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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!
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radar07 commentedon May 19, 2025
@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
labelsdirectly on issues and pull requests. This would require the ability to manage theselabels– by defining thelabelstoolsets (GH MCP don't havelabelscurrently) – and then applying them to the relevant issues and PRs. LMK if I'm missing something.williammartin commentedon May 26, 2025
@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 commentedon May 29, 2025
@williammartin Thanks for the details. The
Typeis added to theIssueRequestin the latest version ofgo-github. Since this is not in thev69that we use in thegithub-mcp-serverwe can not proceed with this version. 🤔williammartin commentedon May 29, 2025
It's not a problem to bump go-github.
go-githubtov72#455radar07 commentedon May 30, 2025
Thanks @williammartin. I'll be working on bumping
go-githubtov72.