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Release Notes MCP Server

by nickbaumann98
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Release Notes Server

An MCP server that generates beautiful release notes from GitHub repositories. It efficiently fetches commits, organizes them by type, and presents them in a clean, readable format.

Features

  • 🎯 Smart commit filtering by date or SHA
  • 📊 Groups commits by type (features, fixes, etc.)
  • 🔍 Enriches commits with PR data
  • 📈 Includes detailed statistics
  • 🎨 Clean markdown formatting with emojis
  • ⚡ Efficient API usage with GitHub's since parameter

Installation

npm install npm run build

Usage

Add this server to your MCP configuration:

{ "mcpServers": { "release-notes": { "command": "node", "args": ["/path/to/release-notes-server/build/index.js"], "env": { "GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-github-token" } } } }

Available Tools

generate_release_notes

Generates release notes for a GitHub repository.

Parameters:

{ "owner": string, // Repository owner "repo": string, // Repository name "commitRange": { "fromCommit"?: string, // Starting commit SHA "toCommit"?: string // Ending commit SHA }, "format": { "type": "markdown", // Output format "groupBy": "type", // How to group commits "includeStats": boolean // Include commit statistics } }

Example:

const result = await use_mcp_tool({ server_name: "release-notes", tool_name: "generate_release_notes", arguments: { owner: "owner", repo: "repo", commitRange: { fromCommit: "abc123" // Get commits from this SHA }, format: { type: "markdown", groupBy: "type", includeStats: true } } });

Output Format

The generated release notes include:

  1. Header with generation date and statistics
  2. Sections grouped by commit type:
    • 🚀 Features
    • 🐛 Fixes
    • 📚 Documentation
    • ⚡ Performance
    • ♻️ Refactoring
    • 🧪 Tests
    • 🏗️ Build
    • 🔧 Other
  3. Detailed statistics including:
    • Total commits
    • Breaking changes
    • Commits by type
    • Commits by author

Environment Variables

  • GITHUB_TOKEN: GitHub personal access token with repo access

Implementation Details

The server implements efficient commit fetching by:

  1. Using GitHub's since parameter when possible to reduce API calls
  2. Falling back to SHA-based filtering when needed
  3. Properly handling pagination
  4. Maintaining newest-first ordering for release notes
  5. Enriching commits with PR data when available

License

MIT

Install Server
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security – no known vulnerabilities
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license - not found
A
quality - confirmed to work

How are these scores calculated?

remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Tools

Generates comprehensive and formatted release notes from GitHub repositories, efficiently organizing commits by type and including detailed statistics using smart API usage.

  1. Features
    1. Installation
      1. Usage
        1. Available Tools
      2. Output Format
        1. Environment Variables
          1. Implementation Details
            1. License

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