#GitHub

Repo + issue + PR + code-search access across personal and org accounts.

#Get a token

Generate a Fine-grained Personal Access Token at https://github.com/settings/tokens?type=beta.

#Recommended scopes

• Use fine-grained PATs (not classic).
• Repository permissions: Contents (Read), Issues (Read & write), Pull requests (Read & write), Metadata (Read).
• Account permissions: leave default.
• Set an expiry — 90 days is a sensible cap.

#Add it to the vault

bash
mcpvault add github

Example session:

text
$ mcpvault add github
Label: personal
Description: Solo projects on github.com/elraian
Fine-grained PAT (github_pat_…): github_pat_••••••••
✓ Validated against api.github.com (rate limit: 5000/h)
✓ Saved.

#Tools exposed

• github_list_repos
• github_get_repo
• github_list_issues
• github_create_issue
• github_list_pulls
• github_get_file
• github_search_code

#Notes

• Classic PATs work too but expose the full account. Prefer fine-grained.
• If you have multiple orgs, add one mcpvault account per org instead of granting one token to all.

#Switch to this account

In any chat client wired to mcpvault, ask:

Switch to my <label> GitHub account.

The vault server's activate_account tool flips the active label. Wrappers re-read it on the next call — no restart.