GitHub ACTION
Get Current User
Gather a full snapshot of the authenticated GitHub actor, combining
/user, /user/orgs, and /user/teams. Returns profile metadata (login, name, email, company, plan, creation timestamps) and trimmed lists of organizations and teams for quick role awareness. Helpful when you need to validate which user is calling the API, adapt behavior based on their org/team memberships, or provide LLMs with grounding before repository operations. See the documentation.- Action
- Read only
- OAuth
- SDK
- MCP
IMPLEMENTATION
Call this tool
Connect a user's GitHub account once, then configure and run Get Current User from your backend or agent.
import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"
const pd = new PipedreamClient({
projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
projectEnvironment: "production",
})
const result = await pd.actions.run({
id: "github-get-current-user",
externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
configuredProps: {
github: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
},
})
console.log(result)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "github-get-current-user",
"configured_props": {
"github": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" }
}
}'// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
{
requestInit: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
"x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
"x-pd-environment": "production",
"x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
"x-pd-app-slug": "github",
},
},
},
)
const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)
const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "github-get-current-user",
arguments: {},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|
REFERENCE
Tool details
Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.
- Registry key
- github-get-current-user
- Version
- 0.0.7
- App
- GitHub
- Authentication
- OAuth
- Read-only
- Yes
- Destructive
- No
- Open world
- Yes
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗