manage-github-skills

manage-github-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thienan230427/codex-github-skill-manager. It costs 133 tokens per session (1,585 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A manager for GitHub-hosted Codex skills discovers installed skills, tracks their source repositories, and handles missing, legacy, or outdated copies. At session startup, its hook performs a bounded discovery check.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps discover skills, clone confirmed missing source repositories, migrate legacy installations, check for updates, audit SKILL.md discovery, and diagnose unrecognized skills.
Why use it?
It helps keep external skills traceable and findable without automatically overwriting local files, updating skills, or running code from cloned repositories.

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/thienan230427/codex-github-skill-manager/manage-github-skills
Any agent
npx skills add thienan230427/codex-github-skill-manager --skill manage-github-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thienan230427/codex-github-skill-manager

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,585 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00133 $0.01585
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00792
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00159

Measured 4d ago against content hash 180e92895222, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-github-skills scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/session_start.py, scripts/skill_manager.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Enumerates other installed skillslowAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

5. **Dry run**: `gh skill update --dir <managed-root> --dry-run` before any update mutation. The legacy `~/.codex/skills` root is discovery/migration-only and is never an update target.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/manage-github-skills/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage GitHub Skills

Manage external GitHub-backed Codex Agent Skills with deterministic local discovery and GitHub CLI provenance.

Startup behavior

This plugin bundles a trusted-once SessionStart hook. After the user reviews and trusts the hook in Codex, each new Codex session performs a bounded bootstrap:

  1. Discover $HOME/.agents/skills, current-project .agents/skills roots, and an existing $HOME/.codex/skills legacy root.
  2. Read GitHub CLI metadata injected into installed SKILL.md files and compatible .skill-lock.json entries.
  3. Trust a legacy source only when the user previously registered that exact root/folder mapping. Git remotes and labelled repository URLs are candidates for review, never automatic provenance.
  4. Clone each missing confirmed user/legacy OWNER/REPO only once into $HOME/.agents/.codex-github-skill-manager/repos/OWNER/REPO. Project sources are discovery-only at startup.
  5. Return a short discovery summary to Codex so later update requests route to this skill.

The startup hook does not update installed skills, overwrite local files, auto-clone project-controlled sources, or execute scripts from cloned repositories.

Unknown legacy source fallback

If discovery reports source-unknown, the previous installer did not preserve enough provenance to identify the GitHub repository safely. Do not search/guess solely from the skill name. Ask for the repository URL once, then register it:

python scripts/skill_manager.py register --skill SKILL_NAME --repo OWNER/REPO --json

An HTTPS GitHub repository URL is also accepted. If the same name exists in more than one scope, add --root PATH_TO_EXACT_SKILL_ROOT. Add --skill-path path/to/SKILL.md when known so later migration is exact. After registration, run bootstrap or sync; future startup/resume discovery will reuse the scope-bound mapping automatically.

Default update workflow

When the user asks to update/sync GitHub skills, use the bundled manager from this skill directory:

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 138 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 180e92895222

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manage-github-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository thienan230427/codex-github-skill-manager (30 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,585 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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