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Interact with GitHub using the `gh` CLI. Use `gh issue`, `gh pr`, `gh run`, and `gh api` for issues, PRs, CI runs, and advanced queries.

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Install
$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill github --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/github

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Interact with GitHub using the `gh` CLI. Use `gh issue`, `gh pr`, `gh run`, and `gh api` for issues, PRs, CI runs, and advanced queries.

SKILL.md

github.SKILL.md
name: github
description: "Interact with GitHub using the `gh` CLI. Use `gh issue`, `gh pr`, `gh run`, and `gh api` for issues, PRs, CI runs, and advanced queries."

Github

Purpose

Interact with GitHub using the `gh` CLI. Use `gh issue`, `gh pr`, `gh run`, and `gh api` for issues, PRs, CI runs, and advanced queries.

Routing

  • Use when: Use when the user asks to interact with GitHub using the gh CLI. Use gh issue, gh pr, gh run, and gh api for issues, PRs, CI runs, and advanced queries.
  • Do not use when: Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
  • Outputs: Outcome from Github: task-specific result plus concrete action notes.
  • Success criteria: Returns concrete actions and decisions matching the requested task, with no fabricated tool-side behavior.

Trigger Examples

Positive

  • Use the github skill for this request.
  • Help me with github.
  • Use when the user asks to interact with GitHub using the gh CLI. Use gh issue, gh pr, gh run, and gh api for issues, PRs, CI runs, and advanced queries.
  • Github: provide an actionable result.

Negative

  • Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
  • Do not use github for unrelated requests.
  • This request is outside github scope.
  • This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: 942 characters.
  • Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../github.json`.
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