GitHub MCP Skill#

This skill provides integrated GitHub operations via the GitHub MCP Server.

Quick Start#

Remote Server (HTTP) — Recommended#

bash

mcporter config add github --type http --url "https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/" --header "Authorization=Bearer ${GITHUB_TOKEN}"

Local Stdio Server#

Download from: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/releases

bash

mcporter config add github --type stdio --command "github-mcp-server" --env "GITHUB_TOKEN=${GITHUB_TOKEN}"

Common Operations#

List available tools#

bash

mcporter list github --schema

Call a tool#

bash

mcporter call github.<tool_name> key=value

Reference#

See references/tools.md for full tool schema and examples.