GitHub: List available automation tools for a repository

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Operation github.agent_automations_list_available_repo_automation_tools

Provider route: GET /agents/repos/{owner}/{repo}/automations/available-tools. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.

Call through Alter

Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/github with npm, or alter-sdk-github with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.

import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";
import { GitHubIntegration } from "@alter-ai/github";

async function execute(input: Parameters<GitHubIntegration["agentAutomations"]["agentAutomationsListAvailableRepoAutomationTools"]>[0]) {
  const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! });
  try {
    const provider = new GitHubIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! });
    const call = await provider.agentAutomations.agentAutomationsListAvailableRepoAutomationTools(input);
    const result = await call.wait();
    return result.bodyJson();
  } finally {
    await app.close();
  }
}

import os
from alter_sdk import App
from alter_sdk_github import GitHubIntegration

async def execute(arguments):
    async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app:
        provider = GitHubIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]})
        call = await provider.agent_automations.agent_automations_list_available_repo_automation_tools(arguments)
        result = await call.wait()
        return result.body_json()

Input

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
path	object	Required within parent	Additional keys: not allowed
path.owner	string	Required within parent
path.repo	string	Required within parent

Response

Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Tools available to the authenticated caller for configuring automations in a repository.
mcp_servers	array	Required within parent	Configured repository MCP servers, sorted by name. Empty when repository MCP is disabled or unconfigured.
mcp_servers[]	object	Each item	A projection of a repository MCP server’s configured tool allowlist, not live tool discovery or a guarantee of runtime availability.
mcp_servers[].name	string	Required within parent	The server name from the repository MCP configuration.
mcp_servers[].supports_wildcard	boolean	Required within parent	Whether the effective repository configuration permits selecting all tools on this server using [”*”], including future tools. Mutually exclusive with a non-empty tools list.
mcp_servers[].tools	array	Required within parent	Explicitly configured tools with server-qualified IDs, in configuration order. Empty when the server’s allowlist is [”*”].
mcp_servers[].tools[]	object	Each item	An explicitly configured MCP tool with a server-qualified ID. Descriptions and input schemas are not discovered.
mcp_servers[].tools[].id	string	Required within parent	The tool identifier in <server-name>/<tool-name> format, for example sentry/list_issues.
tool_groups	array	Required within parent	Caller-filtered built-in automation tool groups.
tool_groups[]	object	Each item	A group of tools available for use in automations Additional keys: not allowed
tool_groups[].id	string	Required within parent	The unique identifier of the group.
tool_groups[].title	string	Required within parent	The human-readable name of the group.
tool_groups[].tools	array	Required within parent	The tools currently available in this group.
tool_groups[].tools[]	object	Each item	A tool that can be selected for use in an automation. Additional keys: not allowed
tool_groups[].tools[].description	string	Required within parent	A short description of what the tool does.
tool_groups[].tools[].id	string	Required within parent	The unique identifier of the tool accepted when creating or updating an automation.
tool_groups[].tools[].scope	string	Optional	The tool’s behavior level. `read` tools only retrieve data. `write` tools can change data. This is not a GitHub token permission. Known values: read, write
tool_groups[].tools[].title	string	Required within parent	The human-readable name of the tool.

Policy, approvals and errors

SDK function policy ID: github.agent_automations_list_available_repo_automation_tools. Catalog operation: agent-automations/list-available-repo-automation-tools. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.

Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.

Pinned headers: {"X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2026-03-10", "User-Agent": "Alter", "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json"}

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