gh-search-issues

gh-search-issues is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aaddrick/gh-cli-search. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,970 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to GitHub’s command-line search for issues across repositories and organizations. GitHub issues are discussions used to report bugs, request changes, and track work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find issues across repositories, filter by labels, state, authors, assignees, dates, comments, or reactions, and include pull requests in the search.
Why use it?
It clarifies when to search all of GitHub rather than only listing issues in the repository you are currently working in.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the gh-cli-search plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaddrick/gh-cli-search/gh-search-issues
Any agent
npx skills add aaddrick/gh-cli-search --skill gh-search-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaddrick/gh-cli-search

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install gh-cli-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for gh-search-issues

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aaddrick/gh-cli-search/gh-search-issues"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaddrick/gh-cli-search/gh-search-issues.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,970 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00051 $0.02970
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01485
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00297

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6772ee2bf266, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-search-issues 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.

skills/gh-search-issues/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub CLI: Search Issues

Overview

Search for issues across GitHub repositories using gh search issues. Add --include-prs flag to also search pull requests.

⚠️ CRITICAL: Search vs List Commands

gh search issues - GitHub-wide search (THIS SKILL):

  • Searches across multiple repositories or organizations
  • Searches in specific repos outside your current directory
  • Uses GitHub's search query syntax with qualifiers
  • Examples: "Find issues in the microsoft organization", "Search for bugs in kubernetes repos"

gh issue list - Current repository only (NOT THIS SKILL):

  • Lists issues in your current working directory's repo
  • Uses simple flag-based filtering
  • Examples: "Show my issues in this repo", "List open bugs here"

When user says "my issues" or "issues here" → Use gh issue list (NOT this skill) When user specifies repo/org or cross-repo search → Use gh search issues (THIS skill)

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user explicitly indicates:

  • Searching across multiple repositories or organizations
  • Searching in a specific repo (e.g., "in kubernetes/kubernetes")
  • Cross-GitHub searches (e.g., "all my open issues across GitHub")
  • Complex queries needing search qualifiers (e.g., "comments>50 across microsoft repos")

DO NOT use this skill when:

  • User asks about "issues in this repo" or "my issues here"
  • No repo/org is specified and context is clearly current repository
  • Use gh issue list for current repo operations instead

Syntax

gh search issues [<query>] [flags]

Key Flags Reference

User Filters

Flag Purpose Example
--author <string> Created by user --author octocat
--assignee <string> Assigned to user --assignee @me
--mentions <user> Mentions specific user --mentions octocat
--commenter <user> Commented by user --commenter octocat
--team-mentions <string> Mentions team --team-mentions myteam

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 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 · 332 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 6772ee2bf266

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gh-search-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaddrick/gh-cli-search (8 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,970 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 2026-08-31.

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