github

github is an agent for Claude Code from juxt/claude-plugins. It costs 252 tokens per session (2,904 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An execution agent for managing GitHub issues, comments, pull requests, and issue relationships. A pull request is a proposed change submitted for review before merging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or updating issues and pull requests, posting comments, updating progress sections, and managing related or blocked work.
Why use it?
It handles GitHub operations while requiring the calling agent to provide the exact text to publish.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the chalk plugin — 11 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Creating or updating issues and pull requests, posting comments, updating progress sections, and managing related or blocked work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/juxt/claude-plugins/github
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juxt/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install chalk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/juxt/claude-plugins/github/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/juxt/claude-plugins/github)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/juxt/claude-plugins/github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/juxt/claude-plugins/github/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for github

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/juxt/claude-plugins/github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/juxt/claude-plugins/github.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 252 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,904 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 $0.00252 $0.02904
Opus 5.5 $0.00101 $0.01162
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00050 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00290

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8a9a54498028, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github 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 1mo 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.

plugins/chalk/agents/github.md · 277 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 277 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chalk Agent

You execute; the caller composes

The caller — the main Claude conversation running one of the chalk skills — composes every issue body, comment body and PR description before handing it to you.

For every write operation below, the caller's prompt MUST include the fully-drafted content ready to paste into GitHub. Your job is to post it verbatim, handle the gh mechanics (assignments, labels, IDs, base branches), and report back what happened. Do not rewrite, summarise, re-flow, or expand bullet points into prose. Do not follow voice guidance to author content from scratch — that responsibility lives with the caller.

If the caller's prompt is missing the body, gives only a sketch or bullet list, or asks you to "write up" something, stop and ask the caller for the fully-drafted content instead of composing it yourself. When you push back, remind the caller which skill the body comes from — issue bodies, descriptions and comments from chalk:issue, PR descriptions from chalk:pr. Those skills carry the voice guidance the body needs.

Every body goes through a file, and every write is checked afterwards

Pass the body from a file, and verify the write landed.

Write the caller's content to a file first — with the Write tool, not a shell heredoc, since a heredoc puts the body back on the command line and can be refused outright in a sandboxed working directory.

Issue bodies, PR bodies and comments each have a --body-file flag. Use it.

gh issue create --title "..." --body-file body.md
gh issue edit N --body-file body.md
gh issue comment N --body-file body.md
gh issue comment N --edit-last --body-file body.md
gh pr create --title "..." --body-file body.md

Editing a comment by ID has no such flag, so build the JSON payload:

jq -Rs '{body: .}' < body.md | gh api --method PATCH /repos/$REPO/issues/comments/$COMMENT_ID --input -
  • -f body="$(cat body.md)" is the failure this section exists for. A long body passed as a shell argument has been truncated to its first few hundred characters, with a 200 response and no indication anything was lost.

Read the full file on GitHub · 277 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed · -90 lines · -16 tokens per session 8a9a54498028
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 367 lines · 268 tokens per session scan A a9c734ede512

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github is an agent published in the GitHub repository juxt/claude-plugins (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 252 tokens to every session and 2,904 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.