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Description
Describe the bug
I'm using Cline and VS Code. In my mcp settings file I have:
{
"mcpServers": {
"github": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"-e",
"GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
"ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "REDACTED"
}
}
}
}
This is matching up with the options generally used for claude.
Affected version
Please run docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server ./github-mcp-server --version and paste the output below
GitHub MCP Server
Version: v0.3.0
Commit: 7aced2b0a16d18a441d6bbf33e6487f7c042df6e
Build Date: 2025-05-14T21:33:51Z
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Try using that with cline in vscode. Then click connect. I get something like:
Interestingly enough, running via docker directly starts the mcp server just fine as far as i can tell:
GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=REDACTED docker run -i --rm -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server
GitHub MCP Server running on stdio
Expected vs actual behavior
Using the steps for claude generally work for cline, but not in this case.
Logs
Inside the vscode output for the extension host i see:
2025-05-19 11:20:09.355 [error] [Window] [Extension Host] Failed to restart connection for github: McpError: MCP error -32000: Connection closed
at frt._onclose (/Users/cmachalo/.vscode/extensions/saoudrizwan.claude-dev-3.16.1/dist/extension.js:2957:94794)
at Art._transport.onclose (/Users/cmachalo/.vscode/extensions/saoudrizwan.claude-dev-3.16.1/dist/extension.js:2957:94403)
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/cmachalo/.vscode/extensions/saoudrizwan.claude-dev-3.16.1/dist/extension.js:2959:1353)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:518:28)
at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1104:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5)