GitHub

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asked to check PRs
• View repo status
• Browse notifications
• Fix PR review feedback

Example prompts

• “open PRs”
• “repo status”
• “CI status”
• “/github”

Requirements

• A Bash shell

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 79d019b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 4 files in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • gh
  • git

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • github.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

GitHub loads about 1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 122 tokens; SKILL.md has 353 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~122

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~5.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from espennilsen/pi at commit 79d019b, republished under its MIT licence (© espennilsen). 353 words, ~1,022 tokens.

name

github

description

Interact with GitHub repos, PRs, issues, CI, and notifications via the pi-github extension commands and gh CLI. Use when asked to check PRs, list issues, view repo status, check CI, browse notifications, create or merge PRs, fix PR review feedback, or perform any GitHub operation. **Triggers:** "open PRs", "repo status", "CI status", "merge PR", "fix PR", "fix PRs", "fix review feedback", "create PR", "GitHub notifications", any /gh-* command, or when a GitHub PR URL is shared.

{ "pi-github": { "defaultOwner": "espennilsen" } }

# Structured output
gh pr list --json number,title --jq '.[] | "#\(.number) \(.title)"'

# GraphQL
gh api graphql -f query='{ viewer { login } }'

# API calls
gh api repos/owner/repo/contributors --jq '.[].login'

© espennilsen, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (scripts, references) in skills/github of espennilsen/pi.

• SKILL.md
• references/pr-create.md
• references/pr-fix-parallel.md
• references/pr-fix.md
• references/pr-merge.md
• scripts/check-conflicts.sh
• scripts/fetch-threads.sh
• scripts/reply-thread.sh
• scripts/resolve-thread.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 79d019b