GitHub Actions
Updated June 2026✓ OfficialThe GitHub Actions MCP server, built by github, provides manage GitHub Actions workflows, runs, and secrets. It is officially maintained and best for Coding & Dev.
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Manage GitHub Actions workflows, runs, and secrets. Trigger workflows, inspect run logs, manage environment variables, and debug CI failures via AI.
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GitHub MCP Server
The GitHub MCP server is GitHub's official Model Context Protocol integration, giving AI assistants like Claude and Cursor direct, authenticated access to the GitHub platform and its full developer surface. With this MCP server, you can ask your AI to read and write repository files, create and merge branches, open and review pull requests, comment on and close issues, trigger GitHub Actions workflows, search across code repositories with GitHub's code search, and inspect commit history — all through natural-language prompts in your AI interface. Developers use it to supercharge code review workflows, automate issue triage, generate PR descriptions from diffs, bulk-update repository settings, and wire AI agents into CI/CD pipelines. The GitHub MCP server connects via a GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable with scopes for the operations you need, keeping authentication clean and auditable. Install with Docker: `docker run -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<token> ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server` — or configure it as a remote MCP server in Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Cline. With over 8,000 GitHub stars, it is the most widely deployed official code-platform MCP server and the reference implementation for AI-native GitHub automation.
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