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Get a team by name

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

Get a team by name Gets a team using the team's slug. To create the slug, GitHub replaces special characters in the name string, changes all words to lowercase, and replaces spaces with a - separator. For example, "My… [GET /orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}]

Name on the gateway: github_api__teams_get_by_name · read-only.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
org requiredstringThe organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
team_slug requiredstringThe slug of the team name.

How to call it

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__teams_get_by_name",
  "arguments": {
    "org": "…",
    "team_slug": "…"
  }
}

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"

Try asking

Use the get a team by name tool with org set to ….

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