github-app-bot-auth

A guide for authenticating GitHub operations as a GitHub App bot, including setup, token renewal, and scheduled refreshes. A GitHub App is an identity that can act on selected repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up bot access, rotating credentials, refreshing tokens, or troubleshooting automated GitHub operations.
Why use it?
It keeps automated pull requests, pushes, and API calls tied to a separate bot identity and helps prevent short-lived access tokens from expiring.

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/jessinra/lorekeeper/github-app-bot-auth
Any agent
npx skills add Jessinra/Lorekeeper --skill github-app-bot-auth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jessinra/Lorekeeper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,510 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 $0.00031 $0.01510
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00755
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00151

Measured 2d ago against content hash cd2d08ef9933, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-app-bot-auth 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.

.hermes/skills/github/github-app-bot-auth/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub App Bot Auth — jessinra-megumi-dev[bot]

What This Is

The Lorekeeper ecosystem uses a GitHub App (jessinra-megumi-dev) for bot-authorized gh operations — PR creation, code pushes, API calls. The bot identity is separate from Jason's personal account, giving cleaner audit trails on PRs.

Key Facts

Item Value
App ID 3823074
Installation ID 134866394
Account Jessinra (User, selected repos)
Bot display name jessinra-megumi-dev[bot]
Private key ~/.hermes/keys/jessinra-megumi-dev.private-key.pem
Auth file ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml
Token prefix ghs_ (installation token)

Authentication Flow

Private Key (.pem)
    → Sign JWT (RS256, App ID 3823074, 10min expiry)
    → POST /app/installations/134866394/access_tokens
    → Installation token (ghs_..., 1hr expiry)
    → Written to ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml

Token Rotation

Installation tokens expire in 1 hour. A cron job refreshes them automatically:

  • Script: ~/.hermes/scripts/gh-token-refresh.py
  • Schedule: Every 45 minutes (*/45 * * * *)
  • Mode: no_agent=True (pure script, no LLM cost)
  • Delivery: local (silent — no Telegram spam)

The script:

  1. Reads the PEM key from ~/.hermes/keys/jessinra-megumi-dev.private-key.pem
  2. Generates a JWT signed with RS256 (PyJWT preferred, falls back to openssl dgst -sha256 -sign)
  3. Exchanges for an installation token via GitHub API
  4. Writes ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml with the fresh token inline
  5. Pushes the token into gh's keyring via gh auth login --with-token (with GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN unset)
  6. Verifies gh auth token resolves a valid ghs_ token

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 2d ago First seen · 132 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A cd2d08ef9933

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-app-bot-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jessinra/Lorekeeper (4 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,510 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 2026-08-31.

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