github

github is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sammcj/agentic-coding. It costs 40 tokens per session (421 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for using GitHub, a service for hosting code and managing team work, through the `gh` command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working with issues, pull requests, releases, review threads, and GitHub Actions from the command line.
Why use it?
It keeps GitHub tasks consistent and specifies how to handle pull requests, review comments, and GitHub Actions safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Working with issues, pull requests, releases, review threads, and GitHub Actions from the command line.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/github
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 sammcj/agentic-coding --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for github

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 421 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

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 →

  • low Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00421
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00168
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 27f7dcbe1415, 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.

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 · 17 lines

What it actually says

GitHub

  • Use the gh CLI tool for interacting with GitHub (issues, PRs, releases) and perform gh commands outside of the sandbox
  • When when working with Github Actions, you should always check for and use the latest Actions versions that are at least 7 days old, you can use pinact run -update --min-age 7 to achieve this
  • For the general PR conversation timeline (not line-level review comments), use gh pr view --comments or the REST /issues/N/comments endpoint
  • When you need to read line-level review comments with their resolved state (e.g. triaging bot or human review feedback), fetch them via GraphQL in one call: gh api graphql -f query='query { repository(owner: "OWNER", name: "REPO") { pullRequest(number: N) { reviewThreads(first: 100) { nodes { id isResolved path line comments(first: 1) { nodes { author { login } body } } } } } } }' --jq '.data.repository.pullRequest.reviewThreads.nodes[] | select(.isResolved == false)'
  • When explicitly asked by the user to "close" or "resolve" a review comment, resolve the thread via the GraphQL mutation (do not reply to a comment unless instructed): gh api graphql -f query='mutation($id: ID!) { resolveReviewThread(input: { threadId: $id }) { thread { isResolved } } }' -f id="PRRT_..."
  • Thread IDs start with PRRT_. Use unresolveReviewThread to reopen
  • You can audit Github Actions security by running zizmor .
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 · 17 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 27f7dcbe1415

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github is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (167 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 421 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.