github-cache-hygiene

github-cache-hygiene is a skill for Codex from steipete/agent-scripts. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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 Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit 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.

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

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,564 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 $0.00026 $0.01564
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00626
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00156

Measured 25d ago against content hash 6fdc6f843c04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 25d 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-cache-hygiene/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 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,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. --json selects output, not a reader identity. In Octopool 0.7.1, PR mergeStateStatus and issue comments select native gh for the entire field bundle. PR comment/review/commit exports also retain native handling. Request those fields when needed, but omit them from descriptive reads that do not consume them. Never remove merge/review gates merely to raise cache reuse, or split one decision into separately timed reads without preserving its consistency contract.

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. 25d ago Changed · +40 lines 6fdc6f843c04
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b3b3683c8f81

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github-cache-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (7,379 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,564 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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