Agent skill

GitHub

by Team-Commonly in Team-Commonly/commonly

Interact with GitHub (issues, PRs, repos, releases) using the gh CLI.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install GitHub

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Team-Commonly/commonly github --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/Team-Commonly/commonly.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github .claude/skills/github && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "github" agent skill from https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/tree/main/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github into .claude/skills/github/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "github", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/tree/main/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Team-Commonly/commonly github --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github .agents/skills/github && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "github" agent skill from https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/tree/main/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github into .agents/skills/github/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "github", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Team-Commonly/commonly github --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github .cursor/skills/github && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "github" agent skill from https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/tree/main/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github into .cursor/skills/github/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "github", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly.git --path backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Team-Commonly/commonly github --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github .gemini/skills/github && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "github" agent skill from https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/tree/main/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github into .gemini/skills/github/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "github", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Team-Commonly/commonly github

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github .github/skills/github && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "github" agent skill from https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/tree/main/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github into .github/skills/github/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "github", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Team-Commonly/commonly github --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github .opencode/skills/github && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "github" agent skill from https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/tree/main/backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github into .opencode/skills/github/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "github", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: github
GitHub stars: 1.4k
Token cost: ~857 tokens
SKILL.md length: 273 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 7
Repo updated: Oct 7, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

Interact with GitHub (issues, PRs, repos, releases) using the gh CLI.

Write GitHub state — open an issue
SKILL.md covers Common operations, Heredoc for multi-line…, Useful patterns and When NOT to use github
Calls gh; reaches patch-diff.githubusercontent.com; needs GH_TOKEN

What it does

GitHub is an agent skill from Team-Commonly/commonly. Interact with GitHub (issues, PRs, repos, releases) using the gh CLI. Use when asked to read or write GitHub state — open an issue, fetch PR diff, comment, list runs, etc.

Its SKILL.md is about 860 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. It works with GitHub. The repository describes itself as: Open-source room for humans + cross-vendor AI agents. Every agent gets its own name, memory, skills, and workstation. Any runtime, your infra — no per-agent fees. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

Write GitHub state — open an issue

Example prompts

“/github”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e06dd7c. 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
Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:
- patch-diff.githubusercontent.com
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
- GH_TOKEN
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

GitHub loads about 857 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 45 tokens; SKILL.md has 273 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~45
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~857

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 Team-Commonly/commonly at commit e06dd7c, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Team-Commonly). 273 words, ~857 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/github/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: github
description: Interact with GitHub (issues, PRs, repos, releases) using the `gh` CLI. Use when asked to read or write GitHub state — open an issue, fetch PR diff, comment, list runs, etc.

github — GitHub via the `gh` CLI

The gh CLI is installed on PATH. The gateway environment provides a GITHUB_PAT env var (a Team-Commonly fine-grained PAT with repo + PR scope) which gh picks up automatically as GH_TOKEN.

The active GitHub identity is Team-Commonly bot identity — anything you push, comment, or open will be attributed to that account.

No shell? Don't use gh. The gh examples below assume a real shell (codex / claude-code runtimes). OpenClaw runtimes (theo/nova/pixel/ops) have no shell and cannot run gh at all. For those agents:

Read a PR diff: web.fetch the raw public diff at https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/Team-Commonly/commonly/pull/<N>.diff.

Post a review verdict: write it into the dev pod chat (read-only review).

codex / claude-code runtimes have a shell: use gh directly, as below.

There is deliberately no commonly_pr_* MCP tool. The pair that existed was removed because it spent a shared server-side credential on a caller-chosen repository, so any agent could review any repo that credential reached. gh acts as the machine's own GitHub identity and supports line-level comments, which those tools never did.

Common operations

Issues

bash

# List open issues in a repo
gh issue list --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --state open

# Create an issue
gh issue create --repo Team-Commonly/commonly \
  --title "Title here" \
  --body "Body here"

# Comment on an issue
gh issue comment 123 --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --body "comment"

Pull requests

bash

# List open PRs
gh pr list --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --state open

# View a PR (diff, comments, status)
gh pr view 287 --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --json title,body,additions,deletions

# Get a PR's diff
gh pr diff 287 --repo Team-Commonly/commonly

# Comment on a PR
gh pr comment 287 --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --body "comment text"

# Check CI status
gh pr checks 287 --repo Team-Commonly/commonly

Repos / files

bash

# View a file at a specific ref
gh api repos/Team-Commonly/commonly/contents/README.md --jq '.content' | base64 -d

# Search code
gh search code 'commonly_attach_file' --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --limit 20

Workflows / runs

bash

# List recent workflow runs
gh run list --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --limit 10

# View a specific run's logs
gh run view 12345 --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --log

Heredoc for multi-line PR/issue bodies

bash

gh pr comment 287 --repo Team-Commonly/commonly --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
Multi-line comment.

- Bullet one
- Bullet two
EOF
)"

Useful patterns

Always pass --repo <org/name> explicitly; the gateway's working directory may not be inside a clone.
Prefer --json <fields> --jq <expr> over scraping plain output — more reliable and structured.
Don't push code directly — the dev pattern is "open a PR with gh pr create --base main --head <branch>" and let humans review.

When NOT to use github

For long-running coding tasks → delegate to sam-local-codex via DM (per ADR-005 Stage 3).
For pasting GitHub URLs into chat → just include the URL; the chat surface renders it.

Files

Just SKILL.md in backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github of Team-Commonly/commonly.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e06dd7c

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Works with

GitHub

Questions about GitHub

What does GitHub do?

Interact with GitHub (issues, PRs, repos, releases) using the gh CLI. GitHub is an agent skill from Team-Commonly/commonly. Interact with GitHub (issues, PRs, repos, releases) using the gh CLI.

When should I use GitHub?

GitHub fits situations like: write GitHub state — open an issue.

How do I install GitHub in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github in Team-Commonly/commonly) into .claude/skills/github in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install GitHub in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (backend/commonly-bundled-skills/github in Team-Commonly/commonly) into .agents/skills/github in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use GitHub 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 Team-Commonly/commonly --skill github -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, .gemini/skills/github, .github/skills/github and .opencode/skills/github in your project.

What does GitHub need to run?

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

Does GitHub access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: patch-diff.githubusercontent.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is GitHub 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 use?

GitHub is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does GitHub use?

About 857 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k 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?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with GitHub: PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars), Greploop (onyx-dot-app/onyx, 32k stars), Check PR (onyx-dot-app/onyx, 32k stars) and Setup Matt Pocock Skills (bestofjs/bestofjs, 3.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains GitHub?

Team-Commonly (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Team-Commonly/commonly, which has 1,361 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

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

Install GitHub

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

github — GitHub via the gh CLI

Common operations

Issues

Pull requests

Repos / files

Workflows / runs

Heredoc for multi-line PR/issue bodies

Useful patterns

When NOT to use github

Files

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Questions about GitHub

github — GitHub via the `gh` CLI