GitHub MCP Server
GitHub (Microsoft)GitHub's official MCP server (Go) that lets AI agents interact with the GitHub platform in natural language, exposing 20+ toolsets - Repositories, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Code Security, Dependabot, Discussions, Projects, Copilot, and more. Runs locally via Docker/binary or via GitHub's remote hosted endpoint.
MIT (c) 2025 GitHub. ~31k stars. Distributed as a Go binary/Docker image (no npm/pypi).
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- MIT(OSI)
- source
- public
- core-gated
- ungated
Fully MIT, first-party GitHub server.
- https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server recorded 2026-06-17
MIT, ~30.8k stars, official GitHub server
Adoption
3 medium confidence~31k stars; no download metric for Go/Docker distribution - stars_fallback (first-party backing implies higher real usage).
- https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server recorded 2026-06-17
~30.8k stars
Capability
5 high confidenceThe most comprehensive GitHub-platform tool surface among MCP servers.
- https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server recorded 2026-06-17
toolset list
Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)