# Installer github-mcp-server avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de github-mcp-server pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:github-mcp-server
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install github-mcp-server
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#github-mcp-server
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/github-mcp-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:github-mcp-server
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.8.0
- **Résumé source:** GitHub Model Context Protocol server for AI tools
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-30T15:24:13Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- github-mcp-server (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.8.0
## Historique du projet et usages

GitHub MCP Server is GitHub's Model Context Protocol server for connecting AI tools to GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, code search, Actions, security findings, notifications, and related developer workflows.

### Historique du projet

The repository history begins in March 2025, shortly after Model Context Protocol became a common integration layer for AI tools. Early tags in April 2025 moved from release candidates to v0.1.0, and the project grew through 1.x releases during 2026.

The README documents both a GitHub-hosted remote MCP server and a local server distributed as a binary or container image. That split reflects the project's evolution from a local bridge for AI tools into an official GitHub integration surface for IDEs, agent frameworks, and GitHub Enterprise environments.

### Historique d'adoption

The server is significant because GitHub itself maintains it, turning MCP from a third-party connector pattern into an official path for AI assistants to interact with GitHub. The README lists installation paths for VS Code, Visual Studio, Claude applications, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Windsurf, Zed, and other MCP hosts.

Its rise also follows the broader MCP ecosystem introduced by Anthropic in 2024: tools expose capabilities through a shared protocol, and AI clients consume those capabilities without every client hand-building a separate GitHub integration.

### Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners use GitHub MCP Server to let AI tools browse repositories, inspect code, create or update issues and pull requests, analyze workflow failures, work with releases, examine security alerts, and assist with team collaboration tasks through natural-language workflows.

Local deployments commonly run the public container image or binary with a GitHub personal access token or OAuth flow, while remote deployments use GitHub-hosted MCP endpoints from compatible clients.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package-manager users, github-mcp-server is a visible example of AI tooling becoming ordinary developer infrastructure: a command-line server installed beside Git, gh, and editors, but aimed at giving agents authenticated, structured access to a developer's forge.

### Chronologie

- 2024: Model Context Protocol is introduced as a shared protocol for connecting AI systems to tools and data.
- 2025: GitHub MCP Server repository history begins.
- 2025: v0.1.0 is tagged after release-candidate builds.
- 2026: 1.x releases expand the server after its initial public line.

### Related projects

- GitHub MCP Server relates to GitHub Copilot, the GitHub API, the Model Context Protocol specification, MCP host applications, and local agent tools that need authenticated GitHub context.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server>
- <https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/tree/main/docs>
- <https://modelcontextprotocol.io/>
- <https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol>


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour github-mcp-server. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.


## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - github-mcp-server: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/github-mcp-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/github-mcp-server.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/github-mcp-server.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
