 429)
  • Structured logging for every tool call
  • Error handling via raise_for_status

Setup

  1. Create a .env file:
GITHUB_TOKEN=your_github_personal_access_token
  1. Run with Docker:
docker-compose up --build -d

Connect via MCP Inspector

http://localhost:8000/mcp

Connect via Codex CLI

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.github-mcp]
type = "streamable_http"
url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp"

Port

  • 8000 (local)
  • 8009 (Docker)

GitHub

github.com/MSaiRam10/GitHubMCP

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