GitHub MCP Server

by jasona7

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A MCP Server with tools for interfacing with Discussions on Github

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Author: jasona7
Downloads: 532
Categories: Developer Tools, Automation

Setting up with Highlight

This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:

Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
Configure the plugin with the settings below

Plugin Name GitHub MCP Server

Command (node, npx, python, etc.)

Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches

Setting up with Cursor

Open Cursor's settings
Navigate to the MCP section
Click "Add new Global MCP server"
Copy and paste the configuration below based on your operating system

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Claude Desktop

Open Claude Desktop's settings
Go to the Integrations tab
Click "Add MCP Server"
Use the configuration below based on your operating system

Note: Make sure Claude Desktop is running before attempting to connect.

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Windsurf

Open Windsurf's preferences
Go to the Integrations section
Click "Add MCP Integration"
Use the configuration below based on your operating system

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Cline

Open Cline's settings
Navigate to the Integrations section
Click "Add MCP Server"
Copy and paste the configuration below based on your operating system

Note: Make sure to restart Cline after adding the configuration.

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting up with Goose

Open Goose's preferences
Go to the Integrations tab
Select "MCP Servers"
Click "Add New Server"
Use the configuration below based on your operating system

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

JSON

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

From the repository

After installing dependencies (pip install requests) and setting the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable, start the server with python scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py. Use the included client (python scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_client.py) to interact via a terminal UI or call the exposed tools directly.

Claude Desktop / Cursor

Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "github mcp server": {
            "mcp_github_discussions": {
                "command": "python",
                "args": [
                    "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

McpServers

{
    "mcp_github_discussions": {
        "command": "python",
        "args": [
            "scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py"
        ]
    }
}

GitHub MCP Server

A versatile and powerful server implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), designed to seamlessly interact with GitHub repositories, issues, discussions, and beyond. This server enables efficient management, automation, and enhanced collaboration by providing a structured interface to query, update, and analyze GitHub data. With support for integrating custom workflows, handling repository metadata, and facilitating real-time interactions with issues and discussions, the MCP server empowers developers and teams to streamline their GitHub experience. Whether you're building tools, automating tasks, or exploring new ways to engage with GitHub's ecosystem, this server offers a robust foundation for your projects.

Overview

This MCP server provides a bridge between AI assistants and the GitHub API, allowing AI models to perform actions like:

- Searching repositories
- Viewing discussions
- Analyzing repository activity
- Fetching repository statistics

Features

- Repository Management: Search, analyze, and interact with GitHub repositories
- Discussion Integration: Analyze GitHub Discussions
- Activity Analysis: Get insights on repository activity and contributions
- Search Capabilities: Advanced search for repositories, code, and discussions

Installation

Prerequisites

- Python 3.8+
- GitHub Personal Access Token with appropriate permissions

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/jasona7/mcp_github_discussions.git

   cd mcp_github_discussions

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install requests

3. Set up your GitHub token in the environment variable:

   export GITHUB_TOKEN=your_github_personal_access_token

Usage

Starting the Server

Run the server with:

python scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_server.py

The server will start on localhost:8004 by default.

Available Tools

The server provides the following tools:

- search_repositories: Search for repositories based on various criteria
- get_repository_details: Get detailed information about a repository
- get_repository_issues: Fetch issues from a repository
- get_repository_discussions: Fetch discussions from a repository
- get_top_repos_by_activity: Get trending repositories by activity

Configuration

The server can be configured using environment variables:

- GITHUB_TOKEN: Your GitHub Personal Access Token
- MCP_HOST: Host to bind the server to (default: localhost)
- MCP_PORT: Port to bind the server to (default: 8004)

Using the Client

python scripts/mcp/github/mcp_github_client.py ╭──────────────────────────────── GitHub Discussions Explorer ────────────────────────────────╮ │ MCP GitHub Discussions Explorer │ │ A terminal UI for interacting with GitHub Discussions │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ Connecting to server... Connected to server. 5 tools available. Available Actions: 1. Browse Top Repositories 2. List Discussions (by repo) 3. Get Discussion Details 4. Check Server Status 5. Exit 6. Toggle Debug Mode Enter the number of the action you want to perform [1/2/3/4/5/6] (1): 1 Browse Top Repositories: 1. Top Repos by Recent Activity 2. Top Repos by Star Count 3. Top Python Repos 4. Top JavaScript Repos 5. Top AI/LLM Repos 6. Back to Main Menu Select repository category [1/2/3/4/5/6] (1): 3 Number of repositories to show (10): 3 Finding top Python repositories... Top Repositories (3) ┏━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ # ┃ Repository ┃ Stars ┃ Language ┃ Has Discussions ┃ ┡━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ 1 │ public-apis/public-apis │ 334406 │ Python │ ✗ │ │ 2 │ donnemartin/system-design-primer │ 294897 │ Python │ ✗ │ │ 3 │ vinta/awesome-python │ 238668 │ Python │ ✗ │ └───┴──────────────────────────────────┴────────┴──────────┴─────────────────┘ None of the repositories have discussions enabled.

Available Actions: 1. Browse Top Repositories 2. List Discussions (by repo) 3. Get Discussion Details 4. Check Server Status 5. Exit 6. Toggle Debug Mode Enter the number of the action you want to perform [1/2/3/4/5/6] (1):

Troubleshooting

- Connection Refused: Make sure the server is running and the port is not blocked by a firewall
- Authentication Errors: Verify your GitHub token has the necessary permissions
- Rate Limiting: GitHub API has rate limits; the server will handle these but may slow down during heavy usage

License

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

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