github

A set of instructions for using GitHub, a website for hosting code and reviewing changes, through the gh command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Viewing pull-request checks, listing or inspecting CI workflow runs, querying issues, and making advanced GitHub API requests for a specified repository.
Why use it?
It standardizes how an agent checks pull requests, issues, automated checks, workflow runs, and other repository data.

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/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/github
Any agent
npx skills add Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 441 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00044 $0.00441
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 33bf3469f948, 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.

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

This is a copy

97% identical to github — 33 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/github/SKILL.md · 78 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Skill

Use the gh CLI to interact with GitHub. Always specify --repo owner/repo when not in a git directory, or use URLs directly.

Pull Requests

Check CI status on a PR:

gh pr checks 55 --repo owner/repo

List recent workflow runs:

gh run list --repo owner/repo --limit 10

View a run and see which steps failed:

gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo

View logs for failed steps only:

gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo --log-failed

API for Advanced Queries

The gh api command is useful for accessing data not available through other subcommands.

Get PR with specific fields:

gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls/55 --jq '.title, .state, .user.login'

JSON Output

Most commands support --json for structured output. You can use --jq to filter:

gh issue list --repo owner/repo --json number,title --jq '.[] | "\(.number): \(.title)"'
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 · 78 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 33bf3469f948

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop (2,459 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 441 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to github, differing in 33 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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