From c607b6b0f50ca481b6cfad87ea93c09dcf4c062d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Stefan M." <StefMa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:06:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update build from source instructions

---
 README.md | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 00f49b64..438a1b2a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -92,9 +92,30 @@ More about using MCP server tools in VS Code's [agent mode documentation](https:
 ### Build from source
 
 If you don't have Docker, you can use `go` to build the binary in the
-`cmd/github-mcp-server` directory, and use the `github-mcp-server stdio`
-command with the `GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN` environment variable set to
-your token.
+`cmd/github-mcp-server` directory:
+```
+GOTOOLCHAIN=auto go install github.com/github/github-mcp-server/cmd/github-mcp-server@latest
+```
+
+The MCP servers from VS Code and Claude needs to be adjusted respectively:
+```diff
+"github": {
+- "command": "docker",
++ "command": "~/go/bin/github-mcp-server",
+  "args": [
+-  "run",
+-  "-i",
+-  "--rm",
+-  "-e",
+-  "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
+-  "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
++  "stdio"
+  ],
+  "env": {
+   "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TOKEN>"
+  }
+}
+```
 
 ## GitHub Enterprise Server
 

From ec7ae56ffe95904bf15ab0ce762663072f6dfe8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Stefan M." <StefMa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:11:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add `${input:github_token}`

---
 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 438a1b2a..05575c65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ The MCP servers from VS Code and Claude needs to be adjusted respectively:
 +  "stdio"
   ],
   "env": {
-   "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TOKEN>"
+   "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${input:github_token} OR <YOUR_TOKEN>"
   }
 }
 ```