Consolidate Get & List tools

[charris-msft]

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

There are too many tools for models to deal with, and I would like to regularly include the GitHub MCP tools.

Proposed solution

Remote the "List" tools where there is a corresponding "Get" tool. If the "Get" tool is not passed item or set of items to get, then it returns the full list.

How will it benefit GitHub MCP Server and its users?

Reduce tool count.

Example prompts or workflows (for tools/toolsets only)

If it's a new tool or improvement, share 3–5 example prompts or workflows it would enable. Just enough detail to show the value. Clear, valuable use cases are more likely to get approved.

Additional context

We have done this in the Azure MCP server and it has been working well for us.

[LuluBeatson]

Hi @charris-msft we are currently consolidating toolsets with multiple operations. For example 6 PullRequest tools became a single pull_request_read tool with a method argument in the latest release (see "changes to tools").

[tommaso-moro]

Hi @charris-msft , thank you for sharing this. We are actively working on tools consolidation, so I am closing this.