github

A set of helpers for GitHub and Git, the tools commonly used to store code, manage issues, review changes, and work with remote repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list, create, close, assign, and filter issues; manage project boards; sync tasks; create pull requests; check or retrigger tests; bump versions; and push changes.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember separate command-line steps for common repository and project tasks. It also uses the existing GitHub login when available.

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/tonycasey/lisa/github
Any agent
npx skills add TonyCasey/lisa --skill github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TonyCasey/lisa

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,834 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 $0.00065 $0.03834
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01917
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00767
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00383

Measured yesterday against content hash 75df06516520, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -H "Circle-Token: ${CIRCLE_TOKEN}" \
src/project/.lisa/skills/github/SKILL.md · 534 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 534 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Model-neutral helper for GitHub and Git workflows including Issues, Projects v2, PR management, CI triggers, and version bumping. Uses the gh CLI.

Triggers

Use when the user says:

  • "create a github issue", "create issue", "new issue"
  • "list github issues", "show issues", "open issues"
  • "close issue", "reopen issue", "assign issue"
  • "github project", "project board", "kanban"
  • "add to project", "update project field", "move to column"
  • "sync tasks with github", "import github issues", "export tasks to github"
  • "create a pr", "check pr status", "retrigger tests", "toggle test label", "pr checks", "bump version", "push to remote"

Configuration

Uses existing gh CLI authentication. Verify with:

gh auth status

Alternatively, set GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable for CI/headless environments.

How to use

Issues

List Issues
# List open issues
lisa github issues list --repo owner/repo

# List with filters
lisa github issues list --repo owner/repo --state open --labels bug,urgent --assignee @me --limit 20

# List all issues (including closed)
lisa github issues list --repo owner/repo --state all
Create Issue
# Basic issue
lisa github issues create --repo owner/repo --title "Bug: Login fails"

# With body and labels
lisa github issues create --repo owner/repo --title "Feature: Dark mode" --body "Add dark mode support" --labels enhancement,ui

# With assignee
lisa github issues create --repo owner/repo --title "Task" --assignee username
View Issue
lisa github issues view --repo owner/repo 123
Close/Reopen Issue
# Close as completed
lisa github issues close --repo owner/repo 123

# Close as not planned
lisa github issues close --repo owner/repo 123 --reason not_planned

# Reopen
lisa github issues reopen --repo owner/repo 123
Assign Issue
lisa github issues assign --repo owner/repo 123 --to username
lisa github issues assign --repo owner/repo 123 --to user1,user2

Read the full file on GitHub · 534 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 · 534 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 75df06516520

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github is a skill published in the GitHub repository TonyCasey/lisa (9 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 3,834 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.