Add a GitHub MCP server tool guide
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 72/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- github
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
Start by reading existing files in docs/tools/ to mirror existing guide format and decide whether this is a new page or an update to an index. Draft a GitHub MCP server guide there covering scope, setup (including GitHub Copilot CLI variants), cost-aware toolset/readonly-vs-write tuning, and when to enable or disable it, with references to multiple independent sources. Update any tools listing/overview in the docs that makes the guide discoverable. Completion is a documentation change that clearly explains these trade-offs for agents and passes a quick docs lint/build check if the repository uses one.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Summary
Add a guide for the GitHub MCP server in the docs/tools/ section. Our work — repositories, issues, and pull requests — lives in GitHub, and the official GitHub MCP server lets agents read repos and manage issues/PRs directly. It pairs naturally with our existing create-issue and pr-review skills.
The guide should cover
- What the GitHub MCP server is and what it enables (repos, issues, PRs).
- How to set it up for our agents (GitHub Copilot CLI primarily; note others).
- Cost-aware configuration — tool schemas are input tokens on every turn, so cover toolset scoping, read-only vs write, and remote vs local/Docker modes.
- When to connect it vs. leave it off.
- How it complements the
create-issue/pr-reviewskills.
Notes
- Back the findings with web research across multiple independent sources.
- Keep it tool-general where possible; be honest about the token overhead and how to minimise it.
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 1
- Forks
- 0
- Avg merge
- 20d 22h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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