Add MCP mode - allow the CLI to act like an stdio MCP

[noamta-gloat]

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

Non-stdio MCP servers are not there yet. For example with Cursor, I need to use the docker-based MCP. And even then - I have a authenticate using a PAT.

Proposed solution

The GH CLI is always "connected" with its own access token. It can be used for high level operations as well as API calls. It should be trivial and powerful to add an "mcp" command that runs the tool as an stdio MCP server.

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[babakks]

Hi @noamta-gloat, And thanks for the issue! 🙏

This has been discussed in the team in the past, and at the end we didn't prioritise it. So, there's no plan for introducing such a feature at the moment.

There's also this issue on the GitHub MCP Server repo, asking for the same thing. Please have look at that since the community has offered gh extensions for this purpose.

I'm going to close this issue.