github

This skill leverages the official GitHub CLI (`gh`) to provide comprehensive interaction with GitHub. It enables AI agents to manage various aspects of GitHub repositories, including listing and viewing pull requests and issues, creating new ones, adding comments, and monitoring CI/CD runs. The skill also facilitates direct queries to the GitHub API for advanced data retrieval.

Designed for developers and DevOps engineers, this skill streamlines common GitHub workflows, allowing for efficient automation of tasks that typically require manual interaction with the GitHub web interface or complex API scripting. It integrates seamlessly into agent-driven development and operational pipelines.

The skill emphasizes using `gh` for GitHub-specific operations, while recommending `git` for local version control and dedicated code-reading tools for in-depth reviews, ensuring a clear separation of concerns.

What It Does

The skill provides an interface for the GitHub CLI (`gh`), allowing an AI agent to perform a wide range of GitHub operations. This includes listing, viewing, creating, and merging pull requests; managing issues (listing, viewing, creating, commenting, closing); monitoring CI/CD runs; and executing arbitrary queries against the GitHub API. It enables programmatic interaction with GitHub resources.

When To Use

Use this skill when an AI agent needs to:
* Automate pull request management (e.g., creating PRs from generated code, merging approved PRs).
* Manage issues (e.g., creating bug reports, commenting on issues, closing resolved issues).
* Monitor CI/CD pipeline status and logs.
* Fetch specific repository data or user information via the GitHub API.
* Integrate GitHub operations into automated development workflows or incident response.

Limitations

Installation

Add to Copilot workspace settings

Add to .cursor/skills/

Add to Cline skills directory

Configure in .aider.conf.yml

Add to .vscode/skills/