Getting Started

Repo Crawler MCP turns GitHub repositories into structured intelligence for AI agents. Metadata, issues, security alerts, SBOMs — all through one tool call.

Installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "repo-crawler": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@mcptoolshop/repo-crawler-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "ghp_your_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

GitHub token

With token	Without token
5,000 requests/hour	60 requests/hour

Token scopes by tier:

Tier	Required Scopes
Tier 1	public_repo (or repo for private repos)
Tier 2	Same + push/admin access for traffic data
Tier 3	Same + security_events for Dependabot, code scanning, secret scanning

First crawl

Ask your LLM to crawl any public repo:

crawl_repo({ owner: "facebook", repo: "react", tier: "1" })

This returns metadata, file tree, languages, README, commits, contributors, branches, tags, releases, community health, and CI workflows — all from about 11 API calls.