github

A guide and command reference for managing GitHub, a service for hosting code and collaborating on software projects, through the gh command-line tool. It covers issues, pull requests, code reviews, workflows, and repository data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect pull requests and CI checks, read workflow logs, create or comment on issues, manage pull requests, and query GitHub repositories.
Why use it?
It lets developers check and manage common GitHub work from a terminal. It also clarifies when local Git commands or other tools are more appropriate.

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/djblack1209-coder/openclaw-bot/github
Any agent
npx skills add djblack1209-coder/OpenClaw-Bot --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/djblack1209-coder/OpenClaw-Bot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,139 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% 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 $0.00101 $0.01139
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00114

Measured yesterday against content hash 40c016d16a14, 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 yesterday.

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

88% identical to github — 2 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.

packages/openclaw-npm/skills/github/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Skill

Use the gh CLI to interact with GitHub repositories, issues, PRs, and CI.

When to Use

USE this skill when:

  • Checking PR status, reviews, or merge readiness
  • Viewing CI/workflow run status and logs
  • Creating, closing, or commenting on issues
  • Creating or merging pull requests
  • Querying GitHub API for repository data
  • Listing repos, releases, or collaborators

When NOT to Use

DON'T use this skill when:

  • Local git operations (commit, push, pull, branch) → use git directly
  • Non-GitHub repos (GitLab, Bitbucket, self-hosted) → different CLIs
  • Cloning repositories → use git clone
  • Reviewing actual code changes → use coding-agent skill
  • Complex multi-file diffs → use coding-agent or read files directly

Setup

# Authenticate (one-time)
gh auth login

# Verify
gh auth status

Common Commands

Pull Requests

# List PRs
gh pr list --repo owner/repo

# Check CI status
gh pr checks 55 --repo owner/repo

# View PR details
gh pr view 55 --repo owner/repo

# Create PR
gh pr create --title "feat: add feature" --body "Description"

# Merge PR
gh pr merge 55 --squash --repo owner/repo

Issues

# List issues
gh issue list --repo owner/repo --state open

# Create issue
gh issue create --title "Bug: something broken" --body "Details..."

# Close issue
gh issue close 42 --repo owner/repo

CI/Workflow Runs

# List recent runs
gh run list --repo owner/repo --limit 10

# View specific run
gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo

# View failed step logs only
gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo --log-failed

# Re-run failed jobs
gh run rerun <run-id> --failed --repo owner/repo

API Queries

# Get PR with specific fields
gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls/55 --jq '.title, .state, .user.login'

# List all labels
gh api repos/owner/repo/labels --jq '.[].name'

# Get repo stats
gh api repos/owner/repo --jq '{stars: .stargazers_count, forks: .forks_count}'

JSON Output

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. yesterday First seen · 164 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 40c016d16a14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository djblack1209-coder/OpenClaw-Bot (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,139 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to github, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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