github-author-context

github-author-context is a skill for Codex from steipete/agent-scripts. It costs 19 tokens per session (942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub contributor-profile workflow for understanding the person behind a pull request or GitHub account. It gathers identity, activity, trust, and company or team context from available maintainer records.

In plain words
What is it for?
It builds a compact maintainer-facing profile from a GitHub login, using contributor files and limited fallback searches when needed.
Why use it?
It gives code reviewers relevant background about an unfamiliar contributor instead of judging a change without context.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit It builds a compact maintainer-facing profile from a GitHub login, using contributor files and limited fallback searches when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/steipete/agent-scripts/github-author-context
About the project

Agent Scripts is a repository of shared instructions, reusable skills, helper scripts, and local safeguards for coding-agent workflows across multiple workspaces. It is for maintaining common agent behavior and portable development utilities between repositories.

steipete/agent-scripts · 7,379 stars · on GitHub · steipete.me

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 steipete/agent-scripts --skill github-author-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 942 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
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 $0.00019 $0.00942
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00377
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00094

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 73b33e6b29b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-author-context 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-author-context/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Author Context

Build a compact maintainer-facing profile for a PR author or GitHub user. Use this by default during PR review unless the author is Peter (steipete, Peter Steinberger, or an obvious Peter-owned bot/account).

Inputs

Prefer a GitHub login. From a PR:

gh pr view <n> --json author,url,headRepository,baseRepository -q '{author:.author.login,url:.url,repo:.baseRepository.nameWithOwner}'

Skip the profile pass for steipete unless the user explicitly asks.

Source Order

  1. OpenClaw contributor notes:
~/Projects/maintainers/scripts/clawtributors find github <login>

If a contributor file matches in ~/Projects/maintainers/contributors/people, read only:

  • Identity
  • Signals
  • Context
  • Evidence
  • Notes

Fallback only when the new contributor file is missing and old maintainer context might help:

rg -n -i "<login>|<name>|<discord>" ~/Projects/openclaw-maintainers/people ~/Projects/openclaw-maintainers/data

If an old person file matches, read only the relevant sections:

  • Verdict
  • Identity
  • Company Affiliation
  • Metrics
  • Discord Communication
  • Evidence
  • Risks / Concerns / Recommendation when present
  1. Live GitHub public profile:
gh api "users/<login>" --jq '{login,name,company,location,bio,blog,twitter_username,created_at,followers,following,public_repos}'
  1. Target-repo activity:
gh search prs --repo <owner/repo> --author <login> --state merged --limit 20 --json number,title,mergedAt,url
gh search prs --repo <owner/repo> --author <login> --state open --limit 20 --json number,title,updatedAt,url
gh search issues --repo <owner/repo> --author <login> --state open --limit 20 --json number,title,updatedAt,url
gh api "repos/<owner>/<repo>/collaborators/<login>/permission" --jq '{permission,user:.user.login}' 2>/dev/null || true

For OpenClaw, prefer the new openclaw/maintainers contributor file over recomputing activity unless freshness clearly matters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 1mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 73b33e6b29b2

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github-author-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (7,379 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 942 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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