Issuewatcher runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 1 Nov 2026.
Ranks new GitHub issues for your AI assistant: what to pick up, what may break your projects.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Issuewatcher 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 mcp add issuewatcher -e 'GITHUB_TOKEN=<GITHUB_TOKEN>' -- npx -y issuewatcher-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"issuewatcher": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"issuewatcher-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "<GITHUB_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.issuewatcher]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "issuewatcher-mcp"]
env = { GITHUB_TOKEN = "<GITHUB_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"issuewatcher": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"issuewatcher-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "<GITHUB_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"issuewatcher": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"issuewatcher-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "<GITHUB_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<GITHUB_TOKEN> (A GitHub personal access token with read-only access. Create one at https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
SCORING_MODE (contributor (issues you could pick up), consumer (issues that may break your projects) or both).
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Issuewatcher — questions
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