# github/github-mcp-server

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.0 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 33,143 total · +8 stars today, ≈ 16 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2025-03-04 · Last push: 2026-09-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/github/github-mcp-server

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5,039
- Issues and pull requests: 2,805
- Watchers: 397
- Average over the last week: 25 per day
- Usual pace: 24 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.12.2 (2026-09-16)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-25 … 2026-09-23: 28, 34, 34, 21, 15, 17, 20, 30, 17, 27, 22, 24, 29, 35, 16, 28, 20, 29, 18, 21, 29, 20, 39, 26, 39, 26, 25, 24, 20, 8

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #22, +20 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-23 12:53 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.