github/github-mcp-server
GitHub's official MCP Server
About the project
GitHub's official MCP server that connects AI tools directly to GitHub's platform. It lets agents and assistants read repositories, manage issues and PRs, analyze code, and automate workflows through natural language.
Useful for
- Connect Claude Desktop or Cursor to GitHub for natural language code queries
- Automate issue triage and pull request review via an AI agent
- Monitor GitHub Actions runs and analyze build failure causes
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 8 stars so far today, about 16 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #22, +20 stars.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 33,143
- Today
- 8 · ≈ 16 by evening
- Forks
- 5,039
- Issues and pull requests
- 2,805
- Watchers
- 397
- Language
- Go
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v1.12.2 · September 16, 2026
- Created
- March 4, 2025
- Last push
- September 22, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 23, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #22, +20 stars
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