oss-issues-mcp

An MCP server exposing derived, triage-oriented GitHub issue tools — not a passthrough of the GitHub API.

Where GitHub's own MCP server returns raw API responses, this server does task-specific work: stripping issue-template scaffolding, resolving whether an issue is already claimed from multiple signals, and filtering a watch-list of repositories to what is new and open.

Tools

Tool	Purpose
get_actionable_issue	Fetch an issue, strip template furniture, return only triage-relevant fields
(planned) list_new_issues	New open issues across a watch-list, pull requests excluded
(planned) get_claim_status	Is this already being worked on? (assignees + linked PRs)
(planned) get_repo_context	CONTRIBUTING.md and issue-template rules

Security

• Repository allowlist — the server refuses any repo not explicitly allowed.
• Read-only — no write tools exist until a human-approval gate governs them.
• Requires a fine-grained, read-only GITHUB_TOKEN.

Run

export GITHUB_TOKEN=github_pat_...
uv sync
uv run oss-issues-mcp

License

MIT