GitHub MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Fetch repository metadata (description, stars, forks, primary language, open issues, last updated) for summarization or decision-making.

• 2

  Retrieve the most recent commit messages and authors to generate changelogs, surface recent activity, or assist code-review workflows.

• 3

  An MCP-compatible, stdio-run tool to integrate GitHub data into agent orchestrators like Claude Desktop or Cursor.

Description

This project provides a small MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI applications query GitHub repositories for basic metadata and recent commits. It exposes two simple tools: get_repo_summary and get_recent_commits, and runs in stdio mode to integrate with MCP-compatible orchestrators like Claude Desktop or Cursor. It requires Python 3.10+, can use an optional GitHub Personal Access Token to avoid rate limiting, and is intended to be easy to install and run locally.