Chapter 21: Connect Claude Code to GitHub with MCP
In this chapter, you'll connect Claude Code to the GitHub MCP server, then use it for pull request reviews, issue triage, and correlating commits with service incidents.
In the previous chapter, you learned what MCP is, how its three primitives work, and which MCP servers are most useful for sysadmins. Now it's time to connect your first MCP server: the GitHub MCP server.
GitHub is where most sysadmins and DevOps engineers spend a lot of their time. It's where infrastructure code is stored, runbooks are version-controlled, and incident investigations often reference commit SHAs.
By connecting Claude Code to GitHub, it can work directly with your repositories instead of relying on code or information that you copy and paste into the terminal.
By the end of this chapter, Claude will be able to review pull requests, triage open issues, and trace commits related to service incidents.