Github MCP Server not listing all the tools

[mgan59]

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Your Question

I've setup my locally Claude Desktop Agent (mac) with several mcp-servers, I followed the quickstart guide plus enabled the file-system and git-server. Which gave me in total of 18 Tools, verified things working as expected.

I enabled the github mcp-server using (key redacted)

# claude_desktop_config.json
 "github": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"
            ],
            "env": {
                "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "{...secret...}"
            }
        }

and I'm only seeing a partial list of tools (9 in total) missing get_issue and several others, by my count there should be 16 tools.

Verification Steps

Verifying the tools that are exposed do seem to work, able to use list_issues. Just can't access their details. I've also removed all the other tools and only linked github into my claude_desktop_config.json to verify that even by itself it doesn't load the full list of tools

Also checked to make sure I have latest code

 npm info @modelcontextprotocol/server-github version
0.6.2

nvm ls
->     v22.12.0
default -> v22.12.0

Wanted to file an initial question/ask see if folks have suggestions. Next step would be to potentially clone/fork and I run the server locally on my machine and see if I can get them all to index which I may circle back to would love to help contribute back. This project is 💯 👏🏻

[mgan59]

Ugh sorry for filing, found related issue on repository, sorry for posting here -- modelcontextprotocol/servers#493