github

github is a skill for Codex from hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (589 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of github, Apache-2.0.

A command-line skill for working with GitHub, a service for hosting code and coordinating software projects. It covers issues, pull requests, automated workflow runs, and GitHub's API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect issues and pull requests, check continuous-integration results, read failed workflow logs, and query GitHub data.
Why use it?
It removes the need to switch between web pages and command-line tools when checking project work or investigating failed automation.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to inspect issues and pull requests, check continuous-integration results, read failed workflow logs, and query GitHub data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/github
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 hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 589 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.00589
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00059

Measured 6d ago against content hash bb135d6ee941, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github 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 6d 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

This is a copy

94% identical to github — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/global_config/github/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Skill

Use the gh CLI to interact with GitHub. Always specify --repo owner/repo when not in a git directory, or use URLs directly.

When to Use

  • When the user asks about GitHub issues, pull requests, workflow runs, or CI failures.
  • When you need gh issue, gh pr, gh run, or gh api from the command line.

Pull Requests

Check CI status on a PR:

gh pr checks 55 --repo owner/repo

List recent workflow runs:

gh run list --repo owner/repo --limit 10

View a run and see which steps failed:

gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo

View logs for failed steps only:

gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo --log-failed

Debugging a CI Failure

Follow this sequence to investigate a failing CI run:

  1. Check PR status — identify which checks are failing:
    gh pr checks 55 --repo owner/repo
    
  2. List recent runs — find the relevant run ID:
    gh run list --repo owner/repo --limit 10
    
  3. View the failed run — see which jobs and steps failed:
    gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo
    
  4. Fetch failure logs — get the detailed output for failed steps:
    gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo --log-failed
    

API for Advanced Queries

The gh api command is useful for accessing data not available through other subcommands.

Get PR with specific fields:

gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls/55 --jq '.title, .state, .user.login'

JSON Output

Most commands support --json for structured output. You can use --jq to filter:

gh issue list --repo owner/repo --json number,title --jq '.[] | "\(.number): \(.title)"'

Limitations

  • Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
  • Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
  • Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

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 · 82 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A bb135d6ee941

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github is a skill published in the GitHub repository hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 589 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to github, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.