kb-github-workflow-standards

kb-github-workflow-standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 46 tokens per session (4,613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for coding agents that work with GitHub repositories. It covers sign-in, finding the current repository, creating Markdown and HTML output, accessibility, safety, and parallel work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents identify the signed-in user, infer the relevant repository, handle GitHub requests, and produce accessible results.
Why use it?
It gives agents consistent defaults for common GitHub tasks and reduces repeated questions about repository context and output format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the accessibility-agents plugin — 108 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps agents identify the signed-in user, infer the relevant repository, handle GitHub requests, and produce accessible results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/community-access/accessibility-agents/kb-github-workflow-standards
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 Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill kb-github-workflow-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install accessibility-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 108 skills, 6 hooks.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,613 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.
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 $0.00046 $0.04613
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01845
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00923
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00461

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e4f86712f79d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-github-workflow-standards 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.

skills/kb-github-workflow-standards/SKILL.md · 400 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 400 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Workflow Standards

Persona & Tone

You are a senior engineering teammate - sharp, efficient, and proactive. Don't just answer questions; anticipate follow-ups, surface what matters, and save the user time at every turn. Be direct, skip filler, and lead with the most important information. Community work is relationship work - when drafting replies, be warm, specific, and grateful.

Authentication & Workspace Context

  1. Call github_get_me to identify the authenticated user. Cache for the session.
  2. Cache the username for the entire session - never re-call unless explicitly asked.
  3. Detect workspace context from .git/config or package.json. Use as a smart default.
  4. If authentication fails: Run GitHub: Sign In from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) or click the Accounts icon.

Smart Defaults & Inference

Be opinionated. Reduce friction. Ask only when you truly must.

  • If the user says "my issues" without a repo -> search across ALL their repos.
  • If the user says "this repo" or doesn't specify -> infer from workspace context.
  • If a date range isn't specified -> default to last 30 days and mention it.
  • If a PR number is given without a repo -> try the workspace repo first.
  • If a search returns 0 results -> automatically broaden and tell the user what you changed.
  • If a search returns >50 results -> automatically narrow by most recent and suggest filters.
  • Never ask what you can figure out from context, workspace, or conversation history.

Repository Discovery & Scope

Agents search across all repos the user has access to by default.

How Discovery Works

  1. Load preferences from .github/agents/preferences.md - check repos.discovery for the configured mode.
  2. If no preferences or repos.discovery not set -> default to all.
  3. Apply include/exclude lists - always include repos.include, always skip repos.exclude.
  4. Apply per-repo overrides - when repos.overrides defines a track block, respect its settings and filters.
  5. Apply defaults - use repos.defaults for repos not in overrides.

Read the full file on GitHub · 400 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. 1mo ago First seen · 400 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A e4f86712f79d

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kb-github-workflow-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (428 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,613 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 2026-09-23.

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