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ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server
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## Read-Only Mode

To run the server in read-only mode, you can use the `--read-only` flag. This will only offer read-only tools, preventing any modifications to repositories, issues, pull requests, etc.

```bash
./github-mcp-server --read-only
```

When using Docker, you can pass the read-only mode as an environment variable:

```bash
docker run -i --rm \
-e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your-token> \
-e GITHUB_READ_ONLY=1 \
ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server
```

## GitHub Enterprise Server and Enterprise Cloud with data residency (ghe.com)

The flag `--gh-host` and the environment variable `GITHUB_HOST` can be used to set
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