github-maintainer

github-maintainer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills. It costs 3 tokens per session (754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing a GitHub project's open issues and pull requests—the proposed code changes people submit for review. It helps judge what each item means, what evidence supports it, its risks, and the next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for triaging issues and pull requests, checking project guidance and live GitHub status, assessing fit, risk, proof, and blockers, and recommending what maintainers should do next.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of sorting a project queue and prevents decisions based only on titles or incomplete information. It also keeps changes such as merging or closing items behind explicit approval.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for triaging issues and pull requests, checking project guidance and live GitHub status, assessing fit, risk, proof, and blockers, and recommending what maintainers should do next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/github-maintainer
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 Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills --skill github-maintainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 754 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 $0.00003 $0.00754
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00075

Measured 9d ago against content hash 38d75361fda7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-maintainer 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/github-activity.sh), 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.

product/skills/github-maintainer/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Maintainer

Use this when the user wants maintainer-grade judgment over a GitHub project queue. The goal is not just to list issues or pull requests; it is to decide what each item means, what evidence exists, what is risky, and what should happen next.

Scope

  • Default to the current repository when the working directory is a GitHub checkout.
  • Broaden to multiple repositories only when the user asks for broad, all, everything, a named owner, or a named organization.
  • Read local project guidance first when available: CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, maintainer notes, roadmap, project policy files, or equivalent docs.
  • Use live GitHub data through gh when queue state matters.
  • Only comment, close, merge, rerun CI, or push changes after explicit user approval.

Workflow

  1. Identify the repository and confirm access.
  2. Collect open issues and pull requests.
  3. Inspect enough detail to explain each surfaced item.
  4. Classify each item by type, fit, risk, proof, blocker, and next action.
  5. Include trust signals for non-maintainer contributors when recommending action.
  6. If the user asks to act, work one item at a time and verify before moving on.

References

  • Read references/issue-pr-triage.md for queue discovery, item evaluation, trust signals, and output structure.
  • Read references/permissions-and-safety.md before any write action or autonomous project-maintenance work.
  • Use scripts/github-activity.sh when gh and jq are available and contributor trust history is useful.

Default Output

For current-repository triage:

Repo: owner/name
Source: gh commands and local files inspected

Immediate:
- #123 PR: title
  What: one-line plain-language summary.
  Type/Fit/Risk: bug|feature|dependency|docs|internal; good|mixed|poor; low|medium|high because ...
  Trust: factual contributor signal, or unavailable.
  Proof: CI, tests, reproduction, diff review, or missing proof.
  Blocker: none, missing access, failing check, unclear product direction, stale branch, no repro, etc.
  Next: exact maintainer action.

Needs judgment:
- #124 issue: ...

Defer/close:
- #125 issue: ...

Skipped:
- Reason and scope limitation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 80 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 38d75361fda7

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github-maintainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 754 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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