github-tool

A GitHub helper for listing and creating issues and pull requests, the requests and proposed code changes tracked in a GitHub repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view open issues or pull requests, file an issue, or open a pull request from a branch into another branch.
Why use it?
It avoids switching between your coding session and GitHub for basic issue and pull-request management.

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/xuiltul/animaworks/github-tool
Any agent
npx skills add xuiltul/animaworks --skill github-tool
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xuiltul/animaworks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 473 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00040 $0.00473
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00047

Measured yesterday against content hash ce8927025ebc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-tool 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 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.

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.

templates/en/common_skills/github-tool/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Tool

External tool for GitHub issue and PR management via gh CLI.

Invocation via Bash

Use Bash with animaworks-tool github <subcommand> [args]. See Actions below for syntax.

Actions

list_issues — List issues

{"tool_name": "github", "action": "list_issues", "args": {"repo": "owner/repo", "state": "open", "limit": 20}}

create_issue — Create issue

{"tool_name": "github", "action": "create_issue", "args": {"title": "Title", "body": "Description", "labels": "bug,enhancement"}}

list_prs — List pull requests

{"tool_name": "github", "action": "list_prs", "args": {"repo": "owner/repo", "state": "open", "limit": 20}}

create_pr — Create pull request

{"tool_name": "github", "action": "create_pr", "args": {"title": "Title", "body": "Description", "head": "feature-branch", "base": "main", "draft": false}}
  • draft (optional, default: false): Create as draft PR

CLI Usage (S/C/D/G-mode)

animaworks-tool github issues [--repo OWNER/REPO] [--state open] [--limit 20]
animaworks-tool github create-issue --title TITLE --body BODY [--labels LABELS]
animaworks-tool github prs [--repo OWNER/REPO] [--state open] [--limit 20]
animaworks-tool github create-pr --title TITLE --body BODY --head BRANCH [--base main]

Notes

  • gh CLI must be installed and authenticated
  • Without --repo, uses the current directory's repository
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 · 53 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ce8927025ebc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-tool is a skill published in the GitHub repository xuiltul/animaworks (254 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 473 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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