github

github is a skill for Claude Code from apideck-libraries/api-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,996 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An integration for connecting a coding agent to GitHub through Apideck, a service that provides one interface for several work-tracking systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading, creating, updating, and commenting on GitHub tickets and issues.
Why use it?
It avoids writing separate connection, authentication, paging, and retry code for GitHub. The connector is in beta, so some operations may be incomplete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the apideck plugin — 181 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Reading, creating, updating, and commenting on GitHub tickets and issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/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.

Any agent
npx skills add apideck-libraries/api-skills --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apideck-libraries/api-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apideck, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 181 skills, 3 commands.

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 github

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/github/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/github)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/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/skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apideck-libraries/api-skills/github.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,996 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00063 $0.01996
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00798
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured 15d ago against content hash 85659e997115, 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 1 finding 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 15d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl 'https://unify.apideck.com/proxy' \
providers/claude/plugin/skills/github/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub (via Apideck)

Access GitHub through Apideck's Issue Tracking unified API — one of 6 Issue Tracking connectors that share the same method surface. Code you write here ports to Jira, GitLab, Linear and 2 other Issue Tracking connectors by changing a single serviceId string. Apideck handles auth, pagination, rate limiting, and retries so you don't write per-tenant GitHub plumbing.

Beta connector. GitHub is currently in beta on Apideck. Expect partial resource coverage and occasional mapping gaps. Always verify coverage (see below) and fall back to the Proxy API for unsupported operations.

Quick facts

At a glance

  • Implementation difficulty: straightforward — Self-Service GitHub App + Free Account, No Partnership
  • Vendor partnership required: no — A GitHub App can be registered under any personal account or organisation you own.
  • Apideck-managed credentials: not available — Each customer registers their own GitHub App and supplies its Client ID and Secret.
  • Account type required: A GitHub organisation; one organisation per connection.
  • Consumer access level: Organisation owner, since only owners can install the GitHub App on the organisation.
  • Sandbox: available (signup) — Test with a free GitHub account.
  • Rate limits: 5,000 requests per hour per user for a GitHub App acting on a user's behalf; 15,000 per hour when the app is owned by a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organisation.
  • Authentication: Authorization Code flow; access follows the GitHub App's permissions, not OAuth scopes.
  • Webhooks: Native - issue events (opened, edited, closed, deleted and other issue changes).

Facts synced from Apideck's connector metadata API — GET /connector/connectors/github (overview field) is the live, authoritative version.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 15d ago Changed · +17 lines 85659e997115
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 154 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 24b99f9c7353

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository apideck-libraries/api-skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,996 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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