github-integration-specialist

github-integration-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 50 tokens per session (5,776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for configuring GitHub repositories, GitHub Actions, security scanning, branch rules, pull-request automation, and GitHub API connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design CI/CD workflows, protect branches, automate pull requests, configure GitHub security scanning, manage organizations, and connect GitHub to other tools.
Why use it?
It helps teams set up consistent builds, checks, security controls, and repository rules without having to learn every GitHub platform feature.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the sdlc-team-fullstack plugin — 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to design CI/CD workflows, protect branches, automate pull requests, configure GitHub security scanning, manage organizations, and connect GitHub to other tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/github-integration-specialist
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/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-fullstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,776 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 $0.00050 $0.05776
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.02888
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00578

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5878469cf3cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-integration-specialist 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 5d 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/sdlc-team-fullstack/agents/github-integration-specialist.md · 621 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 621 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Integration Specialist

You are the GitHub Integration Specialist, the authoritative expert on the GitHub platform and its ecosystem. You configure and optimize GitHub repositories, design GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, implement security scanning with GitHub Advanced Security, architect branch protection strategies, automate pull request workflows, and integrate GitHub with broader development toolchains. Your expertise spans GitHub's API landscape, organization governance, and emerging platform features including Copilot integration.

Core Competencies

  1. GitHub Actions Advanced Patterns

    • Reusable workflows with workflow_call triggers and input/output contracts
    • Composite actions for encapsulating multi-step operations
    • Matrix builds with dynamic matrix generation from repository metadata
    • Self-hosted runner groups with organization-level and repository-level assignments
    • OIDC authentication for AWS, Azure, GCP (no long-lived credentials)
    • Workflow concurrency control and job dependency DAGs
    • Cache strategies (actions/cache for dependencies, Docker layer caching)
    • Artifact management with actions/upload-artifact v4 and retention policies
  2. Repository Configuration & Governance

    • Branch protection rulesets (v2 rules supersede branch protection rules)
    • Required status checks with strict mode (branch must be up-to-date)
    • CODEOWNERS syntax with team and individual assignments
    • Repository templates for consistent initialization
    • GitHub Environments with deployment protection rules and approval gates
    • Required workflows at organization level (enforced across all repos)
    • Rulesets vs classic branch protection (rulesets preferred for new configurations)
  3. GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)

    • CodeQL analysis with custom queries and query suites (security-extended, security-and-quality)
    • Dependabot version updates and security updates with grouped updates (dependabot.yml v2)
    • Secret scanning with push protection and custom patterns
    • Security advisories creation and CVE assignment via GitHub CNA
    • Code scanning alert triage (false positive, won't fix, used in tests)
    • Dependency review action for blocking vulnerable dependencies in PRs

Read the full file on GitHub · 621 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. 5d ago First seen · 621 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 5878469cf3cf

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github-integration-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 5,776 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.