github-workflow

A guide for managing GitHub work such as issues, pull requests, labels, and reviews. A pull request is a proposed code change that others can inspect before it is merged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating GitHub issues, preparing pull requests, applying workflow labels, tracking dependencies, or coordinating reviews.
Why use it?
It creates consistent tracking for work that is ready, in progress, blocked, or waiting for review. It also standardizes how coding agents identify themselves and record review results.

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/shwilliamson/automatasaurus/github-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add shwilliamson/automatasaurus --skill github-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shwilliamson/automatasaurus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 872 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 $0.00036 $0.00872
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00087

Measured 2d ago against content hash fe1429f45d95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-workflow 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.

template/skills/github-workflow/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Workflow Skill

Guidance for managing the development workflow through GitHub.

Issue State Labels

Label Description When to Apply
ready No blocking dependencies Issue can be picked up
in-progress Currently being implemented Developer starts work
blocked Waiting on dependencies Has unresolved blockers
needs-review PR open, awaiting reviews PR created
gh issue edit {n} --add-label "in-progress" --remove-label "ready"
gh issue edit {n} --add-label "needs-review" --remove-label "in-progress"

Dependency Tracking

In issue body:

## Dependencies
Depends on #12 (User authentication)
Depends on #15 (Database schema)

Parse dependencies:

gh issue view {n} --json body --jq '.body' | grep -oE "Depends on #[0-9]+" | grep -oE "[0-9]+"
gh issue view {dep} --json state --jq '.state'

Agent Identification

All GitHub interactions must include an agent identifier header.

Format: **[Agent Name]** at the start of every issue body, PR description, and comment.

Standardized Review Comments

Since all agents share the same GitHub user, reviews use standardized comments:

Approval:

✅ APPROVED - [Role]
[Summary]

Changes Requested:

❌ CHANGES REQUESTED - [Role]
[Issues to address]

Required Reviews Per PR

Review When Required
Architect Always
Designer If UI changes
Tester Always

Review Templates

Architect

gh pr comment {n} --body "**[Architect]**

✅ APPROVED - Architect

Clean architecture. LGTM."

Designer

gh pr comment {n} --body "**[Designer]**

✅ APPROVED - Designer

UI looks good. Accessibility met."

# Or if not applicable:
gh pr comment {n} --body "**[Designer]** N/A - No UI changes."

Tester

gh pr comment {n} --body "**[Tester]**

✅ APPROVED - Tester

**Tests:** All passing
**Manual:** Completed

Ready for merge."

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

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 · 162 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A fe1429f45d95

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository shwilliamson/automatasaurus (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 872 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 2026-08-31.

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