github

A toolset for working with GitHub, a service that hosts code repositories and coordinates changes through pull requests and issues. It covers repository status, code review, continuous-integration checks, and notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list pull requests and issues, view repository status and workflow runs, check notifications, create pull requests, review feedback, fix unresolved review threads, and merge changes.
Why use it?
It brings common GitHub tasks into the coding-agent workflow instead of requiring separate manual checks. It helps identify open work, failing checks, review feedback, and pending notifications.

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/espennilsen/pi/github
Any agent
npx skills add espennilsen/pi --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/espennilsen/pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,096 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00126 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00110

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5dfa9c8f0919, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/check-conflicts.sh, scripts/fetch-threads.sh, scripts/reply-thread.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/github/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub — pi-github Extension

The pi-github extension provides /gh-* commands for common GitHub operations. All commands also work as /github-* variants.

Prerequisites

  • gh CLI installed and authenticated
  • For repo-scoped commands: run from a git repo, or specify the repo

Commands + Agent Tools

The pi-github extension provides /gh-* commands for user-initiated operations and LLM tools for agentic workflows (PR review thread resolution).

Commands

Command What it does
/gh-prs [mine|review-requested] [repo] List open PRs
/gh-issues [mine|label:name] [repo] List open issues
/gh-status [repo] Repo dashboard: PRs, issues, CI, branch PR
/gh-actions [branch] [repo] Recent workflow runs
/gh-notifications Unread GitHub notifications
/gh-pr-create [base] Create PR with LLM-generated summary
/gh-pr-review [number|repo#N|URL] Show PR review feedback
/gh-pr-fix [number|repo#N|URL] Fix unresolved review threads
/gh-pr-merge [number|repo#N|URL] [--squash|--merge|--rebase] Merge PR + full cleanup

PR Thread Tools (for agents fixing review feedback)

These tools use gh CLI under the hood — no API tokens needed. Always prefer these over raw REST/GraphQL calls.

Tool Purpose
github_review_thread_reply Reply to a PR review thread (thread_id, message)
github_resolve_review_thread Mark a review thread as resolved (thread_id) — MANDATORY after each fix
github_post_pr_comment Post a summary comment on a PR (owner, repo, pr_number, body)

Repo Reference Syntax

Commands accept flexible repo/PR references anywhere in args:

Format Example
GitHub URL https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123
Owner/repo#N espennilsen/pi#96
Repo#N (with default owner) pi#96
Owner/repo espennilsen/pi
Plain number 96
No args Auto-detect from current branch

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 113 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 5dfa9c8f0919

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository espennilsen/pi (117 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,096 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 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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