GitHub: MCP server, CLI and agent surfaces
Sign-in required, tools not seen, not counted. The MCP endpoint listed for GitHub at api.githubcopilot.com answered 401 with OAuth metadata on 4 November 2026. Its tools can be listed only after a person authorizes a client, and this directory never signs in.
Fact sheet
| Company | GitHub |
|---|---|
| Domain | github.com |
| Category | Developer Tools (Ora leaderboard category) |
| MCP server | Sign-in required (OAuth without client registration) |
| Tranco rank | 34 on the list of 4 November 2026 |
| Ora score | 65, grade C; Ora scanned the domain on 1 November 2026 and the cached score was read on 5 November 2026 from its score API (Ora's score page for github.com, a vendor-published score) |
| Company found through | the vendor's own documentation; the awesome-remote-mcp-servers list; Ora's public leaderboard |
| Last verified | 4 November 2026 |
MCP server
| Endpoint | https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ |
|---|---|
| How it was found | listed in the vendor's own documentation; the awesome-remote-mcp-servers list; Ora's public leaderboard |
| Transport | streamable-http |
| HTTP status | 401 |
| Connected | 4 November 2026, 20:06 UTC |
| Handshake time | 1,544 ms over 1 attempt |
| Documentation | github.com |
The endpoint answered the handshake with a sign-in challenge, so the tool list is not visible to this directory. It is not counted as an MCP server: a sign-in challenge is its own state, and the connector listed no tools.
Connector log
3 connections on 4 November 2026, read-only methods only
- 19:55:52Z https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ sent initialize result auth-required (HTTP 401) 1232 ms
- 20:01:27Z https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ sent initialize result auth-required (HTTP 401) 1664 ms
- 20:06:07Z https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ sent initialize result auth-required (HTTP 401) 1544 ms
Authentication
| Auth type | OAuth without client registration |
|---|---|
| What the challenge said | Bearer error="invalid_request", error_description="No access token was provided in this request", resource_metadata="https://api.githubcopilot.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp/" |
| Protected resource metadata | api.githubcopilot.com |
| Authorization server metadata | github.com |
| Auth as listed by a registry | API Key (a claim, not checked by connecting) |
The sign-in route, step by step
- Request
https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/without a token. It answers 401 and aWWW-Authenticateheader. - Read the OAuth metadata at
https://github.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/login/oauth. It lists no registration endpoint. - Register the client by hand in the company's developer settings, or present a client ID metadata document if the authorization server supports one.
- Authorize as a person, then retry the endpoint with the bearer token. The connector stops after step 2.
See OAuth for MCP: client ID metadata documents and dynamic registration for how each route works.
CLI
No CLI is on record for GitHub. The directory checks a package only where a source names one, so this is a floor: a company can ship a command line that no source read for this edition mentions. See shipping a CLI agents can use.
Other agent surfaces
| Surface | Result |
|---|---|
| OpenAPI file | Found: raw.githubusercontent.com (JSON, via vendor docs). |
| WebMCP in the initial HTML | Not detected on the home page by the shared crawl. |
| MCP discovery file | Not found (the crawl got a non-200 answer). |
| A2A agent card | Not found (the crawl got a non-200 answer). |
| A2A agent card (older path) | Not found (the crawl got a non-200 answer). |
| agents.json | Not found (the crawl got a non-200 answer). |
| OAuth authorization server metadata | Not found (the crawl got a non-200 answer). |
| NLWeb endpoint | Not checked in this edition. |
Registry listings
| Registry | Listed |
|---|---|
| Official MCP Registry | No |
| GitHub MCP Registry | No |
| awesome-remote-mcp-servers | Yes |
| Smithery | Yes: compoid/compoid-mcp |
| Glama | Not checked: Glama's API needs a key and attribution terms. |