MCP server integration
Store your GitHub MCP token once in MCP Beast's Keychain entry instead of pasting a PAT into every AI client's config.
The token problem
The GitHub MCP server authenticates with a personal access token, and the standard setup has you supplying that PAT to every client that wants GitHub access — Cursor's mcp.json, Claude Code's server registration, Codex's config. Each copy is another plaintext exposure of a credential that can read and write your repositories, and rotating the PAT means editing every one of those files.
Credential copies in client configs are also a security problem, not just a chore — see the token-passthrough discussion in our MCP security guide.
How it works
Create your GitHub personal access token as usual, scoped as tightly as your workflow allows (see GitHub's MCP server docs for the current setup).
Add the GitHub MCP server to MCP Beast once and paste the PAT there — it's stored in the macOS Keychain, not in client config files.
Every AI client connected to the gateway can now use GitHub tools. Rotate the PAT in one place; no client config changes.
This is the core of the gateway model: clients connect through MCP Beast, servers are connected to it. Read the full picture in the MCP gateway guide.
FAQ
A GitHub personal access token (PAT). Without a gateway, that PAT gets pasted into each AI client's MCP configuration; with MCP Beast it's entered once and held in the macOS Keychain.
No. Clients talk to the MCP Beast endpoint; the gateway attaches the credential when it calls the GitHub MCP server. The token never appears in client config or client memory.
Update it once in MCP Beast. Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Codex keep working without touching their configs, because none of them ever held the token.
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