github-mcp-server

GitHub's official MCP server gives your AI assistant direct access to repos, issues, PRs, code search, and file operations. No scraping, no workarounds. You talk to your assistant, it talks to GitHub. Setup is one config block plus a personal access token.

Maintained by GitHub themselves, so it stays current with API changes. Covers the operations you actually use daily: creating branches, reviewing diffs, searching code across repos, managing issues. The scope is broad enough that it replaces most of your tab-switching.

Worth installing immediately if you use GitHub. This is the one MCP server that pays for itself on day one. The catch: it can only do what the GitHub API allows, so anything requiring the web UI (like editing Actions workflows visually) is still manual.