#1212th of 128 in MCP servers for developers
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Official GitHub command-line client for pull requests, issues and repos
- Stars
- 47k
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- Nov 2026
- Last release
- Oct 2026
- Language
- Go
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Overview
gh is GitHub's official CLI, written in Go. It runs pull request, issue and other GitHub operations from the terminal, alongside git, on macOS, Windows and Linux. It works with GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Cloud and supported Enterprise Server versions, and ships an agent skill that coding agents can use to drive it.
Who it is for: Developers and coding agents that work with GitHub from a terminal
Strengths
- Official GitHub project; packages for Homebrew, WinGet, apt, rpm and precompiled binaries
- Releases carry Sigstore build provenance attestations, verifiable with gh or cosign
- Preinstalled on GitHub-hosted Actions runners and available as a devcontainer feature
- Installs an agent skill via `gh skill install cli/cli gh` for coding agents
Weaknesses
- Only talks to GitHub; no GitLab, Bitbucket or other forges
- Not an AI project or starter; it fits this list only as a tool for agents
- Not an MCP server; agents must shell out to the gh binary
- Needs GitHub authentication to do anything useful
What it needs
- no GPU
- Needs GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Cloud or Enterprise Server, git
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