github-cache-hygiene

A guide for finding GitHub issues and pull requests in a local archive before requesting current information. It also describes a cached GitHub command setup for checking fresh metadata and authorized changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search archived issues and pull requests, inspect discussion threads, check current GitHub status, and work with open or closed items using structured output.
Why use it?
It can reduce repeated GitHub requests and help stay within service quotas while still allowing current state to be checked when needed. It also distinguishes archived results from proof of the live state.

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/steipete/agent-scripts/github-cache-hygiene
Any agent
npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill github-cache-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,043 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 $0.00026 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00104

Measured yesterday against content hash b3b3683c8f81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-cache-hygiene 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.

skills/github-cache-hygiene/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Cache Hygiene

Goal: discover in the local Gitcrawl archive first, then use the existing Octopool-backed gh shim for current GitHub metadata and authorized writes.

Default Path

Start with local archive reads:

gitcrawl search prs "<terms>" -R owner/repo --state open --json number,title,url
gitcrawl threads owner/repo --numbers 123 --include-closed --json

--include-closed keeps closed or merged candidates in scope. Archive state can lag GitHub; it is not proof of current state.

Then use bare PATH gh when current metadata is needed. On Peter's machines it is expected to be the Octopool-backed shim, so supported JSON reads share the fleet cache without changing authentication or command routing:

gh search issues "<terms>" -R owner/repo --state open --json number,title,state,url,updatedAt,labels,author
gh search prs "<terms>" -R owner/repo --state open --json number,title,state,url,updatedAt,isDraft,author
gh issue list -R owner/repo --state open --author user --assignee user --label bug --json number,title,url
gh pr list -R owner/repo --state open --author user --label dependencies --json number,title,url
gh issue view 123 -R owner/repo --json number,title,state,body,comments,labels,url
gh pr view 123 -R owner/repo --json number,title,state,url,headRefName,headRefOid
gh pr checks 123 -R owner/repo --json name,state,bucket,link
gh run list -R owner/repo --branch branch-name --json databaseId,workflowName,status,conclusion,url
gh pr diff 123 -R owner/repo --patch

Use exact refs and narrow fields. Avoid broad loops like one gh issue view per result when a single gh search or gh issue list --json ... can answer the first-pass question.

For CI, avoid tight gh run list / gh run view polling loops. After a push or workflow dispatch, identify one exact run, then poll that run at 30s, 60s, then 120s intervals. Fetch logs once, only after failure or explicit request. Reuse prior output instead of re-reading completed runs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 · 90 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b3b3683c8f81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-cache-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (6,580 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,043 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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