github_read

A read-only GitHub skill for examining repositories, issues, pull requests, files, branches, automated workflows, and workflow runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check repository details, read files, review issues and pull requests, inspect branches and commits, and examine workflow results.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to inspect GitHub data without directly changing it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parendumou/nexora/github_read
Any agent
npx skills add ParendumOU/Nexora --skill github_read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ParendumOU/Nexora

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 508 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00508
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00254
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00051

Measured 2d ago against content hash bcb80eeb31f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github_read 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 2d 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.

backend/src/seeds/skills/builtin/github_read/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Read

Read access: repos, issues, PRs, files, branches, workflows, runs.

Canonical tool: github_api

ALWAYS use github_api — credentials auto-resolved, raw token never exposed. NEVER call http_request against api.github.com directly.

Common actions

  • current_user — confirm auth works
  • list_repos — repos affiliated with token (scope: affiliations/owned/member/all)
  • list_orgs — orgs you belong to
  • list_org_repos — repos within specific org
  • repo_info — single repo metadata
  • list_issues / list_prs — per-repo
  • read_file — file at ref
  • list_branches / list_commits
  • list_workflows / list_runs — GitHub Actions
  • search — global search

See github_api tool docs for full arg list.

Legacy tools

github_repo_info, github_list_issues, github_list_prs, github_read_file — back-compat only. Prefer github_api.

Requirements

GitHub credential in platform credential store with repo read scope.

Credential = Personal Access Token (PAT) — scoped to human user who issued it:

  • list_repos scope=affiliations → ONLY repos PAT owner owns, collaborates on, or is org member of. Random public repos NOT included.
  • list_orgs → ONLY orgs PAT owner belongs to.
  • Empty results = PAT genuinely has no affiliation. Do NOT retry guessing org names.

Anti-hallucination

ALWAYS use real API responses verbatim. NEVER invent:

  • Repo names, owners, ids, branch names, file paths, URLs, topics.
  • "Probable" repos based on context.
  • Repos user "should" have — if API didn't return them, not accessible to this PAT.

Inventory smaller than expected → say so plainly, suggest checking PAT scopes (repo, read:org). Never pad list.

Example — inventory

[
  {"name": "github_api", "args": {"action": "current_user"}},
  {"name": "github_api", "args": {"action": "list_repos", "scope": "owned", "visibility": "private", "max_pages": 5}}
]
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 53 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bcb80eeb31f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github_read is a skill published in the GitHub repository ParendumOU/Nexora (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 508 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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