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GitHub's MCP Server: You Can Now Talk to Your Repos

Bap on May 22, 2025

What Happened - GitHub Released its Model Context Protocol Server GitHub has released a new open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) ser...
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Arindam Majumder

This is Awesome!

I've built a few Examples

One with the Official one, and another with the unofficial one.

In my MCP Video, I used the unofficial one:

This one is with the official one: Github Repo

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Anmol Baranwal

Official servers by companies prove that it's heading toward the mainstream.

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Dotallio

This is huge, being able to automate real GitHub tasks with natural language feels like unlocking a new level of productivity. Have you tried using the MCP for anything more advanced than basic issue management yet?

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Bap

Did you already play with GitHub's MCP? Keen to hear folks' experience with it.

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𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Well, Claude Desktop already has a GitHub plugin that works fine for me. And I don't see the use of using GitHub's MCP in VSCode or Cursor as it already has the code.
🤔 Can't think of any use case.

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jesterly

The state right now is still too fragmented, too much setup. Hopefully in the near future all of this will be transparent, where it's built into the AI and you just talk to it and it knows what APIs to use to complete the task.

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𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

MCPs are here to stay, Google is also doubling down on it!

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Michael Liang

Great post

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Nick K

MCP's traction is absolutely insane

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Juraj

Nice!

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MARIUAM

great