Add support for Projects

@LadyNaggaga

Add support for get_project_board or analyze_project_board tool where devs , leads, PMs can look at the status of work item in copilot.

Just to connect the two tasks: #117

I have a basic implementation working locally based on the original modelcontextprotocol repo. I'll try to work on getting it ported to this new repo.

I'd like the ability to add issues to a project. Right now when I create issues via the MCP server project is not specified. Is this a completely different request? Happy to create a different issue.

At Arclio, we're excited to share Github Projects MCP Server to manage projects. We also needed this functionality for our own projects, so we created this MCP Server which is open-source:
https://github.com/Arclio/github-projects-mcp

This MCP server lets you:

List and manage Projects V2 for users/orgs
Work with project items (issues, PRs, drafts)
Create issues and add them to projects
Update project item fields i.e moving a ticket across the board.

Feel free to check it out and give a star if you find it helpful or interesting.

possibly related since i understand Projects to be on GraphQL: #338

Will this support status for items in a project, start and end dates?

Statuses very from project to project, and are not shared across projects at an org level.
Dates tend to also have a variety of labeling names
Labels: Start, End, Start date, End Date, Target Date, Delivery Date

Will the tool calls be flexible enough to service prompts like:

Tell me whats over due this week?
Write me a weekly update on progress this week?
Tell me what team member has too much work on their plate? (this should look for # of assigned issues, any custom fields around priority, story points, number of sub issues and progress etc?

At Arclio, we're excited to share Github Projects MCP Server to manage projects. We also needed this functionality for our own projects, so we created this MCP Server which is open-source: https://github.com/Arclio/github-projects-mcp

This MCP server lets you:

List and manage Projects V2 for users/orgs

Work with project items (issues, PRs, drafts)

Create issues and add them to projects

Update project item fields i.e moving a ticket across the board.

Feel free to check it out and give a star if you find it helpful or interesting.

Thanks for sharing this! It would be awesome if this functionality could be upstreamed

+1

We have an in-home tools for this. But would be great and logical to have it as part of official GitHub MCP.

Hi @github team! Your projects product is something which may grow into something big and compete with tools like Jira! Having it AI enabled from the beginning will allow devs to build multiple tools and integrations around it. Cmon, API is already there. Please just add it to this server and then everyone will be able to build their patterns using prompts , not coding. Thank you!

@JoannaaKL

Hello @JoannaaKL,
I’m very glad to see new tools related to GitHub Projects.
I noticed that update_project_item was added in v0.17.0 and then removed in v0.17.1.
Do you have any plans or timeline for reintroducing it?

@amotarao

Hey @amotarao 👋 It caused schema validation issues and I had to remove it, apologies for the messy rollout. I will be looking into adding it in another form but there is no timeline yet. :)

@JoannaaKL

👋 Hi @JoannaaKL, do we have a general ETA for Projects MCP support? I'm hoping to demo this as part of our Projects Universe demo on October 28th.

@evi-liu

@evi-liu I should have a pull request ready for a review today so I think we will make it before Universe :)

Merge pull request github#44 from SamMorrowDrums/patch-1

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