github-cli

A command wrapper for the GitHub command-line tool, which lets developers manage GitHub repositories from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
For viewing pull requests and their checks, listing or managing issues, merging pull requests, and opening repository details.
Why use it?
It gathers common pull-request, issue, and repository actions under one agent command and checks that the required tool is installed and signed in.

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/gantisstorm/essentials-claude-code/github-cli
Any agent
npx skills add GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code --skill github-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 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 $0.00019 $0.00541
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash f3570054efac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-cli 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.

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.

essentials/skills/github-cli/SKILL.md · 134 lines

What it actually says

GitHub CLI helper skill for common gh operations. Requires gh CLI installed and authenticated.

Note: For creating/updating PR descriptions, use /mr-description-creator instead.

Actions

PR Operations

View PR status:

/github-cli pr status

View PR checks:

/github-cli pr checks

Merge PR:

/github-cli pr merge

View PR in browser:

/github-cli pr view --web

List PRs:

/github-cli pr list

Issue Operations

List issues:

/github-cli issue list

Create issue:

/github-cli issue create

View issue:

/github-cli issue view <number>

Repository Operations

View repo:

/github-cli repo view

Instructions

Step 1: Validate Environment

# Check gh is installed
gh --version

# Check gh is authenticated
gh auth status

If not installed, report: "Install gh CLI: https://cli.github.com" If not authenticated, report: "Run: gh auth login"

Step 2: Parse and Execute

Parse $ARGUMENTS and pass directly to gh:

gh $ARGUMENTS

Step 3: Report Result

Show gh output directly to user.

Examples

# View PR status
/github-cli pr status

# View PR checks (CI status)
/github-cli pr checks

# Merge current PR
/github-cli pr merge

# List open PRs
/github-cli pr list

# View PR in browser
/github-cli pr view --web

# List issues
/github-cli issue list

# Create issue interactively
/github-cli issue create

# View repo info
/github-cli repo view

# API calls
/github-cli api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls

# Any gh command works
/github-cli release list
/github-cli workflow list

Error Handling

Scenario Action
gh not installed "Install gh: https://cli.github.com"
Not authenticated "Run: gh auth login"
gh command fails Show gh error output
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 · 134 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A f3570054efac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code (91 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 541 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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