github

A reusable guide for creating GitHub pull requests, which are proposed code changes reviewed before they are merged. It uses the command-line GitHub tool and follows each repository’s documented conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a correctly named branch, commit changes, open a pull request, apply repository labels or milestones, and update a linked Jira issue.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember each project’s branch names, commit wording, pull-request format, and labels. It also helps assemble the request from the actual code changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/alirezasoltanijazi/skillnir/github
Any agent
npx skills add AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,680 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 $0.00128 $0.02680
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01340
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00536
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00268

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1796b25610c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-github.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.data/skills/github/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Before You Start

Read LEARNED.md first. It holds corrections, preferences, and per-repo conventions (branch style, base branch, PR-template path, label taxonomy, the linked Jira review status) discovered in previous sessions. Every rule there overrides defaults in this skill.

Announce skill usage. Say "Using: github skill" at the very start of your response before doing any work.

Preflight: run gh auth status. Note the token's scopes — if it lacks project, never pass gh pr create -p (adding a PR to a GitHub Project needs that scope).

When to Use

  1. Raising a pull request following the repo's convention
  2. Creating a convention-named branch for a Jira ticket
  3. Committing with the repo's ticket-prefixed subject format
  4. Building a PR body from the diff + the repo's PR template
  5. Applying labels / milestone and updating the linked Jira ticket

Do NOT Use

  • GitLab merge requests — use gitlab.
  • Creating or transitioning Jira tickets as the primary task — use jira. This skill only updates the linked ticket at the end of the PR flow.
  • CI/CD workflow files (.github/workflows/), pre-commit, quality gates — use devopsEngineer.
  • Never add file paths / code to the Jira ticket — keep the ticket non-technical; technical detail goes in the PR body.

Access & Convention Detection

Fact Value
Tool gh CLI (authenticated) + git
Owner / repo Auto-resolved from the current repo — never hardcode
Default branch Detect, don't assume
Token scopes From gh auth status — no project ⇒ never gh pr create -p

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 139 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 1796b25610c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,680 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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