What can the assistant change on GitHub?

Issues, comments, labels, pull requests, reviews, branches, files and releases, and merging and deleting; each waits for a person’s approval by default. Creating or deleting repositories, collaborators and teams, webhooks, deploy keys, branch protection, secrets and variables, workflow files, and rerunning or cancelling Actions are left out on purpose.

Can it read the logs of a failed Actions job?

Not the full log. It reads the error lines Actions recorded for the job, which usually explain the failure.

Does it work with GitHub Enterprise Server?

No. The connector works with github.com only; a GitHub Enterprise Server at your own address is not covered.

Does GitHub Copilot see the password or key for GitHub?

No. You sign in to GitHub through Flowplane, which keeps that sign-in sealed. GitHub Copilot only gets a Flowplane sign-in for you, which you can revoke in the console.

Can GitHub Copilot change things in GitHub without asking?

Not by default: every change in GitHub waits for your approval in the browser. Your workspace’s rules decide, per tool.

Connect GitHub Copilot to GitHub

GitHub Copilot reaches GitHub through one Flowplane address. You add GitHub once in Flowplane, add that address to GitHub Copilot, and sign in. Read code, pull requests, issues and Actions results on GitHub, and open, review or merge pull requests after you approve.

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Tools: 24 read · 20 change
Sign-in: Own account or shared key
Approval, by default: Changes wait for you
MCP server: Flowplane’s tools

1
Add GitHub in Flowplane
In the Flowplane console, add GitHub and choose Sign in with GitHub, or Use a token and paste your personal access token.
Each person connects their own GitHub account, in one of two ways. Sign in with GitHub through Flowplane’s GitHub App: it reaches only the repositories the app is installed on and that you may see, and an organisation may need an owner to approve the app. Or paste a personal access token: a classic token with the repo scope also reaches repositories in someone else’s organisation that you were only invited to. Flowplane keeps the login sealed; the assistant never sees it.
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2
Add Flowplane to GitHub Copilot
Your address is shown in the Flowplane console; it looks like
https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label>
1. In VS Code, open the command palette and run MCP: Add Server. Choose HTTP (HTTP or Server-Sent Events) and paste https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label> (or add the block below to .vscode/mcp.json).
2. Choose Authenticate, then sign in to Flowplane and allow VS Code.
3. In Copilot Chat, switch to Agent mode.
```
{
  "servers": {
    "flowplane": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label>" }
  }
}
```
Steps checked against the vendor’s documentation (Microsoft)
3
Ask GitHub Copilot
- “Which pull requests are waiting for my review?”
- “Why did the last Actions run on main fail?”
- “Summarise what changed between release v2.3.0 and main.”
- “Open an issue in our api repo for the broken login redirect, with the label bug.”
- “Review pull request 482 and request changes on the missing tests.”

What it can do

What GitHub Copilot can do in GitHub

For teams that keep their code on github.com. Through Flowplane an AI assistant can read files, branches, commits, comparisons, pull requests with their diffs and reviews, issues, releases, check results and the failures Actions recorded for a job, and search code and issues across repositories. It can open and edit issues and pull requests, comment, review, make branches, commit a file and publish a release; each of these, merging and every delete included, waits for your approval by default.

Reads24

List repositoriesYours, an owner's, or found by namelist_repos
Get repoA repository's settings and countsget_repo
List branchesThe branches of a repositorylist_branches
Read a fileA file's text, cut to a sizeget_file
List a directoryFiles and folders, one level or all belowlist_dir
List commitsThe commits of a branch or pathlist_commits
Read a commitOne commit with the files it changedget_commit
Compare two refsThe commits and files one branch has over anothercompare
Read a commit's checksPassing or not: statuses and check runsget_status
List prsThe pull requests of a repositorylist_prs
Get prOne pull requestget_pr
List pr filesThe files a pull request changeslist_pr_files
Read a pull request's diffThe changes as a unified diff, cut to a sizeget_pr_diff
List a pull request's reviewsReviews, or the code comments on itlist_pr_reviews
List issuesThe issues of a repository, filteredlist_issues
Get issueOne issueget_issue
List commentsThe discussion on an issue or pull requestlist_comments
Search issuesIssues and pull requests across repositoriessearch_issues
Search codeFind code across repositoriessearch_code
List labelsA repository's labelslist_labels
List milestonesThe milestones of a repositorylist_milestones
List releasesReleases, or one by its tag with its noteslist_releases
List Actions runsWorkflow runs, or the jobs of one runlist_action_runs
Read a job's failuresThe error lines Actions recorded for a jobget_job_annotations

Changesasks first20

Create issueOpen a new issue, asked firstcreate_issue
Edit issueChange an issue or close it, asked firstedit_issue
Add commentComment on an issue or pull request, asked firstadd_comment
Edit commentChange a comment's text, asked firstedit_comment
Change labelsAdd or remove an issue's labels, asked firstupdate_labels
Create labelMake a new label, asked firstcreate_label
Create prOpen a pull request, asked firstcreate_pr
Edit prChange a pull request, asked firstedit_pr
Request reviewAsk people for a review, asked firstrequest_review
Submit reviewApprove, request changes or comment, asked firstsubmit_review
Reply review commentReply to a code comment, asked firstreply_review_comment
Make a branchMake a new branch, asked firstcreate_branch
Write a fileCommit a file's new text, asked firstcreate_or_update_file
Create releasePublish a release, asked firstcreate_release
Merge a pull requestMerge it into its branch, asked first by defaultmerge_pr
Delete a branchRemove a branch, asked first by defaultdelete_branch
Delete a fileRemove a file in a commit, asked first by defaultdelete_file
Delete a releaseRemove a release, asked first by defaultdelete_release
Delete a labelRemove a label, asked first by defaultdelete_label
Delete a commentRemove a comment, asked first by defaultdelete_comment

FAQ

Questions

What can the assistant change on GitHub?: Issues, comments, labels, pull requests, reviews, branches, files and releases, and merging and deleting; each waits for a person’s approval by default. Creating or deleting repositories, collaborators and teams, webhooks, deploy keys, branch protection, secrets and variables, workflow files, and rerunning or cancelling Actions are left out on purpose.
Can it read the logs of a failed Actions job?: Not the full log. It reads the error lines Actions recorded for the job, which usually explain the failure.
Does it work with GitHub Enterprise Server?: No. The connector works with github.com only; a GitHub Enterprise Server at your own address is not covered.
Does GitHub Copilot see the password or key for GitHub?: No. You sign in to GitHub through Flowplane, which keeps that sign-in sealed. GitHub Copilot only gets a Flowplane sign-in for you, which you can revoke in the console.
Can GitHub Copilot change things in GitHub without asking?: Not by default: every change in GitHub waits for your approval in the browser. Your workspace’s rules decide, per tool.

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