---
title: "github-helper"
description: "Agent that uses GitHub's official hosted MCP server"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/github-helper
last-updated: 2026-09-25
---

# github-helper
Agent that uses GitHub's official hosted MCP server
- Slug: github-helper
- Publisher: ankmay0
- Repository: https://github.com/ankmay0/github-helper
- Manifest: plugins/github-helper/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 0
- MCP servers: 1 (github)
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-23
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-23
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/github-helper
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What github-helper does, in the publisher's words

A GitHub Copilot Agent Plugins 1.0 marketplace with one plugin: GitHub Helper, an agent wired to GitHub's official hosted MCP server.

Lets an agent work with your GitHub issues, pull requests, and repositories. Unlike the other examples, this plugin bundles no local server, it points at GitHub's remote MCP server, which GitHub hosts and runs for you.

- Agent: GitHub Helper (appears in the Copilot agent picker)
- MCP server: github → https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ (remote, HTTP, hosted by GitHub)
- Auth: OAuth: VS Code (1.101+) prompts you to sign in to GitHub on first use. No token to manage.
- Set chat.plugins.enabled to true in VS Code settings.
- Add this marketplace to chat.plugins.marketplaces: json { "chat.plugins.marketplaces": ["ankmay0/github-helper"] }
- Open the Extensions view, search @agentPlugins, and install github-helper.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ankmay0/github-helper/HEAD/README.md

## MCP servers

- github: transport: http; url: https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.