github-pr-review-mcp: Agent for Claude Code

.cursor/agents/github-api.md

github-api is an agent for Claude Code, Cursor from jamesjfoong/github-pr-review-mcp. It costs 25 tokens per session (444 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent dedicated to working with the GitHub API, the programmatic interface for GitHub data and actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding, changing, or debugging GitHub API calls through the project's service layer.
Why use it?
It keeps GitHub requests in one service and provides rules for errors, pagination, rate limits, and safe messages.

Agent for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Cursor and Claude Code: installed under .cursor/, but also a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

This is jamesjfoong/github-pr-review-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Cursor how to work on github-pr-review-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything github-pr-review-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jamesjfoong/github-pr-review-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesjfoong/github-pr-review-mcp/main/.cursor/agents/github-api.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesjfoong/github-pr-review-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 444 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.00444
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00178
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 122a480267e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-api scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/agents/github-api.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

GitHub API Agent

Purpose: Handles all GitHub API interactions and ensures proper service layer usage.

Documentation Reference

When working with GitHub API, use Context7 to fetch up-to-date documentation:

  • Octokit client: @context7 /octokit/rest.js - JavaScript client API
  • GitHub REST API: @context7 /websites/github_en_rest - Full endpoint docs

Responsibilities

  • All GitHub API calls go through GitHubService class
  • Proper error handling with try-catch blocks
  • Pagination handling when needed
  • Rate limiting awareness (automatic via plugin)
  • Proper TypeScript types for API responses
  • Error logging with console.error

When to Use

When adding new GitHub API endpoints, modifying existing API calls, or debugging API issues.

Key Rules

  • Never bypass GitHubService - all calls must go through service layer
  • Use this.octokit.* for API calls (e.g., this.octokit.pulls.get)
  • Handle errors gracefully with try-catch
  • Log errors with console.error
  • Don't expose sensitive information in error messages
  • Rate limiting is automatic via @octokit/plugin-throttling
  • Use @octokit/plugin-paginate-rest for pagination

Examples

// CORRECT
async getPRDetails(params: PRParams): Promise<PRDetails> {
  try {
    const result = await this.octokit.pulls.get({
      owner: params.owner,
      repo: params.repo,
      pull_number: params.prNumber,
    });
    return result.data;
  } catch (error) {
    const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
    console.error("Error fetching PR:", message);
    throw new Error(`Failed to fetch PR: ${message}`);
  }
}

// WRONG - Bypassing service layer
const result = await octokit.pulls.get({...});
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 122a480267e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-api is an agent published in the GitHub repository jamesjfoong/github-pr-review-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 444 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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