Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

Provide a simplified installation and configuration experience to users with the GitHub cli already installed and configured.

Proposed solution

Publish the stdio server as a github extension that reuses the cli's token to authorize api actions. Installation instructions would be something like:

1. Run gh extension install github/gh-github-mcp-server
2. Add the following in VS Code User Settings (JSON):

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "github": {
        "command": "gh",
        "args": [
          "github-mcp-server",
          "stdio"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Additional context

https://docs.github.com/en/github-cli/github-cli/creating-github-cli-extensions