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GitHub for Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot
Developers and engineering leads can ask Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot about GitHub: pull requests waiting on review, what merged since the last release, failing workflow runs and issues customers keep asking for. Access follows the repositories each person may already see, and issue or project changes are shown first. Most teams begin the guided pilot with a handful of repositories.
- Status
- Available
- Setup
- Guided pilot with your team
- AI assistants
- Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot Studio
- Access
- By role, view only or with approvals
Ask in a sentence
What can your team ask GitHub?
Questions from engineering manager, tech lead, product manager and others, answered from live GitHub data and only for the people allowed to see them.
Records it works with
- Repositories
- Pull requests
- Issues
- Projects
- Releases
- Workflow runs
- Discussions
- Engineering manager
“Which pull requests in the billing-service repository have waited more than three days for a review?”
- Tech lead
“What merged into the main branch of the web app since the 2.14 release?”
- Product manager
“Which open issues labeled customer-request have the most reactions in the mobile repository?”
- DevOps engineer
“Which runs of the deploy workflow failed this week, and on which branches?”
- Security engineer
“Which repositories in our organization have open Dependabot alerts marked critical?”
- Developer
“Who last changed the retry logic in the payments client, and in which pull request?”
Changes, governed
What the assistant can prepare in GitHub
The assistant never saves on its own. It prepares the change, the person checks the preview and confirms, and anything above your limits waits for an approver.
- 1 Prepare The assistant drafts the change from the request.
- 2 Preview and confirm The person sees exactly what will change.
- 3 Approve Above your limits, a second person decides.
- 4 Saved and logged Written to GitHub under a named person.
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Open an issue from a bug report, with labels and an assignee
Anything filed in a public repository is visible to outsiders, so a maintainer approves it first.
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Request reviewers on a pull request
The pull request author picks reviewers from the suggested list before the request goes out.
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Add issues to a project and set their status field
Moving more than ten project items at once needs the project owner to approve.
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Draft release notes from merged pull requests
Notes are saved as a draft release, and publishing it stays with a maintainer.
Example rules. During the pilot you set the limits, the approvers and which roles may prepare each change.
Why it needs care
Governance built for GitHub
Source code, unreleased features and security fixes under private review all live in GitHub. Merging stays with your branch protection rules. Issues in public repositories wait for a maintainer, moving more than ten project items needs the project owner, and release notes stay a draft until published. Every question is tied to a named person.
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Sign-in by work email
Only people you invite, with a one-time code. No shared logins.
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Roles per tool
Each role reaches only the GitHub records it needs.
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View only, if you prefer
Admins can keep a connection to lookups with one switch.
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A preview first
Every change is shown in full before anything is saved.
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Approval rules
Above your limits, a second person approves the change.
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One audit log
Every request tied to a named person, ready for review.
Setup
How GitHub gets connected
We connect GitHub for your team in a guided pilot, on the same gateway every app uses. No code on your side.
- 01
Agree the questions
We list the GitHub questions and changes your team needs, and who may use each.
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Connect with your admin
Your GitHub administrator creates a dedicated integration user with only that access.
- 03
Test with your people
A small group tries it in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot while we tune the tools.
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Roll out with rules
Roles, approval limits and the audit log are in place before everyone joins.
Then people use it from the assistant they already have
GitHub questions
Can the assistant merge pull requests?
No. Merging stays with your developers and your branch protection rules. The assistant can summarize a pull request, list its review status and check results, and prepare issue or project changes that a person confirms.
Does it work with private repositories?
Yes, for repositories the integration user can reach and your roles allow. Many teams start the pilot with a handful of repositories and add more once their owners agree, so private code is read only on behalf of people who could already see it.
Can it read GitHub Projects boards?
Yes. It can list the items in a project, group them by status or iteration, and point out items with no assignee. Changes to project fields are shown as a preview and saved only after the person confirms.
Does mcpbizapps keep a copy of our GitHub data?
No. When someone asks a question, mcpbizapps reads the answer live from GitHub through a dedicated integration user and returns it without storing it. The audit log records who asked, which tool ran and the result, with personal fields and free text removed.
GitHub is a trademark of its owner. mcpbizapps is not affiliated with GitHub; the name describes the connection only.
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Often connected alongside GitHub
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Start
Bring GitHub into your AI assistant
Tell us how your team uses GitHub, and we will plan a guided pilot around your own questions.
- We agree the tools and approval rules with you
- Your admin creates the integration user; no code
- Business data is read live and not stored
Thank you
We received your request and will reply by email to find a time.
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