GitHub (read-only) MCP Server

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GitHub (read-only) runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 174 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 8 Oct 2026.

Read-only GitHub repos, issues, PRs and commits, with tool descriptions tuned on a benchmark.

Installs per day peak 255 · avg 14 · -32% w/w

a month agotoday

174

Installs / week

pypi · github-mcp-readonly

Stars

0 open issues

8 Oct 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check GitHub (read-only) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add github-mcp -- uvx github-mcp-readonly

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "github-mcp-readonly"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.github-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["github-mcp-readonly"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "github-mcp-readonly"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "github-mcp-readonly"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: GITHUB_TOKEN (Fine-grained GitHub token with read-only access (Metadata, Contents, Issues, Pull requests).), GITHUB_MCP_TOOLSET (Tool descriptions to serve: v2 (default, optimized), v1 or v1b (benchmark baselines).). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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GitHub (read-only) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for GitHub (read-only)?

GitHub (read-only) runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package github-mcp-readonly was installed 174 times last week.

How do I connect GitHub (read-only)?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls github-mcp-readonly straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use GitHub (read-only)?

The pypi package github-mcp-readonly was installed 174 times in the last week. Week over week that is -32%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is GitHub (read-only) open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.