GitHub Project Manager MCP

GitHub Project Manager MCP server enabling AI agents to manage GitHub Projects, issues, milestones, and roadmaps — creating and organizing GitHub project boards, managing issues with labels and assignments, tracking milestones, and integrating GitHub's project management features into agent-driven software development workflows.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent

Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ Developer Tools github project-management issues mcp-server github-projects roadmap

⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

100

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

HTTPS enforced. Fine-grained PAT recommended. Community MCP. Minimal scope principle for PAT.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

A development team uses GitHub Projects for project management and needs AI agents to manage project boards, issues, and milestones programmatically.

Avoid When

Your team uses Jira, Linear, or other project management tools — use dedicated MCPs for those instead.

Use Cases

• Creating and organizing GitHub project boards from planning agents
• Managing GitHub issues, labels, and assignments from development agents
• Tracking sprint milestones and roadmaps from project management agents
• Automating issue triage and organization from DevOps agents
• Generating project status reports from reporting agents
• Coordinating feature development across repositories from orchestration agents

Not For

• Teams using Jira/Linear for project management (use dedicated MCPs for those)
• Private enterprise GitHub with restricted API access
• Real-time GitHub webhooks and event streaming (polling-based)

Interface

REST API

Yes

GraphQL

Yes

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes ↗

SDK

Webhooks

OpenAPI Spec ↗

Authentication

Methods: api_key

OAuth: No Scopes: No

GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) required with project and issue permissions. GitHub CLI authentication also supported. Fine-grained PATs recommended.

Pricing

Model: freemium

Free tier: Yes

Requires CC: No

GitHub API free tier sufficient for most use cases. GitHub Projects free for public and private repos. Community MCP is free.

Agent Metadata

Pagination

cursor

Idempotent

Partial

Retry Guidance

Not documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ GitHub Projects v2 uses GraphQL — different from classic Projects REST API
⚠ PAT scopes must include project and issue read/write permissions explicitly
⚠ GraphQL API uses node IDs not integer IDs — agents must handle ID formats
⚠ Rate limits apply to both REST and GraphQL separately
⚠ Community MCP — GitHub API schema changes may break functionality
⚠ Project boards, issues, and milestones have different ID spaces — don't mix

Alternatives

mcp-atlassian-server microsoft-todo-mcp-server atlas-mcp-server

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.