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MCP Server for GitHub Issue Triage

Let any MCP-capable assistant label, dedupe and prioritise your repo's issues.

Intermediate14h1–2 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build MCP Server for GitHub Issue Triage for open-source maintainers in ~14h with 1–2 people. Stack: MCP SDK + GitHub API + Embeddings + Node.js.

Why it wins: MCP is hot and this is a concrete, useful server.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Maintainers drown in issues and the same questions are opened again and again.
02 · Solution
Build an MCP server exposing tools to list issues, find duplicates by embedding and suggest labels, so assistants can triage with approval.
03 · Build
  1. 1Scaffold a server with the MCP SDK
  2. 2Add GitHub read tools
  3. 3Add an embedding duplicate finder
  4. 4Gate write actions behind confirmation
04 · Demo
Ask an assistant 'triage new issues' and show labels and duplicate links proposed.

MVP checklist

  • List and search tools
  • Duplicate detection
  • Label suggestions
  • Dry-run mode

Tech stack

TechRole
MCP SDKModel Context Protocol tools
GitHub APIRepo + PR data
EmbeddingsSemantic similarity
Node.jsBackend runtime

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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