What is ghx-cli CLAUDE.md?

A project guide for ghx-cli, a Go command-line tool that adds GitHub features missing from GitHub’s official command-line tool, including Projects and Discussions management.

Use it when modifying ghx-cli, especially its GitHub Projects or Discussions features, or when running its build and test workflow.

It gives the coding agent the project’s structure and the exact commands for building, testing, linting, and formatting, reducing guesswork during changes.

How roboco-io/ghx-cli configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to roboco-io/ghx-cli. 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

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roboco-io/ghx-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 979 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 979 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00979	$0.00979
Opus 5.5	$0.00392	$0.00392
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00196	$0.00196
Haiku 4.5	$0.00098	$0.00098

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e2fea21831a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ghx-cli CLAUDE.md 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.

CLAUDE.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

ghx-cli (GitHub eXtensions) is a Go CLI tool for GitHub features not fully supported by the official gh CLI. It uses GitHub's GraphQL API to provide:

GitHub Projects v2: View management, workflow automation, bulk operations, analytics
GitHub Discussions: Full discussion management (create, comment, answer, close, lock)

Build and Development Commands

# Build
make build              # Build binary to bin/ghx
make install            # Build and install to GOPATH/bin

# Testing
make test               # Run all tests with race detection and coverage
make test-unit          # Run unit tests only (short mode)
go test -v ./internal/service/...  # Run tests for a specific package

# Linting
make lint               # Run golangci-lint (strict config in .golangci.yml)

# Code formatting
make fmt                # Format code with gofmt and tidy modules

# Run directly
go run ./cmd/ghx        # Run without building

Architecture

cmd/
  ghx/main.go           # Entry point, sets version info
  root.go               # Root cobra command, registers subcommands

internal/
  api/
    client.go           # GraphQL client with rate limiting and retry logic
    graphql/            # GraphQL queries, mutations, and type definitions
      projects.go       # Project-related queries/mutations
      items.go          # Item operations
      fields.go         # Field operations
      views.go          # View operations
      discussions.go    # Discussion operations
      workflows.go      # Workflow automation
      analytics.go      # Analytics queries

  auth/
    manager.go          # Authentication manager (gh CLI token integration)
    gh_integration.go   # GitHub CLI token extraction

  cmd/                  # Cobra command definitions
    project/            # ghx project [create|list|view|edit|delete|export|import|link|workflow|template]
    item/               # ghx item [add|list|view|edit|remove|add-bulk|update-bulk]
    field/              # ghx field [create|list|update|delete|add-option|update-option|delete-option]
    view/               # ghx view [create|list|update|delete|copy|sort|group]
    discussion/         # ghx discussion [list|view|create|edit|delete|close|reopen|lock|unlock|comment|answer|category]
    analytics/          # ghx analytics [overview|export|bulk-update]
    auth/               # ghx auth [status]

  service/              # Business logic layer between commands and API
    project.go          # Project operations, export/import logic
    item.go             # Item operations
    field.go            # Field operations
    view.go             # View operations
    discussion.go       # Discussion operations
    workflow.go         # Workflow automation
    analytics.go        # Analytics and reporting

pkg/models/             # Shared data models

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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.

2mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 979 tokens per session scan A e2fea21831a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ghx-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository roboco-io/ghx-cli (5 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 979 tokens to every session, about $0.0039 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.

Git and workflow Project management

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