github-multi-account

github-multi-account is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from github/gh-aw. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup procedure for using separate GitHub CLI shortcuts with multiple GitHub accounts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It detects logged-in accounts, asks how to label them, and creates PowerShell aliases for switching between them.
Why use it?
It helps prevent commands from being run under the wrong personal or work account.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

About the project

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.

github/gh-aw · 5,104 stars · on GitHub · gh.io

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,038 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 5.1 $0.00043 $0.01038
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00104

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8cdd19d1b4f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-multi-account 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.squad/templates/skills/github-multi-account/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Multi-Account — AI-Driven Setup

When to Activate

When the user has multiple GitHub accounts (check with gh auth status). If you see 2+ accounts listed, this skill applies.

What to Do (as the AI agent)

Step 1: Detect accounts

Run: gh auth status Look for multiple accounts. Note which usernames are listed.

Step 2: Ask the user

Ask: "I see you have multiple GitHub accounts: {list them}. Which one is your personal account and which is your work/EMU account?"

Step 3: Run the setup automatically

Once the user confirms, do ALL of this for them:

# 1. Define the functions
$personal = "THEIR_PERSONAL_USERNAME"
$work = "THEIR_WORK_USERNAME"

# 2. Add to PowerShell profile
$profilePath = $PROFILE.CurrentUserAllHosts
if (!(Test-Path $profilePath)) { New-Item -Path $profilePath -Force | Out-Null }
$existing = Get-Content $profilePath -Raw -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($existing -notmatch "gh-personal") {
    $block = @"

# === GitHub Multi-Account Aliases ===
function gh-personal { gh auth switch --user $personal 2>`$null | Out-Null; gh @args }
function gh-work { gh auth switch --user $work 2>`$null | Out-Null; gh @args }
Set-Alias ghp gh-personal
Set-Alias ghw gh-work
"@
    Add-Content -Path $profilePath -Value $block
}

# 3. Create CMD wrappers
$binDir = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE ".squad\bin"
if (!(Test-Path $binDir)) { New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $binDir -Force | Out-Null }
"@echo off`ngh auth switch --user $personal >nul 2>&1`ngh %*" | Out-File "$binDir\ghp.cmd" -Encoding ascii
"@echo off`ngh auth switch --user $work >nul 2>&1`ngh %*" | Out-File "$binDir\ghw.cmd" -Encoding ascii

# 4. Add to PATH
$userPath = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "User")
if ($userPath -notmatch [regex]::Escape($binDir)) {
    [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "$binDir;$userPath", "User")
    $env:PATH = "$binDir;$env:PATH"
}

# 5. Load in current session
function gh-personal { gh auth switch --user $personal 2>$null | Out-Null; gh @args }
function gh-work { gh auth switch --user $work 2>$null | Out-Null; gh @args }
Set-Alias ghp gh-personal
Set-Alias ghw gh-work

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 2d ago First seen · 96 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8cdd19d1b4f4

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github-multi-account is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,104 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,038 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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