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Start a user migration

An MCP tool from the GitHub API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Start a user migration Initiates the generation of a user migration archive. [POST /user/migrations]

Name on the gateway: github_api__migrations_start_for_authenticated_user · may change things.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`lock_repositories`	`boolean`	Lock the repositories being migrated at the start of the migration
`exclude_metadata`	`boolean`	Indicates whether metadata should be excluded and only git source should be…
`exclude_git_data`	`boolean`	Indicates whether the repository git data should be excluded from the migration.
`exclude_attachments`	`boolean`	Do not include attachments in the migration
`exclude_releases`	`boolean`	Do not include releases in the migration
`exclude_owner_projects`	`boolean`	Indicates whether projects owned by the organization or users should be…
`org_metadata_only`	`boolean`	Indicates whether this should only include organization metadata (repositories…
`exclude`	`array`	Exclude attributes from the API response to improve performance
`repositories` required	`array`

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments

{
  "name": "github_api__migrations_start_for_authenticated_user",
  "arguments": {
    "repositories": []
  }
}

Or connect the GitHub API server directly, which lists 1,221 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http hj-github-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/github-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Use the start a user migration tool with lock_repositories set to ….