GitHub Issue MCP Server

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GitHub Issue MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 19 installs a week from npm. Last commit 22 Oct 2026.

AI-powered MCP server for generating GitHub issues and detecting semantic duplicates.

Installs per day peak 40 · avg 6 · +108% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · github-issue-mcp

Stars

8 open issues

22 Oct 2026

Last commit

4 releases in 90 days

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License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check GitHub Issue MCP 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-issue-mcp -e 'GITHUB_TOKEN=<GITHUB_TOKEN>' -e 'GITHUB_OWNER=<GITHUB_OWNER>' -e 'GITHUB_REPO=<GITHUB_REPO>' -e 'GEMINI_API_KEY=<GEMINI_API_KEY>' -- npx -y github-issue-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-issue-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "github-issue-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "<GEMINI_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_OWNER": "<GITHUB_OWNER>",
        "GITHUB_REPO": "<GITHUB_REPO>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<GITHUB_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.github-issue-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "github-issue-mcp"]
env = { GITHUB_TOKEN = "<GITHUB_TOKEN>", GITHUB_OWNER = "<GITHUB_OWNER>", GITHUB_REPO = "<GITHUB_REPO>", GEMINI_API_KEY = "<GEMINI_API_KEY>" }

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-issue-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "github-issue-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "<GEMINI_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_OWNER": "<GITHUB_OWNER>",
        "GITHUB_REPO": "<GITHUB_REPO>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<GITHUB_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "github-issue-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "github-issue-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "<GEMINI_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_OWNER": "<GITHUB_OWNER>",
        "GITHUB_REPO": "<GITHUB_REPO>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<GITHUB_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own values in place of <GITHUB_TOKEN> (GitHub personal access token used to access the configured repository), <GITHUB_OWNER> (GitHub repository owner or organization), <GITHUB_REPO> (GitHub repository name), <GEMINI_API_KEY> (Google Gemini API key used for AI-powered issue generation and semantic duplicate analysis). The author’s registry entry marks them as required.

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GitHub Issue MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for GitHub Issue MCP?

GitHub Issue MCP 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 npm package github-issue-mcp was installed 19 times last week.

How do I connect GitHub Issue MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls github-issue-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use GitHub Issue MCP?

The npm package github-issue-mcp was installed 19 times in the last week. Week over week that is +108%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is GitHub Issue MCP open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 8 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.