New: 97,000+ skills indexed from GitHub repos with 100+ stars · every skill safety-checkedBrowse top skillsTop skills
Esc to closeBrowse all skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills

Agent skill

GitHub Automation

by ruvnet in ruvnet/ruflo

GitHub workflow automation for issues, pull requests, CI, and releases.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install GitHub Automation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill github-automation -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ruvnet/ruflo github-automation --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/v3/@claude-flow/codex/.agents/skills/github-automation .claude/skills/github-automation && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
github-automation
GitHub stars
74k
Token cost
~182 tokens
SKILL.md length
53 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
264
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

GitHub workflow automation for issues, pull requests, CI, and releases.

  • Works in 4 steps: Confirm repository and branch before… → Inspect CI evidence before changing… → Never publish, merge, or close without… → …
  • : repository hosting actions are explicitly requested
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Commands and Best Practices
  • Calls gh

What it does

GitHub Automation is an agent skill from ruvnet/ruflo. GitHub workflow automation for issues, pull requests, CI, and releases. Use when: repository hosting actions are explicitly requested. Skip when: local git operations are sufficient or publishing is unauthorized.

Its SKILL.md is about 180 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Pull requests. It works with GitHub, GitHub Actions and Git. The repository describes itself as: 🌊 The original agent harness. Deploy intelligent multi-player swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. Features adaptive memory…. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • : repository hosting actions are explicitly requested
  • Tasks that involve Pull requests

Example prompts

  • “/github-automation”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Confirm repository and branch before external writes
  2. Inspect CI evidence before changing workflows
  3. Never publish, merge, or close without authorization
  4. Report the exact resulting URL or identifier

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit de590e1. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • gh

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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 Automation loads about 182 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 53 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~182

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ruvnet/ruflo at commit de590e1, republished under its MIT licence (© ruvnet). 53 words, ~182 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/github-automation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
github-automation
description
GitHub workflow automation for issues, pull requests, CI, and releases. Use when: repository hosting actions are explicitly requested. Skip when: local git operations are sufficient or publishing is unauthorized.

GitHub Automation Skill

Purpose

Automate GitHub workflows while keeping external writes explicit and scoped.

Commands

Create Pull Request
bash
gh pr create --draft
Inspect Checks
bash
gh pr checks

Best Practices

  1. Confirm repository and branch before external writes
  2. Inspect CI evidence before changing workflows
  3. Never publish, merge, or close without authorization
  4. Report the exact resulting URL or identifier

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in v3/@claude-flow/codex/.agents/skills/github-automation of ruvnet/ruflo.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit de590e1

Compare with similar skills

GitHub Automation next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

GitHub Automation compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
GitHub Automation this skillruvnet/ruflo74k—~182Automated safety check: PassMIT
ZCF Release AutomationUfoMiao/zcf6.1k—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Git GitHub Opsc5inco/compose-pokedexer143—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
PR Createposit-dev/skills529—~4.3kAutomated safety check: WarnMIT
Qv Devops PR Reviewtetherto/qvac674—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Contributor-First PR MergeHKUDS/OpenHarness16k1 repos~847Automated safety check: PassMIT

Similar skills

  • ZCF Release Automation

    UfoMiao/zcf

    Automates a version release with changesets: analyzes code changes, writes a bilingual CHANGELOG, bumps the version and commits through a release branch and pull request.

    6.1k GitHub stars~3.4k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    DevelopmentAuto-check passed

  • Git GitHub Ops

    c5inco/compose-pokedexer

    Handles Pokedexer Git and GitHub workflows: inspect changes, prepare commit messages, manage branches and pushes, and create or update issues and pull requests with safe file-based inputs.

    143 GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 4 days ago
    DevelopmentAuto-check passed

  • PR Create

    posit-dev/skills

    Creates a pull request from current changes, monitors GitHub CI, and debugs any failures until CI passes.

    529 GitHub stars~4.3k tokensUpdated today
    DevelopmentAuto-check: warnings

  • Qv Devops PR Review

    tetherto/qvac

    PR review for DevOps changes — runs the generic /qv-pr-review flow then layers a structured GitHub Actions security audit (action pinning, permissions, OIDC, secrets handling).

    674 GitHub stars~2.5k tokensUpdated today
    DevelopmentAuto-check passed

  • Contributor-First PR Merge

    HKUDS/OpenHarness

    Merges external GitHub pull requests while keeping the original author credited, and fixes conflicts after the merge instead of rewriting the contribution.

    16k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~847 tokens
    DevelopmentAuto-check passed

  • Create Pull Request

    cline/cline

    Opens a GitHub pull request from your current branch with the gh CLI, after reviewing the commits and diff and gathering the details the PR needs.

    70k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~1.6k tokens
    DevelopmentAuto-check passed

More from ruvnet/ruflo

All 264 skills in this repo

  • AgentDB Pattern Memory

    ruvnet/ruflo

    Stores, searches, and retrieves successful patterns with HNSW-indexed semantic search so agents can reuse past solutions instead of relearning them.

    74k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~830 tokens
    Auto-check passed

  • Security Audit Scanner

    ruvnet/ruflo

    Runs claude-flow CLI security scans for input validation, path traversal, SQL injection, XSS, hardcoded secrets and known CVEs, and writes an audit report.

    74k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~823 tokens
    Auto-check passed

  • SPARC Development Methodology

    ruvnet/ruflo

    Applies the SPARC method (specification, pseudocode, architecture, refinement, completion) with 17 specialized modes and multi-agent orchestration, from research to deployment.

    74k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~829 tokens
    Auto-check passed

  • Swarm Orchestration

    ruvnet/ruflo

    Coordinates a hierarchical swarm of specialized agents through the claude-flow CLI for work that spans several files or modules at once.

    74k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~779 tokens
    Auto-check passed

  • Ruflo Multi-Agent Orchestration

    ruvnet/ruflo

    Sets up and drives Ruflo, an npm-installed orchestration layer for multi-agent swarms, persistent memory, routing, hooks and its MCP tool catalog.

    74k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~975 tokens
    Auto-check passed

  • Agent Coordination

    ruvnet/ruflo

    Reference for spawning, listing, monitoring and stopping agents with claude-flow commands, with agent type families, routing codes and coordination tips.

    74k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~519 tokens
    Auto-check passed

Works with

Categories

Questions about GitHub Automation

What does GitHub Automation do?

GitHub workflow automation for issues, pull requests, CI, and releases. GitHub Automation is an agent skill from ruvnet/ruflo. GitHub workflow automation for issues, pull requests, CI, and releases.

When should I use GitHub Automation?

GitHub Automation fits situations like: : repository hosting actions are explicitly requested; tasks that involve Pull requests.

How do I install GitHub Automation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill github-automation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (v3/@claude-flow/codex/.agents/skills/github-automation in ruvnet/ruflo) into .claude/skills/github-automation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install GitHub Automation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill github-automation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (v3/@claude-flow/codex/.agents/skills/github-automation in ruvnet/ruflo) into .agents/skills/github-automation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use GitHub Automation in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --skill github-automation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/github-automation, .gemini/skills/github-automation, .github/skills/github-automation and .opencode/skills/github-automation in your project.

What does GitHub Automation need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, GitHub Automation needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh).

Does GitHub Automation access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is GitHub Automation safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does GitHub Automation use?

GitHub Automation is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does GitHub Automation use?

About 182 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 728 characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to GitHub Automation?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with GitHub Automation: ZCF Release Automation (UfoMiao/zcf, 6.1k stars), Git GitHub Ops (c5inco/compose-pokedexer, 143 stars), PR Create (posit-dev/skills, 529 stars) and Qv Devops PR Review (tetherto/qvac, 674 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains GitHub Automation?

ruvnet (a GitHub user) maintains it in ruvnet/ruflo, which has 74,012 GitHub stars. The repository holds 264 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: ruvnet/ruflo on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.