gh-cli

gh-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,841 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line tool for working with GitHub, the code-hosting service, from a terminal. It covers repositories, issues, pull requests, API requests, and workflow runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating, viewing, checking, editing, reviewing, merging, and commenting on pull requests, as well as managing issues, repositories, and CI workflow runs.
Why use it?
It lets developers handle common GitHub tasks without switching between a browser and the terminal.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Creating, viewing, checking, editing, reviewing, merging, and commenting on pull requests, as well as managing issues, repositories, and CI workflow runs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/gh-cli
About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

benchflow-ai/skillsbench · 1,855 stars · on GitHub · skillsbench.ai

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 benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill gh-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,841 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.01841
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00736
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00184

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 94c4d99aa20c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-cli 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • skill-021 — 95% identical, 3 lines differ
tasks-extra/gh-repo-analytics/environment/skills/gh-cli/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub CLI (gh)

Work seamlessly with GitHub from the command line.

Usage

gh <command> <subcommand> [flags]

Core Commands

  issue:      Manage issues
  pr:         Manage pull requests
  repo:       Create, clone, fork, and view repositories
  api:        Make an authenticated GitHub API request
  run:        View details about workflow runs

Use gh <command> --help for more information about a command.


gh pr

Work with GitHub pull requests.

USAGE
  gh pr <command> [flags]

CORE COMMANDS
  checkout:   Check out a pull request in git
  checks:     Show CI status for a single pull request
  close:      Close a pull request
  comment:    Create a new pr comment
  create:     Create a pull request
  diff:       View changes in a pull request
  edit:       Edit a pull request
  list:       List and filter pull requests in this repository
  merge:      Merge a pull request
  ready:      Mark a pull request as ready for review
  reopen:     Reopen a pull request
  review:     Add a review to a pull request
  status:     Show status of relevant pull requests
  view:       View a pull request

FLAGS
  -R, --repo [HOST/]OWNER/REPO   Select another repository using the [HOST/]OWNER/REPO format

INHERITED FLAGS
  --help   Show help for command

ARGUMENTS
  A pull request can be supplied as argument in any of the following formats:
  - by number, e.g. "123";
  - by URL, e.g. "https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/pull/123"; or
  - by the name of its head branch, e.g. "patch-1" or "OWNER:patch-1".

EXAMPLES
  $ gh pr checkout 353
  $ gh pr create --fill
  $ gh pr view --web

LEARN MORE
  Use 'gh <command> <subcommand> --help' for more information about a command.
  Read the manual at https://cli.github.com/manual

gh issue

Work with GitHub issues.

USAGE
  gh issue <command> [flags]

CORE COMMANDS
  close:      Close issue
  comment:    Create a new issue comment
  create:     Create a new issue
  delete:     Delete issue
  edit:       Edit an issue
  list:       List and filter issues in this repository
  reopen:     Reopen issue
  status:     Show status of relevant issues
  transfer:   Transfer issue to another repository
  view:       View an issue

FLAGS
  -R, --repo [HOST/]OWNER/REPO   Select another repository using the [HOST/]OWNER/REPO format

INHERITED FLAGS
  --help   Show help for command

ARGUMENTS
  An issue can be supplied as argument in any of the following formats:
  - by number, e.g. "123"; or
  - by URL, e.g. "https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/issues/123".

EXAMPLES
  $ gh issue list
  $ gh issue create --label bug
  $ gh issue view --web

LEARN MORE
  Use 'gh <command> <subcommand> --help' for more information about a command.
  Read the manual at https://cli.github.com/manual

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 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. 1mo ago First seen · 278 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 94c4d99aa20c

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gh-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,855 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,841 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.