For quick installation, use one of the one-click install buttons above. Once you complete that flow, toggle Agent mode (located by the Copilot Chat text input) and the server will start. Make sure you're using[VS Code 1.101](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_101) or[later](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates) for remote MCP and OAuth support.

Alternatively, to manually configure VS Code, choose the appropriate JSON block from the examples below and add it to your host configuration:

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Optionally, you can add a similar example (i.e. without the mcp key) to a file called`.vscode/mcp.json` in your workspace. This will allow you to share the configuration with others.

{

"inputs": [

|`users`| Anything relating to GitHub Users|

|`experiments`| Experimental features (not considered stable)|

To specify toolsets you want available to the LLM, you can pass an allow-list in two ways:

2.**Using Environment Variable**:

GITHUB_TOOLSETS="repos,issues,pull_requests,actions,code_security" ./github-mcp-server

- For GitHub Enterprise Server, prefix the hostname with the`https://` URI scheme, as it otherwise defaults to`http://`, which GitHub Enterprise Server does not support.

- For GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, use`https://YOURSUBDOMAIN.ghe.com` as the hostname.

"github": {

"command":"docker",

-`assignees`: New assignees (string[], optional)

-`milestone`: New milestone number (number, optional)

-**search_issues** - Search for issues and pull requests

-**search_issues** - Search for issues

-`query`: Search query (string, required)

-`sort`: Sort field (string, optional)

-`order`: Sort order (string, optional)

-`perPage`: Results per page (number, optional)

-`page`: Page number (number, optional)

-**search_pull_requests** - Search for pull requests in GitHub repositories using pull request search syntax

-`query`: Search query using GitHub pull request search syntax (string, required)

-`owner`: Repository owner (string, optional)

-`repo`: Repository name (string, optional)

-`sort`: Sort field by number of matches of categories, defaults to best match (string, optional)

- Enum: "comments", "reactions", "reactions-+1", "reactions--1", "reactions-smile", "reactions-thinking_face", "reactions-heart", "reactions-tada", "interactions", "created", "updated"

-`order`: Sort order (string, optional)

- Enum: "asc", "desc"

-`page`: Page number (number, optional)

-`perPage`: Results per page (number, optional)

-**merge_pull_request** - Merge a pull request

-`owner`: Repository owner (string, required)