github-delivery-watchdog

github-delivery-watchdog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenHands/extensions. It costs 26 tokens per session (413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled GitHub service that watches pull requests and merges only the exact current commit after required reviews, tests, status checks and branch checks pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for automatically monitoring configured repositories, retaining a review label when needed, and merging eligible non-draft pull requests.
Why use it?
It prevents a branch from being merged after its checked commit has changed or after required checks are missing. GitHub is the code-hosting service where these pull requests and checks are recorded.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for automatically monitoring configured repositories, retaining a review label when needed, and merging eligible non-draft pull requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openhands/extensions/github-delivery-watchdog
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 OpenHands/extensions --skill github-delivery-watchdog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 413 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.
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 $0.00026 $0.00413
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00165
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00041

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 536cb76358c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-delivery-watchdog 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 2 executable files (scripts/github_client.py, scripts/worker.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-delivery-watchdog/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

GitHub delivery watchdog

This is a deterministic scheduled host command. It creates no agent or conversation and needs no agent profile. Configure a repository-scoped fine-grained PAT with Contents and Issues read/write plus Pull requests, Actions, Commit statuses, and Metadata read. Contents write permits merge; Issues write retains the review label when the branch is updated. Never put the token value in the automation definition.

Package scripts/worker.py as worker.py and the shared scripts/github_client.py as github_client.py. The catalog bundle declares these exact files. Its config.json supplies repos, branch_prefix, and the saved secret name. The shared GitHub client resolves only that named secret. Automation owns scheduling and cancellation.

Set branch_prefix (default openhands/issue), base_branch (defaults to the repository's default branch), and required_workflow_ids when particular Actions workflows must run. The watchdog requires software-factory/tests and software-factory/review success statuses on the exact head, all other statuses and Actions passing, a current base, a non-draft PR, and GitHub reporting it mergeable. Missing, pending, failed, or inaccessible evidence does not permit merge. A changed head requires fresh review and tests. When an accepted branch is behind the base, the watchdog asks GitHub to update it and retains the review trigger label; it considers the new head only on a later run. The merge request includes the expected head SHA.

Actions are optional when required_workflow_ids is empty; the two acceptance statuses remain mandatory. Configure workflow IDs when GitHub Actions must also supply evidence. Branch protection remains GitHub's final merge gate.

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 536cb76358c7

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github-delivery-watchdog is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenHands/extensions (167 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 413 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-17.