add-github

Add GitHub Channel

Adds GitHub support via the Chat SDK bridge. The agent participates in PR and issue comment threads. NanoClaw doesn't ship channels in trunk — this skill copies the GitHub adapter in from the channels branch.

The mechanical steps under Apply carry nc: directive fences: an agent reads the prose and applies them, and a parser can apply them deterministically from the same document. Every directive is idempotent, so the whole skill is safe to re-run; anything a parser can't apply falls back to the prose beside it.

Prerequisites

You need a dedicated GitHub bot account (not your personal account). The adapter uses this account to post replies and filters out its own messages to avoid loops. Create a free GitHub account for your bot (e.g. my-org-bot), then invite it as a collaborator with write access to the repos you want monitored.

Apply

1. Copy the adapter

Fetch the channels branch and copy the GitHub adapter into src/channels/ (overwrite — the branch is canonical):

src/channels/github.ts
src/channels/github-registration.test.ts

2. Register the adapter

Append the self-registration import to the channel barrel (skipped if the line is already present). This one line is the skill's only reach-in into core:

import './github.js';

3. Install the adapter package

Pinned to an exact version — the supply-chain policy rejects ranges and latest:

@chat-adapter/[email protected]

4. Build and validate

The build guards the typed createChatSdkBridge(...) core call and proves the dependency is installed (the adapter import throws if @chat-adapter/github isn't present):

pnpm run build

pnpm exec vitest run src/channels/github-registration.test.ts

github-registration.test.ts imports the real channel barrel and asserts the registry contains github. It goes red if the import line is deleted or drifts, if the barrel fails to evaluate, or if @chat-adapter/github isn't installed (the import throws) — so it also covers the dependency from step 3.