github-labels-query

A skill for listing labels in a GitHub repository, with pagination and optional name filtering. Labels are tags used to classify issues and pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query an owner’s repository labels, choose the number of results per page, move between pages, or filter names such as labels containing “bug”.
Why use it?
It avoids manually scanning a long label list and lets you request only a chosen page or labels containing specific text.

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/github/gh-aw/github-labels-query
Any agent
npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill github-labels-query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/gh-aw

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 528 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 $0.00528
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00053

Measured yesterday against content hash 64aa95a14fdf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-labels-query 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (query-labels.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.

.github/skills/github-labels-query/SKILL.md · 81 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Labels Query Skill

List GitHub repository labels with efficient pagination using the --per-page flag.

Usage

Use this script to list labels from any repository with controlled page sizes.

Basic Usage

./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw
# Returns 10 labels (default per_page=10)

Pagination

# Get the first label only
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --per-page 1

# Get 25 labels starting from page 2
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --per-page 25 --page 2

Filtering by name

# Only labels whose name contains "bug" (case-insensitive)
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --name-filter bug

When --name-filter is set, all labels are fetched and filtered, then --per-page/--page are applied to the filtered results.

Parameters

Parameter Required Default Description
--owner Yes - Repository owner (username or organization)
--repo Yes - Repository name
--per-page No 10 Results per page (1–100)
--page No 1 Page number
--name-filter No - Case-insensitive substring filter on the label name

Output

Returns JSON with the following fields:

{
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 12345,
      "node_id": "LA_...",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "color": "d73a4a",
      "default": true,
      "description": "Something isn't working"
    }
  ],
  "item_count": 10,
  "per_page": 10,
  "page": 1
}

Source

Calls the GitHub REST API: GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels?per_page={n}&page={n}

When --name-filter is used, the script pages through all labels (--paginate) before filtering and slicing locally.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 81 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 64aa95a14fdf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-labels-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,050 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 528 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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