A reference for GitHub CLI, a command-line tool for working with repositories, issues, pull requests, Actions, projects, releases, and other GitHub features.

Use it to authenticate, inspect repositories, manage issues and pull requests, run Actions, create releases, and work with projects or codespaces.

It lets developers perform common GitHub tasks from a terminal and document repeatable command-line workflows.

gh-cli — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by boshi-xixixi

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 boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill --skill gh-cli

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 10,658 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan D 3 findings. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00045	$0.10658
Opus 5	$0.00023	$0.05329
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.02132
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.01066

Measured 4d ago against content hash 18e53a9f4c15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

gh-cli scanned grade D with 3 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 4d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

gh repo deploy-key add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub \

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

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.trae/Skills/.agents/skills/gh-cli/SKILL.md · 2,188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 2,188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub CLI (gh)

Comprehensive reference for GitHub CLI (gh) - work seamlessly with GitHub from the command line.

Version: 2.85.0 (current as of January 2026)

Prerequisites

Installation

# macOS
brew install gh

# Linux
curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh

# Windows
winget install --id GitHub.cli

# Verify installation
gh --version

Authentication

# Interactive login (default: github.com)
gh auth login

# Login with specific hostname
gh auth login --hostname enterprise.internal

# Login with token
gh auth login --with-token < mytoken.txt

# Check authentication status
gh auth status

# Switch accounts
gh auth switch --hostname github.com --user username

# Logout
gh auth logout --hostname github.com --user username

Setup Git Integration

# Configure git to use gh as credential helper
gh auth setup-git

# View active token
gh auth token

# Refresh authentication scopes
gh auth refresh --scopes write:org,read:public_key

CLI Structure

gh                          # Root command
├── auth                    # Authentication
│   ├── login
│   ├── logout
│   ├── refresh
│   ├── setup-git
│   ├── status
│   ├── switch
│   └── token
├── browse                  # Open in browser
├── codespace               # GitHub Codespaces
│   ├── code
│   ├── cp
│   ├── create
│   ├── delete
│   ├── edit
│   ├── jupyter
│   ├── list
│   ├── logs
│   ├── ports
│   ├── rebuild
│   ├── ssh
│   ├── stop
│   └── view
├── gist                    # Gists
│   ├── clone
│   ├── create
│   ├── delete
│   ├── edit
│   ├── list
│   ├── rename
│   └── view
├── issue                   # Issues
│   ├── create
│   ├── list
│   ├── status
│   ├── close
│   ├── comment
│   ├── delete
│   ├── develop
│   ├── edit
│   ├── lock
│   ├── pin
│   ├── reopen
│   ├── transfer
│   ├── unlock
│   └── view
├── org                     # Organizations
│   └── list
├── pr                      # Pull Requests
│   ├── create
│   ├── list
│   ├── status
│   ├── checkout
│   ├── checks
│   ├── close
│   ├── comment
│   ├── diff
│   ├── edit
│   ├── lock
│   ├── merge
│   ├── ready
│   ├── reopen
│   ├── revert
│   ├── review
│   ├── unlock
│   ├── update-branch
│   └── view
├── project                 # Projects
│   ├── close
│   ├── copy
│   ├── create
│   ├── delete
│   ├── edit
│   ├── field-create
│   ├── field-delete
│   ├── field-list
│   ├── item-add
│   ├── item-archive
│   ├── item-create
│   ├── item-delete
│   ├── item-edit
│   ├── item-list
│   ├── link
│   ├── list
│   ├── mark-template
│   ├── unlink
│   └── view
├── release                 # Releases
│   ├── create
│   ├── list
│   ├── delete
│   ├── delete-asset
│   ├── download
│   ├── edit
│   ├── upload
│   ├── verify
│   ├── verify-asset
│   └── view
├── repo                    # Repositories
│   ├── create
│   ├── list
│   ├── archive
│   ├── autolink
│   ├── clone
│   ├── delete
│   ├── deploy-key
│   ├── edit
│   ├── fork
│   ├── gitignore
│   ├── license
│   ├── rename
│   ├── set-default
│   ├── sync
│   ├── unarchive
│   └── view
├── cache                   # Actions caches
│   ├── delete
│   └── list
├── run                     # Workflow runs
│   ├── cancel
│   ├── delete
│   ├── download
│   ├── list
│   ├── rerun
│   ├── view
│   └── watch
├── workflow                # Workflows
│   ├── disable
│   ├── enable
│   ├── list
│   ├── run
│   └── view
├── agent-task              # Agent tasks
├── alias                   # Command aliases
│   ├── delete
│   ├── import
│   ├── list
│   └── set
├── api                     # API requests
├── attestation             # Artifact attestations
│   ├── download
│   ├── trusted-root
│   └── verify
├── completion              # Shell completion
├── config                  # Configuration
│   ├── clear-cache
│   ├── get
│   ├── list
│   └── set
├── extension               # Extensions
│   ├── browse
│   ├── create
│   ├── exec
│   ├── install
│   ├── list
│   ├── remove
│   ├── search
│   └── upgrade
├── gpg-key                 # GPG keys
│   ├── add
│   ├── delete
│   └── list
├── label                   # Labels
│   ├── clone
│   ├── create
│   ├── delete
│   ├── edit
│   └── list
├── preview                 # Preview features
├── ruleset                 # Rulesets
│   ├── check
│   ├── list
│   └── view
├── search                  # Search
│   ├── code
│   ├── commits
│   ├── issues
│   ├── prs
│   └── repos
├── secret                  # Secrets
│   ├── delete
│   ├── list
│   └── set
├── ssh-key                 # SSH keys
│   ├── add
│   ├── delete
│   └── list
├── status                  # Status overview
└── variable                # Variables
    ├── delete
    ├── get
    ├── list
    └── set

Read the full file on GitHub · 2,188 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.

4d ago First seen · 2,188 lines · 45 tokens per session scan D 18e53a9f4c15

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gh-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill (261 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 10,658 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, 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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