readable-github

readable-github is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yamadashy/agent-readable. It costs 101 tokens per session (506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reading GitHub repositories and their work items through the gh command-line tool. GitHub is a service for hosting code, reviews, issues, discussions, and release files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect repositories, README files, file trees, code, issues, pull requests, discussions, and releases from GitHub links.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined way to find repository details, code, review comments, issue history, and other project information without relying on a web page layout.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect repositories, README files, file trees, code, issues, pull requests, discussions, and releases from GitHub links.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-github
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 yamadashy/agent-readable --skill readable-github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yamadashy/agent-readable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for readable-github

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 506 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 $0.00101 $0.00506
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00202
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00051

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3501f0bffb0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

readable-github 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 1mo 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/readable-github/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Reader

Uses the gh CLI (which calls the GitHub REST/GraphQL API) for everything. The CLI handles auth, pagination, and rate limiting; AUP exempts API access from its scraping clauses.

Prerequisite

gh auth status

If not logged in: gh auth login.

Pick the right reference

Identify what kind of GitHub URL the user supplied, then follow the matching reference file:

URL shape Reference
github.com/{owner}/{repo} (root, README, file tree) references/repo.md
github.com/{owner}/{repo}/issues/... references/issues.md
github.com/{owner}/{repo}/pull/... references/pulls.md
github.com/{owner}/{repo}/discussions/... references/discussions.md
github.com/{owner}/{repo}/blob/..., tree/..., code search references/code.md
github.com/{owner}/{repo}/releases/... references/releases.md

For Gist URLs (gist.github.com/...), use the readable-gist skill instead.

General tips

  • Prefer gh subcommands (gh repo, gh issue, gh pr, ...) where they exist; fall back to gh api for endpoints they don't cover.
  • Use --json {fields} to keep responses small. Each subcommand documents its --json field set; run gh {sub} view --help to list them.
  • Rate limit: 5,000 req/hour for authenticated users. gh api rate_limit reports current usage.
Files

What ships with it

6 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. 1mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 3501f0bffb0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

readable-github is a skill published in the GitHub repository yamadashy/agent-readable (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 506 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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