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Cursor GitHub search_repositories

How to: Cursor GitHub search_repositories

client:Cursor transport:streamable-http tool:search_repositories

Add GitHub to Cursor

  1. 01

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there. 

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart Cursor.

  2. 03

    Ask for something search_repositories does. Cursor lists the server's tools on connect and calls search_repositories itself — you do not invoke it by name.

  3. 04

    If nothing happens, check the server is running and that GitHub's identifier in your config matches the one above exactly.

Use .cursor/mcp.json in a project root instead to scope it to that project. Cursor merges both. Cursor docs

Same tool, other clients

Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. The registry stores tool names only; connect the server for its live schemas.

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