gh-cli

A command-line reference for GitHub, the service used to host code repositories and collaborate on software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps manage repositories, issues, pull requests, automated checks, releases, projects, organizations, and other GitHub features from a terminal.
Why use it?
It avoids having to remember the commands for common GitHub tasks or look them up separately.

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/re-cinq/wave/gh-cli
Any agent
npx skills add re-cinq/wave --skill gh-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/re-cinq/wave

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 763 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 $0.00045 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00076

Measured yesterday against content hash 7ca9f897306d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-cli 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/gh-cli/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub CLI (gh)

Work seamlessly with GitHub from the command line. For the complete command reference see references/full-reference.md.

Authentication

# Interactive login
gh auth login

# Login with token
gh auth login --with-token < token.txt

# Check status
gh auth status

# Switch accounts
gh auth switch --hostname github.com --user username

# Setup git credential helper
gh auth setup-git

# Print active token
gh auth token

Pull Requests

# Create PR (interactive)
gh pr create

# Create with title, body, base, draft, reviewer
gh pr create --title "Feature: X" --body "Details..." --base main --draft --reviewer alice

# List open PRs
gh pr list

# List with filters
gh pr list --author @me --labels bug --state all --limit 50

# View a PR
gh pr view 123
gh pr view 123 --comments --web

# Merge a PR
gh pr merge 123 --squash --delete-branch

# Check CI status
gh pr checks 123
gh pr checks 123 --watch

Issues

# Create issue (interactive)
gh issue create

# Create with title and labels
gh issue create --title "Bug: X" --body "Steps..." --labels bug,high-priority --assignee @me

# List open issues
gh issue list

# List with filters
gh issue list --assignee @me --labels bug --state all --search "is:open label:bug"

# View an issue
gh issue view 123
gh issue view 123 --comments --web

# Close / reopen
gh issue close 123 --comment "Fixed in PR #456"
gh issue reopen 123

Common Flags

Flag Description
--repo OWNER/REPO Target a specific repository
--json FIELDS Output JSON for given fields
--jq EXPRESSION Filter JSON output with jq
--web Open result in browser
--paginate Follow pagination for large result sets
--limit N Cap result count

API Requests

# REST GET
gh api /user --jq '.login'

# REST POST with fields
gh api --method POST /repos/owner/repo/issues \
  --field title="Issue title" --field body="Body"

# Paginate all results
gh api /user/repos --paginate

# GraphQL query
gh api graphql -f query='{ viewer { login } }'

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 130 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 7ca9f897306d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gh-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository re-cinq/wave (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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