Support for setting 'Type' field (feature, bug, task) in MCP

[kubbot]

Currently, the MCP server does not support setting a 'Type' field (such as feature, bug, or task) for issues or pull requests. It would be very helpful if MCP could allow users to specify the type of an issue or PR, making it easier to categorize and manage work. Please consider adding support for this feature. Thank you!

[radar07]

@williammartin Adding my experience here as I have a similar use case and I'd like to work on this.

I believe a potential approach could involve using labels directly on issues and pull requests. This would require the ability to manage these labels – by defining the labels toolsets (GH MCP don't have labels currently) – and then applying them to the relevant issues and PRs. LMK if I'm missing something.

[williammartin]

@radar07 Issue Types are a first class thing in GitHub now: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/configuring-issues/managing-issue-types-in-an-organization

I think that exposing this would be a reasonable addition.

[radar07]

@williammartin Thanks for the details. The Type is added to the IssueRequest in the latest version of go-github. Since this is not in the v69 that we use in the github-mcp-server we can not proceed with this version. 🤔

[williammartin]

It's not a problem to bump go-github.

[radar07]

Thanks @williammartin. I'll be working on bumping go-github to v72.