github-api-cache

A helper that stores GitHub project information for reuse before work is performed through GitHub, the code-hosting service. It is run when a session starts and other skills use its stored data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting coding-agent sessions and carrying out GitHub project operations using cached project information. It is also used by other skills that need GitHub data.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated requests to GitHub and helps avoid GitHub rate limits, which restrict how many requests an account can make in a period of time.

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/troykelly/claude-skills/github-api-cache
Any agent
npx skills add troykelly/claude-skills --skill github-api-cache
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/troykelly/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,534 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00034 $0.02534
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01267
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00253

Measured 2d ago against content hash c4a266423027, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-api-cache 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 2d 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-api-cache/SKILL.md · 298 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 298 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A c4a266423027

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-api-cache is a skill published in the GitHub repository troykelly/claude-skills (11 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,534 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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