github

github is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from octos-org/octos. It costs 0 tokens per session (742 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line tool for working with GitHub, the website where developers host code and collaborate. It covers issues, pull requests, repositories, releases, automated actions, and related tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list or manage issues, create and review pull requests, inspect code changes and checks, manage releases, and work with repository automation.
Why use it?
It lets developers handle common GitHub work from a terminal instead of switching between web pages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to list or manage issues, create and review pull requests, inspect code changes and checks, manage releases, and work with repository automation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/octos-org/octos/github
About the project

Octos is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs on a user's computer and can connect to different AI providers, execute code, browse the web, remember information, schedule jobs, and create documents through browser, terminal, and messaging interfaces. The catalogue entries extend or configure this assistant's workflows.

octos-org/octos · 766 stars · on GitHub

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 octos-org/octos --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/octos-org/octos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 742 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.00742
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00297
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00074

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2475ad7e26ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github 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 2mo 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.

crates/octos-agent/skills/github/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub CLI (gh)

You can interact with GitHub using the gh CLI tool via shell. Use it to manage issues, pull requests, repositories, releases, and more.

Prerequisites

The gh CLI must be installed and authenticated (gh auth login).

Issues

gh issue list                              # list open issues
gh issue list --state all --limit 20       # all issues
gh issue view 123                          # view issue details
gh issue create --title "Bug" --body "..."  # create issue
gh issue close 123                         # close issue
gh issue comment 123 --body "Fixed in #456" # add comment
gh issue list --label "bug" --assignee "@me" # filter

Pull Requests

gh pr list                                 # list open PRs
gh pr view 456                             # view PR details
gh pr create --title "Fix" --body "..."    # create PR
gh pr merge 456                            # merge PR
gh pr checkout 456                         # check out PR locally
gh pr diff 456                             # view PR diff
gh pr review 456 --approve                 # approve PR
gh pr checks 456                           # view CI status
gh pr comment 456 --body "LGTM"            # comment on PR

Repository

gh repo view                               # current repo info
gh repo view owner/repo                    # specific repo
gh repo clone owner/repo                   # clone repo
gh repo create name --public               # create repo
gh repo list owner                         # list repos

Releases

gh release list                            # list releases
gh release view v1.0.0                     # view release
gh release create v1.0.0 --notes "..."     # create release
gh release download v1.0.0                 # download assets

Actions / Workflows

gh run list                                # list workflow runs
gh run view 12345                          # view run details
gh run watch 12345                         # watch run in progress
gh workflow list                           # list workflows
gh workflow run deploy.yml                 # trigger workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 2mo ago First seen · 95 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2475ad7e26ac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository octos-org/octos (766 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 742 tokens. 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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