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MCP

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a way to integrate with tooling when doing generative AI work.

This is an awesome list of interesting MCP servers and a registry.

GitHub MCP server

Installing the GitHub MCP server for Claude is quite easy.

  1. Create an access token
  2. Add the token to an .env file
GITHUB_PAT=your_token_here
  1. Run the following command:
export GITHUB_PAT="$(grep '^GITHUB_PAT=' .env | cut -d '=' -f2-)"
claude mcp add-json github '{"type":"http","url":"https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp","headers":{"Authorization":"Bearer '"$GITHUB_PAT"'"}}'

The entire guide is included in the GitHub MCP repository documentation

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