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GitHub

by @Anthropic

GitHub

Interact with GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, and workflows directly from Claude.

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Install

npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-github

claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add this to your Claude Desktop config file. Find it at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS.

What this does

GitHub exposes a set of tools to Claude over the Model Context Protocol. After you add it to claude_desktop_config.json (snippet above) and restart Claude Desktop, those tools become callable inside any conversation.