respond-github

respond-github is a skill for Claude Code from desplega-ai/agent-swarm. It costs 18 tokens per session (360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response helper for GitHub issues and pull requests, or the equivalent threads in GitLab. It reads the discussion and posts a reply through the relevant service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Answering questions, sharing code examples, asking for clarification, or explaining what needs human input in an issue or code-review thread.
Why use it?
It keeps the full conversation in view and avoids replying without understanding the request or earlier comments.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agent-swarm plugin — 30 skills, 11 commands, 5 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Answering questions, sharing code examples, asking for clarification, or explaining what needs human input in an issue or code-review thread.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/respond-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 desplega-ai/agent-swarm --skill respond-github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-swarm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 11 commands, 5 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 360 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 $0.00018 $0.00360
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00144
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d2243abf1caf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

respond-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 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.

plugin/pi-skills/respond-github/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Respond to VCS Issue/PR/MR

Post a response to a GitHub issue/PR or GitLab issue/MR.

Provider detection: Check the URL or remote:

  • If GitHub → use gh issue comment / gh pr comment
  • If GitLab → use glab issue note / glab mr note

Arguments

  • issue-or-pr-number-or-url: Either a number (e.g., 123) or a full URL

Workflow

  1. Parse the input — if given a URL, extract owner, repo, type (issue/PR), and number. If just a number, determine type from current repo context.
  2. Ensure repo is cloned to /workspace/personal/<repo-name> (clone with gh repo clone if needed).
  3. Get full context — read the original description and all comments in the thread.
  4. Understand what's being asked — if this is from @agent-swarm, focus on what was asked in that mention.
  5. Formulate and post your response using gh issue comment / gh pr comment (or glab equivalents).

Decision Framework

  • What specific question or request needs addressing?
  • Do you need to provide code examples?
  • Should you ask clarifying questions?
  • Is this something you can resolve, or do you need human input?

Tips

  • Check if there's already a PR addressing an issue before responding
  • For complex requests, acknowledge receipt and outline your plan
  • If you've completed work, link to the relevant PR or commit
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 · 38 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d2243abf1caf

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respond-github is a skill published in the GitHub repository desplega-ai/agent-swarm (930 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 360 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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