GitHub Agentic Workflows is a GitHub CLI extension that lets developers define AI-assisted repository automation in Markdown and run it through GitHub Actions. It is intended for tasks requiring interpretation or reasoning, such as issue triage, pull-request review, CI investigation, documentation maintenance, and dependency analysis. The catalogue entries provide skills and agents for working with these workflows.
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.
npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill gh-auth-isolationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/gh-awWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-auth-isolation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-auth-isolation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-auth-isolation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-auth-isolation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-auth-isolation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Rogue Agent · line 15 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00020 | $0.01543 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00617 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00309 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00154 |
Grade A, and why
gh-auth-isolation 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.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 366 lines differ
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 366 lines differ
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 366 lines differ
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 366 lines differ
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 366 lines differ
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 366 lines differ
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 366 lines differ
- gh-auth-isolation — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Context
Many developers use GitHub through an Enterprise Managed User (EMU) account at work while maintaining a personal GitHub account for open-source contributions. AI agents spawned by Squad inherit the shell's default gh authentication — which is usually the EMU account. This causes failures when agents try to push to personal repos, create PRs on forks, or interact with resources outside the enterprise org.
This skill teaches agents how to detect the active identity, switch contexts safely, and avoid mixing credentials across operations.
Patterns
Detect Current Identity
Before any GitHub operation, check which account is active:
gh auth status
Look for:
Logged in to github.com as USERNAME— the active accountToken scopes: ...— what permissions are available- Multiple accounts will show separate entries
Extract a Specific Account's Token
When you need to operate as a specific user (not the default):
# Get the personal account token (by username)
gh auth token --user personaluser
# Get the EMU account token
gh auth token --user corpalias_enterprise
Use case: Push to a personal fork while the default gh auth is the EMU account.
Push to Personal Repos from EMU Shell
The most common scenario: your shell defaults to the EMU account, but you need to push to a personal GitHub repo.
# 1. Extract the personal token
$token = gh auth token --user personaluser
# 2. Push using token-authenticated HTTPS
git push https://personaluser:[email protected]/personaluser/repo.git branch-name
Why this works: gh auth token --user reads from gh's credential store without switching the active account. The token is used inline for a single operation and never persisted.
Create PRs on Personal Forks
When the default gh context is EMU but you need to create a PR from a personal fork:
# Option 1: Use --repo flag (works if token has access)
gh pr create --repo upstream/repo --head personaluser:branch --title "..." --body "..."
# Option 2: Temporarily set GH_TOKEN for one command
$env:GH_TOKEN = $(gh auth token --user personaluser)
gh pr create --repo upstream/repo --head personaluser:branch --title "..."
Remove-Item Env:\GH_TOKEN
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 184 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 813f70bbad2b
gh-auth-isolation is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,421 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,543 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 2026-09-03.
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c-github
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watch-pr
Watch a GitHub pull request for CI status, reviews, comments, merge conflicts, and terminal states using the gh-watch extension. Use when the user wants to monitor a PR, wait for CI, or track PR progress.
watch-tag
Watch a GitHub repository for new tags using the gh-watch extension. Use when the user wants to be notified when a tag is created, when a release is cut, or when a tag that includes a specific commit appears (e.g. "tell me when my merge ships in a release").
watch-branch
Watch a GitHub branch for new commits using the gh-watch extension. Use when the user wants to be notified when new commits are pushed to a branch, monitor main for merges, or track branch activity.
ci-cd
CI/CD pipelines for GitHub Actions and Docker-based deployments — lint, test, build, push, deploy stages; environment secrets; branch-gated workflows; health-check rollbacks; and PM2/systemd service restarts.
github
GitHub operations via gh CLI: issues, PRs, CI runs, code review, API queries.