github-reply-draft

A writing guide for drafting replies to GitHub pull-request review comments. GitHub pull requests are proposed code changes that reviewers discuss in comment threads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write short, thread-specific replies that name the change, mention deliberate trade-offs when needed, and include the required attribution footer.
Why use it?
It prevents replies from becoming too long, referring to code that no longer exists, combining separate discussions, or claiming that a reviewer has accepted a fix.

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/lee-w/maigo/github-reply-draft
Any agent
npx skills add Lee-W/maigo --skill github-reply-draft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lee-W/maigo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,320 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 $0.00047 $0.01320
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 2d ago against content hash 27a5b7181334, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-reply-draft 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.

skills/github-reply-draft/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Reply Draft

Owner: — (orchestrator/agent drafting GitHub replies) Consumers: /maigo:address-comments (per-thread replies at Finale), /maigo:review (reply drafts at criti gate)

Overview

Drafting GitHub PR replies badly is a recurring source of reviewer friction. Common failure modes: long preambles, referencing mid-iteration helpers that were deleted before merge, merging all threads into one PR-level comment, or overclaiming that a thread is "done ✅" when the reviewer has not yet confirmed acceptance.

This skill captures the six conventions that prevent those failures.

Convention 1 — Default terse

The opening sentence names what changed. If there is a deliberate trade-off, one more sentence names it and signals the user can ask for more detail. Cut: preamble, restating the reviewer's comment, hedging phrases ("hopefully this addresses...", "I believe this should..."), verification narrative ("I re-ran the comparison and got the same result"), the process of what was done, and anything the reviewer can already see from the diff.

The user will ask for more, not less — default short.

Word-level conventions:

  • Prefer an em-dash over , so for casual flow (reports should stay in sync from now on, not , so reports should stay in sync).
  • No comma after a sentence-starting Also before a verb (Also updated the file, not Also, updated the file).
  • Avoid vague abstract nouns ("window", "a while", "soon", "some buffer") — swap each for the concrete, quantifiable mechanism behind it (a number of seconds, a count, an explicit configurable flag). A vague noun reads as hand-waving; a measurable mechanism is something a reviewer can actually evaluate and implement.

Good:

validate_email now raises ValueError on empty input instead of propagating IndexError.

Bad:

Thank you for catching this. I've reviewed your comment about the empty-input case on validate_email and I believe I've addressed the concern by adding...

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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 · 146 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 27a5b7181334

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-reply-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lee-W/maigo (14 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,320 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 2026-08-30.

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