GitHub MCP Server

GitHub Meta MCP Server

Create GitHub repositories and edit their description, topics and website from a Claude conversation.

A small Model Context Protocol server with one tool. You (or Claude) pass a plain-English command; the server picks it apart with simple pattern matching and calls the GitHub REST API with your token. There is no language model inside the server, so the wording matters.

Status

Last updated May 2026. Checked in November 2026: npm ci and npm run build succeed, the server starts, and commands in the forms below parse and reach the GitHub API. Calls with a real token were not tested.

Tool

create_repo

One argument, command (string). It understands four forms:

Command	What happens
Create a repository for my machine learning project	Creates a public repo under your account, initialized with a README. The words after for, called or named, up to the first comma or period, become the description, and a slug of them becomes the name (here my-machine-learning-project).
Update owner/repo description to A better description	Replaces the description.
Set owner/repo topics to ai mcp tools	Replaces all topics. Topics are split on spaces or commas and lowercased.
Update owner/repo website to https://example.com	Sets the homepage URL.

Things to know:

• Create commands must say repository, not repo: "Create a repo called lunchbox" is rejected.
• Update commands need the repository as owner/repo, right after update, change or set.
• Any command containing update, change or set anywhere, even inside a word such as "dataset", is treated as an update.
• Set topics with an update command after creating the repo. The server passes topics from a create command to GitHub's create-repository API, which does not accept them.
• New repos are always public. There is no option to make them private.
• There is no delete.

Install

Build from source with Node 18 or newer:

git clone https://github.com/joewilsonai/github-meta-mcp-server
cd github-meta-mcp-server
npm ci
npm run build

Configure Claude Desktop

Add this to claude_desktop_config.json, with the absolute path to your clone and your own token:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-meta": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/github-meta-mcp-server/build/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<your-github-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop and the create_repo tool appears.

The token is read from the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable only; the server will not start without it. A classic personal access token with the repo scope (or public_repo, since new repos are public) covers everything the tool does. Create one in GitHub token settings.

Built with

TypeScript, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 0.6.0 and Octokit.