The best MCP servers for GitHub — let AI agents read repositories, search code, manage issues and pull requests, and drive GitHub Actions right from your client.
Browse all GitHub servers →The official github/github-mcp-server is maintained by GitHub itself and is the safest default — it tracks the GitHub API directly, supports both repository-scoped and org-scoped tokens, and is the one most other MCP clients document by name.
Use a fine-grained personal access token scoped to the specific repositories you want the agent working in, not a classic token with account-wide access. If you only need the agent to read code and open PRs for review (not merge them), a token without admin/merge scopes is enough.
For read-heavy workflows — searching code, reading issues, summarizing PRs — a token with only `contents:read` and `issues:read` is sufficient and meaningfully lower-risk than a full read/write token.
The official GitHub MCP server is the most widely installed — it covers issues, pull requests, code search, and Actions. This page ranks GitHub MCP servers by real usage.
Yes, when you supply a token with write scope it can create branches, commit files, and open PRs. Use a fine-grained token limited to the specific repositories the agent should touch.
Yes — you provide a GitHub token via an environment variable. Scope it to only the repositories and permissions the agent actually needs.