GitHub Enterprise MCP Server: Bridge Your AI Tools to Enterprise GitHub

Stop context-switching between your AI coding assistant and GitHub Enterprise. This MCP server puts your entire GitHub Enterprise ecosystem at your AI's fingertips—repositories, issues, pull requests, workflows, and enterprise admin tools, all accessible through Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI tool.

Why This Exists

If you're working in an enterprise environment, you know the pain: your AI coding assistant can help you write code, but it can't see your repositories, check PR status, or understand your workflow context. You end up constantly switching between your AI chat and GitHub Enterprise to get work done.

This MCP server changes that. It creates a direct connection between your AI tools and GitHub Enterprise, so you can manage your entire development workflow without leaving your AI assistant.

What You Get

Complete GitHub Enterprise Integration

• Repository management (create, update, delete, browse content)
• Issue and pull request workflows
• GitHub Actions integration
• Branch management and content browsing
• Enterprise-specific features (license info, system stats)
• User management for admins

Enterprise-Ready Deployment Options

• Local development with hot reload
• Docker containerization
• URL-based connections (most stable for Cursor)
• Command-line interface
• Full TypeScript implementation

Real Enterprise Features Unlike generic GitHub integrations, this server includes enterprise-specific tools that require admin permissions—license information, system statistics, and comprehensive user management across your entire GitHub Enterprise instance.

Perfect For These Workflows

Code Review Management

"Show me all open PRs in the platform-services repo that need my review"
"Create a PR from feature-branch to main with this description"
"What's the status of PR #247 in the auth-service repo?"

Repository Operations

"List all repositories under the engineering organization"
"Show me the README file from the onboarding repo"
"What branches exist in the mobile-app repository?"

Issue Tracking

"Create a bug report in the web-frontend repo about the login issue"
"What are the open high-priority issues assigned to me?"
"Show me all issues labeled 'security' across our repositories"

Workflow Automation

"Trigger the deployment workflow for the api-gateway repo"
"What's the status of the latest CI run on the main branch?"
"List all failed workflow runs from the past week"

Enterprise Administration

"How many licenses are we using in our GitHub Enterprise?"
"Show me system statistics for our GitHub Enterprise instance"
"List all users who haven't logged in for 90 days"

Getting Started

Quick Setup for Cursor (Recommended)

1. Clone and build:

git clone https://github.com/containerelic/github-enterprise-mcp.git
cd github-enterprise-mcp
npm install && npm run build

2. Set up your environment:

export GITHUB_TOKEN="your_github_enterprise_token"
export GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_URL="https://github.your-company.com/api/v3"

3. Start the server:

node dist/index.js --transport http --debug

4. Configure Cursor's .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-enterprise": {
      "url": "http://localhost:3000/sse"
    }
  }
}

Docker Deployment

For containerized environments:

docker build -t github-enterprise-mcp .
docker run -p 3000:3000 \
  -e GITHUB_TOKEN="your_token" \
  -e GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_URL="https://github.company.com/api/v3" \
  github-enterprise-mcp

Development Mode

For active development with auto-reload:

npm run dev  # Watches files and restarts automatically

Enterprise Features

This server includes tools specifically designed for GitHub Enterprise Server environments:

• License Management: Check license usage and limits
• System Statistics: Monitor your enterprise instance health
• User Administration: Create, update, suspend, and manage users
• Organization Management: Handle enterprise-wide organization settings

These features require site administrator privileges and work with both Classic and Fine-grained Personal Access Tokens.

Security & Permissions

The server respects GitHub's permission model:

• Repository operations require repo scope
• Workflow management needs actions:read and actions:write
• Enterprise features require site administrator privileges
• All tokens are handled securely through environment variables

Integration Examples

Once configured, you can use natural language to interact with your GitHub Enterprise:

Repository Management

• "Create a new private repository called 'project-alpha' with a Python gitignore"
• "Update the description of the mobile-app repository"
• "Show me the package.json file from the web-frontend repo"

Issue and PR Workflows

• "List all PRs waiting for review in repositories I maintain"
• "Create an issue in the docs repo about updating the deployment guide"
• "Merge PR #42 in the auth-service repository"

Enterprise Operations

• "How many active users do we have in our GitHub Enterprise?"
• "Show me all repositories created in the last 30 days"
• "Which workflows have failed in the past week across all repositories?"

This MCP server transforms your AI coding assistant from a code-writing tool into a complete GitHub Enterprise management interface. No more switching contexts—just natural conversations that get work done.