--- title: "GitHub MCP server | Agent MCP Directory" description: "GitHub: sign-in required (OAuth), tools not seen, not counted as an MCP server. Endpoint, auth type and tool list, checked by connecting on 4 November 2026." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/directory/github-com site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Directory entries" --- # GitHub MCP server | Agent MCP Directory > GitHub: sign-in required (OAuth), tools not seen, not counted as an MCP server. Endpoint, auth type and tool list, checked by connecting on 4 November 2026. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/directory/github-com Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 # 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 1. Request `https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/` without a token. It answers 401 and a `WWW-Authenticate` header. 2. Read the OAuth metadata at `https://github.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/login/oauth`. It lists no registration endpoint. 3. Register the client by hand in the company's developer settings, or present a client ID metadata document if the authorization server supports one. 4. 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](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/guides/oauth-for-mcp-cimd-dcr/) 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](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/guides/ship-a-cli-for-agents/). ## 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. | Edition 4 November 2026 Method [How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/) Data [CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/) Markdown [This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/directory/github-com/index.md) ## Sources - [GitHub MCP documentation](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server), read 4 November 2026 - [Ora score page for github.com](https://ora.ai/score/github.com?utm_source=agentmcpdirectory.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=entry), read 5 November 2026 (vendor-published score, scanned 1 November 2026, read from GET /api/score) - [GitHub website](https://github.com), read 4 November 2026 - [Official MCP Registry API, the registry read for this edition](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers), read 4 November 2026 Last reviewed 5 November 2026