github-operations

github-operations is a skill for Claude Code from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using the GitHub command-line tool for managing issues, pull requests, milestones, and Projects v2. It also covers REST and GraphQL API calls and scripts for bulk operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and update issues or pull requests, manage milestones and Projects v2 fields, run GraphQL queries, and automate bulk GitHub changes.
Why use it?
It turns common GitHub project-management work into repeatable command-line operations. It helps keep issues, pull requests, milestones, and project fields organized.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ork plugin — 111 skills, 38 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and update issues or pull requests, manage milestones and Projects v2 fields, run GraphQL queries, and automate bulk GitHub changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/github-operations
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 yonatangross/orchestkit --skill github-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 111 skills, 38 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,271 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.03271
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01308
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00327

Measured 11d ago against content hash 376b1dc53fee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-operations 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 11d 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.

plugins/ork/skills/github-operations/SKILL.md · 317 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Operations

Comprehensive GitHub CLI (gh) operations for project management, from basic issue creation to advanced Projects v2 integration and milestone tracking via REST API.

Overview

  • Creating and managing GitHub issues and PRs
  • Working with GitHub Projects v2 custom fields
  • Managing milestones (sprints, releases) via REST API
  • Automating bulk operations with gh
  • Running GraphQL queries for complex operations

CRITICAL: Task Management is MANDATORY (CC 2.1.16)

BEFORE doing ANYTHING else, create tasks to track progress:

# 1. Create main task IMMEDIATELY
TaskCreate(
  subject="GitHub Operations: {target}",
  description="Managing GitHub issues, PRs, milestones, or Projects",
  activeForm="Managing GitHub resources"
)

# 2. Create subtasks matching the operation scope
TaskCreate(subject="Issue management", activeForm="Creating/updating issues")
TaskCreate(subject="PR management", activeForm="Managing pull requests")
TaskCreate(subject="Milestone tracking", activeForm="Updating milestones")

# 3. Set dependencies if operations are sequential
TaskUpdate(taskId="3", addBlockedBy=["2"])
TaskUpdate(taskId="4", addBlockedBy=["3"])

# 4. Update status as you progress
TaskUpdate(taskId="2", status="in_progress")  # When starting
TaskUpdate(taskId="2", status="completed")    # When done

Quick Reference

Issue Operations

# Create issue with labels and milestone
gh issue create --title "Bug: API returns 500" --body "..." --label "bug" --milestone "Sprint 5"

# List and filter issues
gh issue list --state open --label "backend" --assignee @me

# Edit issue metadata
gh issue edit 123 --add-label "high" --milestone "v2.0"

PR Operations

# Create PR with reviewers
gh pr create --title "feat: Add search" --body "..." --base dev --reviewer @teammate

# Watch CI status and auto-merge
gh pr checks 456 --watch
gh pr merge 456 --auto --squash --delete-branch

# Resume a session linked to a PR (CC 2.1.27)
claude --from-pr 456           # Resume session with PR context (diff, comments, review status)
claude --from-pr https://github.com/org/repo/pull/456

Read the full file on GitHub · 317 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. 11d ago Changed · -1 lines 376b1dc53fee
  2. 19d ago Changed · -9 lines e7bcdc4d6b0d
  3. 20d ago Changed · -1 lines 5930e9f2d9d7
  4. 28d ago Changed 95da38410813
  5. 1mo ago Changed 98dddf6b8427
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 328 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 413a51620886

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github-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (296 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,271 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.