generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.github.com/en/rest/about-the-rest-api/libraries-for-the-rest-api
  plus live registry metadata reads on 2026-09-17 —
  registry.npmjs.org, rubygems.org/api/v1, api.nuget.org/v3,
  proxy.golang.org, pypi.org/pypi and the GitHub releases API.
description: >-
  First-party GitHub client libraries (the Octokit family) plus the official
  GitHub CLI, all of which cover the Actions REST API surface. Versions and
  publication dates below were read from each registry's own metadata endpoint,
  not from the docs. GitHub ships no first-party Python SDK; PyGithub is the
  widely used community library and is marked official: false.
currency_finding: >-
  The three SDKs GitHub itself maintains have all gone quiet while the API they
  wrap keeps shipping. octokit (npm) and @octokit/rest last published
  2025-10-31, ten and a half months ago; octokit.rb last shipped 2025-04-24,
  nearly seventeen months ago; Octokit .NET last shipped 2025-01-08, over
  twenty months ago. Over the same window go-github — maintained by Google, not
  GitHub — released majors v74 through v92, the latest on 2026-09-14, and the
  GitHub CLI shipped v2.101.0 on 2026-09-15. So the gap is not GitHub-wide
  neglect; it is specific to the Octokit SDK family, and it is the strongest
  decay signal available on this provider because it is provider-published and
  reliably dated.
packages:
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: octokit
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/octokit
    source: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.js
    install: npm install octokit
    official: true
    version: 5.0.5
    published: '2025-10-31'
    note: >-
      All-batteries-included Octokit SDK for browser, Node.js and Deno. Read
      from registry.npmjs.org dist-tags.latest; the package's `modified`
      timestamp is the same date, so nothing has been published on any tag since.
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: "@octokit/rest"
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@octokit/rest
    source: https://github.com/octokit/rest.js
    install: npm install @octokit/rest
    official: true
    version: 22.0.1
    published: '2025-10-31'
  - language: ruby
    registry: rubygems
    name: octokit
    url: https://rubygems.org/gems/octokit
    source: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb
    install: gem install octokit
    official: true
    version: 10.0.0
    published: '2025-04-24'
  - language: dotnet
    registry: nuget
    name: Octokit
    url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Octokit
    source: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.net
    install: dotnet add package Octokit
    official: true
    version: 14.0.0
    published: '2025-01-08'
    note: Read from the NuGet v3 registration catalog entry for the latest stable version.
  - language: go
    registry: pkg.go.dev
    name: github.com/google/go-github
    url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/go-github/v92/github
    source: https://github.com/google/go-github
    install: go get github.com/google/go-github/v92/github
    official: true
    version: v92.0.0
    published: '2026-09-14'
    note: >-
      Maintained by Google; the de-facto official Go client referenced by
      GitHub's own docs. Version read from proxy.golang.org/@latest. The module
      path carries the major version, so an entry pinned at v74 (as this file
      previously recorded) points consumers eighteen majors behind.
  - language: cli
    registry: homebrew
    name: gh
    url: https://cli.github.com/
    source: https://github.com/cli/cli
    install: brew install gh
    official: true
    version: v2.101.0
    published: '2026-09-15'
    note: >-
      Official GitHub CLI; command surface catalogued in
      cli/github-actions-cli.yml. Homebrew has no unauthenticated metadata
      endpoint for a formula version, so the version here is the upstream
      release tag from the GitHub releases API, which is what the formula tracks.
  - language: go
    registry: ghcr
    name: github/github-mcp-server
    url: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server
    source: https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server
    install: docker run -i --rm -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server
    official: true
    version: v1.12.2
    published: '2026-09-16'
    note: >-
      Not an SDK — the self-hosted build of GitHub's MCP server, the local half
      of the `both` deployment recorded in mcp/github-actions-mcp.yml. Version
      from the GitHub releases API; the container image itself is distributed
      through ghcr.io, which has no unauthenticated version metadata endpoint.
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: "@octokit/webhooks-schemas"
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@octokit/webhooks-schemas
    source: https://github.com/octokit/webhooks
    install: npm install @octokit/webhooks-schemas
    official: true
    version: 7.6.1
    published: '2024-10-03'
    note: >-
      JSON Schemas for every webhook event and action — the machine-readable
      event contract catalogued in asyncapi/github-actions-webhooks.yml. Nearly
      two years behind the repository it is generated from, so consumers wanting
      current schemas read payload-schemas/ in the repo directly.
  - language: python
    registry: pypi
    name: PyGithub
    url: https://pypi.org/project/PyGithub/
    source: https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub
    install: pip install PyGithub
    official: false
    version: 2.10.0
    published: '2026-08-20'
    note: >-
      Community-maintained; GitHub ships no first-party Python SDK. Notably the
      most current client library in this list bar go-github and the CLI.
package_count: 9
official_count: 8