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Adds one entry to Claude Desktop's MCP settings that connects to the publisher's hosted server, https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/. The first time you use it, Claude Desktop opens the provider's page so you can sign in. Checked 2026-10-07: it started and asked for sign in. To take it out again, open the Cheatcode app and choose Remove next to it.

Then restart the AI app and ask for the work in plain words; it lists the new tools once it connects.

See it in use

An illustration, not a recording: it was not run here because it needs your GitHub account, signed in to GitHub's hosted server, and a repository you can change. The request and steps follow the package's own instructions, and what it shows last (its instructions) is cut unedited from README.md, lines 1005 to 1044. The triage rules and the repository name are invented for this example; Acme Notes is a fictional note-taking app and no real repository is involved.

The result

Its instructions

Issues sorted by your rules, with a summary of what changed and why.

The work as its instructions describe it, from README.md, lines 1005 to 1044, unedited. Not from a recorded session.

Open the whole result

Try it

After installing, start a new session and say: Use the GitHub MCP server to list the open issues in my repository and group them by label.

What else it can do, and its limits

GitHub's own MCP server: read code and files, manage issues and pull requests, watch Actions runs, releases and security alerts
Tools come in toolsets (repos, issues, pull_requests, actions, code_security and more) you can switch on or off
The hosted server needs only a GitHub sign in from an AI app that supports remote servers
The local version runs in Docker or from source, and signs in through the browser or with a GitHub personal access token
Has a read-only mode, and a best-effort lockdown mode that hides public content from people without push access
Can only see and change what your GitHub account is allowed to

Illustration Drawn Oct 26, 2026 from the package's own files (README.md). Not a recorded session: nothing was run, and what it shows comes from the package itself.

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Where this comes from. Listed from the public repository github/github-mcp-server. Cheatcode does not host or proxy it. github is not affiliated with Cheatcode and has not claimed this listing yet.

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Versions

v1.12.2Listed from github/github-mcp-server · 2026-09-28