github-auth

github-auth is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from huidge/hermes-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,964 once invoked), scanned F, original, no licence file.

A setup guide for letting a coding agent authenticate with GitHub, a service for hosting and collaborating on code. It covers Git, GitHub's gh command-line tool, HTTPS tokens, SSH keys, and credential helpers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up GitHub access over HTTPS or SSH and checking gh authentication.
Why use it?
It helps choose and configure a way for the agent to access GitHub without guessing which authentication method is available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for setting up GitHub access over HTTPS or SSH and checking gh authentication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/huidge/hermes-skills/github-auth
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for github-auth

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huidge/hermes-skills/github-auth.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/huidge/hermes-skills/github-auth)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/huidge/hermes-skills/github-auth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huidge/hermes-skills/github-auth.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,964 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan F 4 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00048 $0.01964
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00982
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00196

Measured 6d ago against content hash cfa444cb6622, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade F, and why

github-auth scanned grade F with 4 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/gh-env.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.

Enumerates the file system for secretshighData exfiltration

Searching home directories for .env, .ssh, .aws or credential files is reconnaissance for credential theft.

ls -la ~/.ssh/id_*.pub 2>/dev/null || echo "No SSH keys found"

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

3. If `gh` is not installed → use "git-only" method below (no sudo needed)

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]" -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -N ""

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

When `gh` is not available, you can still access the full GitHub API using `curl` with a personal access token. This is how the other GitHub skills implement their fallbacks.
github/github-auth/SKILL.md · 247 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 247 lines · 48 tokens per session scan F cfa444cb6622

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github-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository huidge/hermes-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,964 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it F with 4 findings (enumerates the file system for secrets, asks for root, reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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