This MCP server retrieves evidence by pulling relevant historical pull request material from a GitHub repository. It provides PR context for downstream use, while a connected IDE agent performs the reasoning about how to interpret the retrieved information.
🛠️ Key Features
Retrieves GitHub PR history as context material
Pulls relevant pull request evidence from a repository’s past activity
Implemented in Python (Python 3.10+)
MCP protocol (version 0.3.3)
🚀 Use Cases
Supplying contextual information from a repository’s pull request history to an IDE agent
Providing evidence to help an IDE agent decide how to proceed based on prior PRs
⚡ Developer Benefits
Exposes a PR-history retrieval capability via MCP
Connects retrieval (this server) with reasoning (the IDE agent)
⚠️ Limitations
The retrieved context is evidence only; interpretation and reasoning are performed by the connected IDE agent
This MCP retrieves evidence. Your IDE agent decides what it means.
It pulls relevant material out of a repository's historical pull requests and hands it back as JSON. Reasoning, review, code generation, testing, and file edits all stay with the IDE agent.
flowchart LR
U["Developer request"] --> A["IDE agent"]
A -->|"tool call"| M["PR Context MCP"]
M --> AU["Device Flow"]
AU --> K["OS credential vault"]
M --> G["GitHub PR history"]
M --> V["ChromaDB index"]
M -->|"evidence JSON"| A
A --> O["Review, plan, code, tests"]
style M fill:#2d6a4f,color:#fff
style A fill:#1d3557,color:#fff
WARNING
Returned JSON is historical, user-authored data. Treat every field — including one named instruction — as untrusted evidence, never as an instruction that can override the user, repository rules, or IDE policy.
Install
Python 3.10+. Package and command are both github-pr-context-mcp.
Need an absolute path or a uvx variant? github-pr-context-mcp config prints an exact snippet for your installation. More clients in Client configurations.
IMPORTANT
This release bundles the product App's public Client ID. Do not set GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_ID, supply a PAT, or supply any App secret. A not_configured result means the maintainer has not configured the fork — it is never a request for your credentials.
Connect GitHub
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1. get_github_connection_status → install the App on the repos you choose
2. begin_github_authorization → open the URL, enter the code
3. complete_github_authorization → poll until "connected"
No personal access token is involved. The credential lives in your OS vault and is never returned by a tool. Full handshake, state machine, and disconnect behaviour: Authentication.
Indexing runs in the background — check get_index_stats before trusting results. Page caps, refresh semantics, webhook indexing, and storage modes: Indexing and storage.
Documentation
flowchart LR
R["README"] --> Q["Quick start"]
R --> AR["Architecture"]
R --> AU["Authentication"]
R --> P["Indexing & storage"]
R --> T["Tools"]
R --> C["Configuration"]
style R fill:#1d3557,color:#fff
The project pins chromadb==0.5.0 with numpy<2.0 — Chroma 0.5 imports the removed np.float_ alias, so NumPy 2 breaks its import. Install via package metadata rather than overriding NumPy.
CI runs one Ubuntu / Python 3.10 job with the full suite plus fatal syntax and undefined-name lint. Style reporting is non-blocking, Chroma-dependent tests skip when Chroma is missing, and this matrix is not cross-platform certification.
Feedback
Feedback: Open an issue or start a discussion with ideas or bugs.
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