A guide for managing GitHub projects through the gh command-line tool. GitHub is a service for hosting code, reviewing changes, tracking work, and running automated workflows.

Use it to manage issues, pull requests, workflows, repositories, branches, project checks, and related comments or reviews.

It provides the setup, commands, and repository rules needed to inspect or change GitHub work from an agent.

github — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by odyssey4me/agent-skills

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 odyssey4me/agent-skills --skill github

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/odyssey4me/agent-skills

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/odyssey4me/agent-skills/github/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/odyssey4me/agent-skills/github)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/odyssey4me/agent-skills/github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/odyssey4me/agent-skills/github/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/odyssey4me/agent-skills/github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/odyssey4me/agent-skills/github.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,135 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Rogue Agent · line 222
Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00051	$0.02135
Opus 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00854
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00427
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00214

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d2c788a0e5ed, 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/github.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Skill

This skill provides GitHub integration using the official gh CLI tool. A Python wrapper script produces markdown-formatted output for read/view operations. Action commands (create, merge, close, comment) should use gh directly.

Network access

GitHub commands (gh and the Python wrapper) require outbound HTTPS to GitHub API and authentication endpoints, or the configured GitHub Enterprise host. Git fetch/push requires HTTPS or SSH to the repository host. Remote operations require outbound network access. If the agent environment restricts it, obtain access through that environment's approval or network controls before the first remote command, reusing authorization already granted. Local help and file processing do not need network access. Skill instructions do not grant network permission. Report DNS, connection, and timeout failures as network errors; do not reset credentials to resolve them. If approved access also fails, stop and report it. Authentication and permission errors require user action.

Resolving script paths

SKILL_DIR in the examples is the directory containing this loaded SKILL.md. Set it to that absolute path before running commands; do not assume the agent sets this shell variable. Quote the script path if it contains spaces.

Prerequisites

Install gh CLI: installation guide

Authentication

# Authenticate with GitHub
gh auth login

# Verify authentication
gh auth status

See GitHub CLI Authentication for details.

Script Usage

The wrapper script (scripts/github.py) formats output as markdown. Use it for read/view operations to get agent-consumable output. Use gh directly for action commands (create, merge, close, comment). See permissions.md for read/write classification of each command.

# Check gh CLI is installed and authenticated
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py check

# Issues
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py issues list --repo OWNER/REPO
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py issues view 123 --repo OWNER/REPO

# Pull Requests
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py prs list --repo OWNER/REPO
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py prs view 456 --repo OWNER/REPO
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py prs checks 456 --repo OWNER/REPO
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py prs status --repo OWNER/REPO

# Workflow Runs
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py runs list --repo OWNER/REPO
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py runs view 12345 --repo OWNER/REPO

# Repositories
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py repos list
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py repos view OWNER/REPO

# Search
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py search repos "machine learning"
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py search issues "label:bug is:open"
$SKILL_DIR/scripts/github.py search prs "is:open review:required"

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

1mo ago Changed · +9 lines d2c788a0e5ed
2mo ago First seen · 287 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 6491c91eb897

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository odyssey4me/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,135 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

Git and workflow Project management

github next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
githubodyssey4me/agent-skills	Skill	13	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	51	Claude Code, Codex
merge-batchdiegosouzapw/OmniRoute	Skill	83k	6d ago	MIT	A	46	Claude Code
prowler-commitprowler-cloud/prowler	Skill	15k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	44	Claude Code, Codex
gh-auth-isolationgithub/gh-aw	Skill	5.6k	yesterday	MIT	A	20	Claude Code, Codex
github-skillzeenie-ai/OpenCompany	Skill	1.1k	2d ago	MIT	A	51	Claude Code
comet-githubrpamis/comet	Skill	3.3k	yesterday	MIT	A	72	Claude Code, Codex
release-helperSahir619/fable-method	Skill	2.3k	1mo ago	MIT	A	43	Claude Code