github-mcp

github-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Friz-zy/ai-capability-registry. It costs 26 tokens per session (392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Docker-based connection to the GitHub API, the service behind repositories, files, searches, and other GitHub operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading or changing repository files, managing repositories, and searching GitHub. It requires a GitHub personal access token.
Why use it?
It lets an AI agent work with GitHub through conversation instead of requiring separate API requests for each task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/friz-zy/ai-capability-registry/github
Any agent
npx skills add Friz-zy/ai-capability-registry --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Friz-zy/ai-capability-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for github-mcp

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/friz-zy/ai-capability-registry/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/friz-zy/ai-capability-registry/github)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/friz-zy/ai-capability-registry/github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/friz-zy/ai-capability-registry/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00026 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured yesterday against content hash 996901dc85f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

mcp/servers/github/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

GitHub (Archived)

Tools for interacting with the GitHub API, enabling file operations, repository management, search functionality, and more.

When to use

  • Use GitHub (Archived) only when the task directly involves the relevant service, SaaS product, platform, or technology.

Connection

Docker stdio

{
  "command": "docker",
  "args": [
    "run",
    "--rm",
    "-i",
    "-e",
    "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "mcp/github"
  ]
}

MCP instructions

  • Use the MCP tools only for the user-requested service workflow and prefer read-only operations by default.
  • Confirm the target account, workspace, project, repository, or dataset before actions that can read private data or mutate remote state.
  • This server requires authorization or environment-provided credentials; ask the user before connecting or requesting access.

Docker launch notes

  • Launch through Docker stdio with docker run --rm -i -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN mcp/github.
  • Confirm required environment variables before launch: GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN.

References

Security policy

  • Trust: trusted
  • Default mode: read_only
  • Permission default: read_only
  • Authentication: Unspecified in source metadata
  • Posture: Follow the declared defaults; this generated record does not replace server-specific review.
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 996901dc85f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository Friz-zy/ai-capability-registry (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.