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GitHub provides an extensive OpenAPI specification describing its REST API endpoints. This recipe demonstrates how to ingest GitHub’s OpenAPI definition with Karada Auto-MCP to instantly give Claude Desktop and Cursor access to repository management, issues, pull requests, and releases.

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1. Obtain GitHub’s OpenAPI Specification

GitHub maintains public OpenAPI schemas for its REST API. For this recipe, you can use the core GitHub REST API spec URL:

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2. Ingest with Karada Auto-MCP

  1. Navigate to your Karada Dashboard and click Create Project.
  2. Select the Auto-MCP template.
  3. Choose OpenAPI v3 and paste the GitHub spec URL into the specification input.
  4. Karada automatically parses GitHub’s endpoints into discrete MCP tools (e.g., repos_create_issue, pulls_list, repos_get).
  5. Filter or select the specific tool subsets your AI assistant requires.

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3. Configure GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT)

GitHub API requests require authentication. In your project’s Environment Variables tab:
  • Key: GITHUB_TOKEN
  • Value: Your fine-grained or classic GitHub Personal Access Token (ghp_...)
Karada’s proxy engine maps this token to the Authorization: Bearer <GITHUB_TOKEN> header for all outbound tool invocations.

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4. Deploy and Connect to Claude Desktop

Click Deploy to generate your hosted HTTPS endpoint, or download the local binary. Add the server to your claude_desktop_config.json:
Restart Claude Desktop. You can now prompt Claude:
  • “List all open pull requests authored by @octocat in our repository.”
  • “Create an issue titled ‘Fix CSS layout bug’ with label ‘frontend’.”