github-cli-health-check

A read-only diagnostic checklist for GitHub CLI, called gh, the terminal tool for working with GitHub repositories and its API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify gh, check authentication, list repositories, and inspect the remaining API request limit.
Why use it?
It helps identify missing installation, sign-in, repository-access, or API-rate-limit problems without changing GitHub data.

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/msapps-mobile/claude-plugins/github-cli-health-check
Any agent
npx skills add MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins --skill github-cli-health-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,949 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 $0.00151 $0.01949
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00195

Measured 2d ago against content hash 90a8bcdb7b97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-cli-health-check 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.

plugins/github-cli-health-check/skills/github-cli-health-check/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill runs on-demand (no automatic schedule). Execute every step autonomously regardless — do not ask questions, and always produce the markdown report even if checks fail. Read-only only: never mutate GitHub state, never echo the raw token.

Two live paths — pick at runtime

This skill runs in one of three contexts. Detect which you're in and use the matching execution path. Both paths are manual-only and redundant — run whichever is convenient; run both if the first looks off.

Context Execution path How to detect
Routine (Claude Code cloud, on-demand) Native gh in the cloud Running from a Routine session; gh on PATH; cloud-provided GITHUB_TOKEN.
Cowork task (Mac, on-demand) Desktop Commander → Mac gh mcp__Desktop_Commander__start_process is available.
Interactive local session Whichever gh works User is present; try VM Bash first, fall back to DC if proxy blocks it.

Routines live under plugins/github-cli-health-check/routines/ in this repo — see routines/README.md for registration. The Routine has its own prompt file (routines/prompt.md); this SKILL.md is what the Cowork scheduled task and interactive sessions load.

Known infrastructure block (tracked upstream)

The Cowork sandbox proxy blocks api.github.com (and raw.githubusercontent.com, release-assets.githubusercontent.com, codeload.github.com). Signature: 403 X-Proxy-Error: blocked-by-allowlist. Project-level sandbox.network.allowedDomains has no effect; sudo is broken; there is no VM-side install that makes gh work in Cowork today.

But git itself works from the VM. Plain git over HTTPS to github.com is on the allowlist, so git clone, git fetch, git pull, and git push all succeed directly from the Cowork VM. Only api.github.com (REST + GraphQL) is blocked. Practical rule:

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 2d ago First seen · 177 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 90a8bcdb7b97

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-cli-health-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 1,949 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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