Reading the repo
Reading the repo
Saved setup from just now
Will it work on my device?
curl -LO "https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.1.0/github-mcp-server_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz" tar -xzf "github-mcp-server_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
curl -LO "https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.1.0/github-mcp-server_Linux_arm64.tar.gz" tar -xzf "github-mcp-server_Linux_arm64.tar.gz"
curl -LO "https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.1.0/github-mcp-server_Linux_i386.tar.gz" tar -xzf "github-mcp-server_Linux_i386.tar.gz"
A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.
docker run -i --rm -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your-token> -e GITHUB_TOOLSETS="repos,issues,pull_requests,actions,code_security" ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server
docker run -i --rm -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your-token> -e GITHUB_TOOLS="get_file_contents,issue_read,create_pull_request" ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server
From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.
No reports for Linux yet.
Opens a chat with this manual already filled in, for Linux. It uses your own account; gitmanual sends nothing.