github-guide

github-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 111 tokens per session (3,233 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for managing GitHub issues, project boards, pull requests, reviews, comments, and repository checks. GitHub is a service for hosting code and coordinating changes; its project boards track work as cards and status fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deliver tickets, update GitHub Projects, work with pull requests and reviews, preserve issue or PR context, and apply GitHub-based repository or CI rules.
Why use it?
It prevents different GitHub records from being confused, such as an issue, a project card, a pull-request review, and a comment. This keeps ticket status, review decisions, and supporting context in the right places.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the xonovex-skill-github plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to deliver tickets, update GitHub Projects, work with pull requests and reviews, preserve issue or PR context, and apply GitHub-based repository or CI rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/github-guide
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 xonovex/platform --skill github-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-skill-github, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,233 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.
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 $0.00111 $0.03233
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01617
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00647
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00323

Measured 4d ago against content hash e8ca8cf8468a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-guide 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 4d 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.

packages/skill/skill-github/github-guide/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub workflow delivery and enforcement: quick reference

How to realize tickets, kanban, pull-request delivery, durable context projections, and provider-native external enforcement on GitHub. These operations do not teach ticket, review, or PR content craft; they map finished artifacts and workflow intent onto GitHub-native resources.

  • What a good review comment says (Conventional Comments labels, blocking vs non-blocking, summary plus inline, cross-linking) belongs to code-review-guide.
  • What a good PR description says (sizing, how-tested, tradeoffs, self-review) belongs to pull-request-guide.
  • The local-git push and rebase that get a clean branch onto the remote belong to git-guide's push reference.

This skill only takes those finished artifacts and posts them through gh / gh api.

The one thing to internalize: a repository issue, a ProjectV2 item, a project Status field, a pull-request review, and a top-level context comment are separate native objects. Preserve and mutate their exact IDs separately; never turn project status into issue state, context into approval, or an issue comment into an inline review.

When this skill fires:

  1. Confirm the host is GitHub and auth works: gh auth status then a real read call (gh api user), before any write.
  2. Resolve the exact issue, project item/field, pull request, review thread, or comment identity before writing.
  3. Reach for gh api when high-level verbs cannot express the exact native operation.
  4. Use an append-only top-level issue comment for durable context, not a review comment or verdict.
  5. Load the references/*.md file matching the task, not everything upfront.

Requirements

  • gh authenticated to the target host. First-time install + gh auth login + protocol + clone + verify are in references/first-time-setup.md; token families, per-operation least-privilege scopes, and storage are in references/auth.md.
  • The git remote points at GitHub: gh repo view --json nameWithOwner,url resolves it; a github.com host (or a GHES host) on git remote get-url origin is the detection signal. For GHES, set GH_HOST / --hostname and use GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN (see auth).
  • Projects operations require the project scope and explicit user or organization owner; refresh with gh auth refresh -s project when appropriate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

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 · 145 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A e8ca8cf8468a

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github-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 3,233 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-08.