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Github repo

An MCP tool from the Public Knowledge server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Facts about a public GitHub repository: description, stars, forks, open issues, language, license, topics, default branch, dates, homepage and whether it is archived. Unauthenticated GitHub API, shared across the service (about 30 lookups a minute, cached 30 min).

Name on the gateway: knowledge__github_repo · read-only.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
repo requiredstring"owner/name" or a github.com URL.

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": "knowledge__github_repo",
  "arguments": {
    "repo": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the Public Knowledge server directly, which lists 47 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-knowledge https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/knowledge \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

Use the github repo tool with repo set to ….

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