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Summary

Updates the external GitHub MCP server Docker image from v0.17.1 (October 2025) to v0.24.1 (December 2025).

Fixes

🐛 Resolves silent failure when posting PR review comments

This update fixes a critical bug where Claude would report success when adding PR review comments, but the comments would never actually be posted to GitHub. This occurred when commenting on unchanged lines of code.

The bug caused the add_comment_to_pending_review tool to silently fail when referencing unchanged lines, while misleadingly reporting "pull request review comment successfully added to pending review" in logs.

Changes

  • Docker image: ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:sha-23fa0ddsha-82c4930
  • Version: v0.17.1 → v0.24.1
  • File modified: src/mcp/install-mcp-server.ts:212

What's Included

This update brings 7 versions of improvements:

Security & Stability

  • Fix for silent PR comment failures (v0.22.0)
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements
  • Better error handling and retry logic

New Features

  • Lockdown mode: Content filtering for security
  • Tool-specific configuration: Minimize context window usage
  • Projects V2 support: Full GitHub Projects integration
  • Repository tree navigation: Browse repo file structure
  • Better LLM integration: Improved server instructions and PR template support

Internal Improvements

  • Official Go SDK migration (v0.24.0): Migrated from mark3labs/mcp-go to modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk (transparent to consumers)

Testing

  • ✅ All 536 tests passing
  • ✅ Type checking passed
  • ✅ Code formatting verified

Risk Assessment

Low Risk because:

  • Single line change (Docker image tag only)
  • GitHub MCP server runs in isolated Docker container
  • Only affects workflows using mcp__github__* tools
  • Easy rollback available (just revert the tag)
  • SDK migration is internal to the container

References

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Updates the external GitHub MCP server Docker image from v0.17.1 to v0.24.1.

Changes:
- Docker image: ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:sha-23fa0dd → sha-82c4930
- Version: v0.17.1 → v0.24.1

This update includes 7 versions of improvements:
- Security & stability: Bug fixes and performance improvements
- New features: Lockdown mode, tool-specific config, Projects V2 support
- Better LLM integration: Improved server instructions and PR templates
- Future compatibility: Official Go SDK migration (internal to container)

The GitHub MCP server is only enabled when mcp__github__* tools are
requested. This change is low-risk as it only affects the Docker image
tag and the server runs in an isolated container.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <[email protected]>
@zicdamasta zicdamasta merged commit 18a50af into main Dec 16, 2025
zicdamasta added a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 17, 2025
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Update GitHub MCP Server to v0.24.1
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