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Co-authored-by: steffen <6301+steffen@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull Request Overview
This PR adds two new team-related tools to the GitHub Organizations toolset:GetTeams andGetTeamMembers. These tools enable retrieving team information for authenticated users and listing team members for specific organization teams. The PR also cleans up an unused dependency reference forgo-github/v74.
- Added
GetTeamsandGetTeamMemberstools to the Organizations toolset - Added the same tools to the Context toolset
- Updated documentation to describe the new tools
- Removed unused
go-github/v74dependency entry fromgo.sum
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| pkg/github/tools.go | AddedGetTeams andGetTeamMembers tools to both theorgs andcontextTools toolsets |
| go.sum | Removed unusedgithub.com/google/go-github/v74 dependency entries |
| README.md | Added documentation for the two new tools in the Organizations section |
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| -`org`: Organization login (owner) that contains the team. (string, required) | ||
| -`team_slug`: Team slug (string, required) | ||
| -**get_teams** - Get teams |
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The documentation forget_teams is incomplete and inconsistent with the actual tool description. Based on the code incontext_tools.go, this tool retrieves teams that the user is a member of, limited to organizations accessible with current credentials. The documentation should clarify this behavior and mention the organization-scoped nature of the results.
| -**get_teams** - Get teams | |
| -**get_teams** - Get teams that the user is a member of, limited to organizations accessible with current credentials. Results are organization-scoped. |
steffen commentedOct 30, 2025
I was looking for the capability to get team members and was looking in the Not sure if we want to have two tools in two different toolsets or even move it to the other toolset. (Not sure if this would break anything.) |
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The
get_teamsandget_team_memberstools were only accessible through thecontexttoolset, making them difficult to discover when working with organizations.Changes
GetTeamsandGetTeamMembersto theorgstoolset alongside existingSearchOrgscontexttoolsetUsers can now access team-related functionality through either:
The tools themselves are unchanged; this only improves their discoverability by making them available through the organization-related toolset.
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