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    Model Context Protocol Tutorial

    Connect Claude Code To A GitHub MCP Server

    Matt PocockMatt Pocock

    Before we get into the abstract details about what MCP is, let's take a look at it working.

    I'm a developer and my audience is mostly developers, so let's look at a developer use case.

    Let's connect up a GitHub MCP server to Claude Code. Claude Code is a really powerful terminal app for using an LLM to modify a codebase.

    I'll walk through the whole demo in the video above, but here are the steps I followed:

    1. Install Claude Code.

    2. Get a GitHub API Key and copy it into my clipboard.

    3. Run this command:

    claude mcp add

    1. Add github-server as the name of the MCP server.

    2. Scope it to the project.

    3. Add npx as the command.

    4. Add -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github@latest as the args.

    5. Add GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=your-token-here for the env.

    6. Your MCP server should now be ready to use.

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