From 733e7ea83a67d47ba1816ec4e9606bb8447990ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Michal=20August=C3=BDn?= <augustyn.michal@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 12:04:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] docs: VSCode examples fixed

---
 README.md | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 68742752..7b9e149f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -161,8 +161,6 @@ Add the following JSON block to your IDE MCP settings.
           "run",
           "-i",
           "--rm",
-          "-e",
-          "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
           "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
         ],
         "env": {
@@ -194,8 +192,6 @@ Optionally, you can add a similar example (i.e. without the mcp key) to a file c
         "run",
         "-i",
         "--rm",
-        "-e",
-        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
         "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
       ],
       "env": {
@@ -220,8 +216,6 @@ More about using MCP server tools in VS Code's [agent mode documentation](https:
         "run",
         "-i",
         "--rm",
-        "-e",
-        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
         "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
       ],
       "env": {
@@ -377,10 +371,6 @@ the hostname for GitHub Enterprise Server or GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data r
     "run",
     "-i",
     "--rm",
-    "-e",
-    "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
-    "-e",
-    "GITHUB_HOST",
     "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
     ],
     "env": {

From 663d8f090ca254111ebe64e20fa6ef550fb88b1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Michal=20August=C3=BDn?= <augustyn.michal@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 15:20:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix: env is not relevant for Docker command

---
 README.md | 26 +++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7b9e149f..26237ce6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -161,11 +161,9 @@ Add the following JSON block to your IDE MCP settings.
           "run",
           "-i",
           "--rm",
+          "-e", "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=${input:github_token}",
           "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${input:github_token}"
-        }
+        ]
       }
     }
   }
@@ -192,11 +190,9 @@ Optionally, you can add a similar example (i.e. without the mcp key) to a file c
         "run",
         "-i",
         "--rm",
+        "-e", "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=${input:github_token}",
         "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${input:github_token}"
-      }
+      ]
     }
   }
 }
@@ -216,11 +212,9 @@ More about using MCP server tools in VS Code's [agent mode documentation](https:
         "run",
         "-i",
         "--rm",
+        "-e", "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=${input:github_token}",
         "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TOKEN>"
-      }
+      ]
     }
   }
 }
@@ -371,12 +365,10 @@ the hostname for GitHub Enterprise Server or GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data r
     "run",
     "-i",
     "--rm",
+    "-e", "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=${input:github_token}",
+    "-e", "GITHUB_HOST=https://<your GHES or ghe.com domain name>",
     "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"
-    ],
-    "env": {
-        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${input:github_token}",
-        "GITHUB_HOST": "https://<your GHES or ghe.com domain name>"
-    }
+    ]
 }
 ```