MCP under win11

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I’m sorry but I just can’t seem to get github-mcp to work. It lists as “green” and all the availible tools but I can’t create repos etc - only list public repos which leads me to suspect that the access token isn’t used correctly. I have double checked the token and it has the correct access rights. My mcp.json looks like this. And my Firecrawl server seems to work which also uses an access token.

{
“mcpServers”: {
“github-mcp”: {
“command”: “npx”,
“args”: [“@modelcontextprotocol/server-github”],
“env”: {
“GITHUB_TOKEN”: “secret”
}
},
“puppeteer-mcp”: {
“command”: “mcp-server-puppeteer.cmd”,
“args”: ,
“env”: {}
},
“firecrawl-mcp”: {
“command”: “firecrawl-mcp.cmd”,
“args”: ,
“env”: {
“FIRECRAWL_API_KEY”: “secret”
}
}
}
}

2

I’m answering myself. The problem was the name for the github token. It should be: GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN and it works :slight_smile: