MCP Server

GitHub Inside Claude Code MCP Server

Name: GitHub Inside Claude Code MCP Server
Author: io.github.Kirchlive

io.github.Kirchlive/github-inside-claude-code

Repository Registry

What is the GitHub Inside Claude Code MCP server?

Normalized GitHub-CLI bridge for Claude Code — 89 ops, 6 families incl. federation sources

How to install GitHub Inside Claude Code

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

TAVILY_API_KEY
secret
API key for the Tavily federation source (gh_research_tavily_search / gh_research_tavily_research). Required only if those research ops are invoked.
BRAVE_API_KEY
secret
API key for the Brave Search federation source (gh_research_brave_search). Required only if that research op is invoked.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-inside-claude-code": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "github-inside-claude-code",
        "gh-tool-use-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-inside-claude-code": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "github-inside-claude-code",
        "gh-tool-use-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-inside-claude-code": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "github-inside-claude-code",
        "gh-tool-use-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "github-inside-claude-code": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "github-inside-claude-code",
        "gh-tool-use-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add github-inside-claude-code --env TAVILY_API_KEY=<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY> --env BRAVE_API_KEY=<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY> -- uvx github-inside-claude-code gh-tool-use-mcp