github-content

github-content is a skill for Claude Code from krmcbride/claude-plugins. It costs 64 tokens per session (798 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for retrieving complete GitHub information through the gh command-line tool, including issues, pull requests, repository files, and code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect issues and pull requests, read review discussions, view changed files, browse repositories, and search code.
Why use it?
It provides comments, reviews, diffs, and other details that GitHub’s web pages may load incompletely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the essentials plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect issues and pull requests, read review discussions, view changed files, browse repositories, and search code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krmcbride/claude-plugins/github-content
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 krmcbride/claude-plugins --skill github-content
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krmcbride/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install essentials, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent.

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-content

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/krmcbride/claude-plugins/github-content/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/krmcbride/claude-plugins/github-content)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/krmcbride/claude-plugins/github-content"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/krmcbride/claude-plugins/github-content/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for github-content

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/krmcbride/claude-plugins/github-content"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/krmcbride/claude-plugins/github-content.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 798 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 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 $0.00064 $0.00798
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00319
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00080

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 53fc2c6cad49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-content 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 1mo 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.

essentials/skills/github-content/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Content Fetching

When to activate:

  • User pastes a GitHub URL (issue, PR, repo, or source file)
  • User asks about PR comments, reviews, or discussions
  • User wants to browse or search code in a GitHub repository
  • User references a GitHub issue or PR by number and repo

Why use gh CLI instead of web fetching:

GitHub's web interface relies heavily on JavaScript to load comments, reviews, and discussions. Web fetching often retrieves only partial content. The gh CLI accesses the API directly and returns complete data.

Issues

View an issue with all comments:

gh issue view <number> --repo owner/repo --comments

Pull Requests

View a PR with comments and review status:

gh pr view <number> --repo owner/repo --comments

View the diff for a PR:

gh pr diff <number> --repo owner/repo

View PR review comments (inline code comments):

gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls/<number>/comments

List files changed in a PR:

gh pr view <number> --repo owner/repo --json files --jq '.files[].path'

Repository Browsing

List contents of a directory (defaults to root):

gh api repos/owner/repo/contents/path/to/dir

View a specific file's contents:

gh api repos/owner/repo/contents/path/to/file --jq '.content' | base64 -d

Get the full repository tree (all files):

gh api repos/owner/repo/git/trees/main?recursive=1 --jq '.tree[] | select(.type=="blob") | .path'

Replace main with the appropriate branch name if needed.

Search for code within a specific repository:

gh search code "search query" --repo owner/repo

Search with language filter:

gh search code "search query" --repo owner/repo --language python

Search with path filter:

gh search code "search query" --repo owner/repo --path "src/"

View search results with more context:

gh search code "search query" --repo owner/repo --json path,repository,textMatches

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 1mo ago First seen · 119 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 53fc2c6cad49

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github-content is a skill published in the GitHub repository krmcbride/claude-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 798 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.