Release Notes MCP Server
About
Generates comprehensive and formatted release notes from GitHub repositories, efficiently organizing commits by type and including detailed statistics using smart API usage.
Details
- Author
- nickbaumann98
- Repository
- nickbaumann98/release-notes-server
- GitHub stars
- 2
- Categories
- Developer Tools, Other, Knowledge Base, Productivity
Jump to
- 🎯 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
Setting up with Highlight
Follow these steps to add this server as a custom Highlight plugin:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
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Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Release Notes MCP ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)nodeArguments-
Argument 1
/path/to/release-notes-server/build/index.js
Environment-
GITHUB_TOKEN
your-github-token
Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
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Argument 1
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
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"
}
}
}
}
generate_release_notes
Generates release notes for a GitHub repository. Parameters: owner (string), repo (string), commitRange (object with optional fromCommit and toCommit strings), format (object with type as 'markdown', groupBy as 'type', and includeStats as boolean).
generate_release_notes
Generates release notes for a GitHub repository.
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"release notes mcp server": {
"env": {
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-github-token"
},
"args": [
"/path/to/release-notes-server/build/index.js"
],
"command": "node"
}
}
}Linux
{
"env": {
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-github-token"
},
"args": [
"/path/to/release-notes-server/build/index.js"
],
"command": "node"
}Macos
{
"env": {
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-github-token"
},
"args": [
"/path/to/release-notes-server/build/index.js"
],
"command": "node"
}Windows
{
"env": {
"GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-github-token"
},
"args": [
"/c",
"node",
"/path/to/release-notes-server/build/index.js"
],
"command": "cmd"
}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.
- 🎯 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'ssinceparameter
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" } } } }
Generates release notes for a GitHub repository.
{ "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 } }
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 } } });
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Header with generation date and statistics
- 🚀 Features
- 🐛 Fixes
- 📚 Documentation
- ⚡ Performance
- ♻️ Refactoring
- 🧪 Tests
- 🏗️ Build
- 🔧 Other
- Total commits
- Breaking changes
- Commits by type
- Commits by author
- GITHUB_TOKEN: GitHub personal access token with repo access
The server implements efficient commit fetching by:
- Using GitHub'ssinceparameter when possible to reduce API calls
- Falling back to SHA-based filtering when needed
- Properly handling pagination
- Maintaining newest-first ordering for release notes
- Enriching commits with PR data when available
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