add experimental get_latest_version tool #172
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Context
This is an experimental feature that adds a new tool to check whether there's a newer version of the GitHub MCP server available.
The purpose of this PR is to gather feedback on whether we would like to have something like this. I see this as a moderately useful, but temporary, feature until this problem is solved by better means.
It exposes a tool that does the job by checking the latest available version of the GitHub MCP server to compare it against the current version.
Here's in action:
Note that we could tweak the response to point to the README, or a section in the README about updating.