lidge-jun/github

GitHub Skill

Use the gh CLI to interact with GitHub repositories, issues, PRs, and CI.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

• Checking PR status, reviews, or merge readiness
• Viewing CI/workflow run status and logs
• Creating, closing, or commenting on issues
• Creating or merging pull requests
• Querying GitHub API for repository data
• Listing repos, releases, or collaborators
• Addressing PR review comments (merged from gh-address-comments)
• Debugging and fixing failing CI checks (merged from gh-fix-ci)
• Auto-fixing issues and opening PRs (merged from gh-issues)
• Stage → commit → push → PR in one flow (merged from yeet)

When NOT to Use

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

• Local git operations (commit, push, pull, branch) → use git directly
• Non-GitHub repos (GitLab, Bitbucket, self-hosted) → different CLIs
• Cloning repositories → use git clone
• Reviewing actual code changes → use coding-agent skill
• Complex multi-file diffs → use coding-agent or read files directly

Setup

# Authenticate (one-time)
gh auth login

# Verify
gh auth status

Common Commands

Pull Requests

# List PRs
gh pr list --repo owner/repo

# Check CI status
gh pr checks 55 --repo owner/repo

# View PR details
gh pr view 55 --repo owner/repo

# Create PR
gh pr create --title "feat: add feature" --body "Description"

# Merge PR
gh pr merge 55 --squash --repo owner/repo

Issues

# List issues
gh issue list --repo owner/repo --state open

# Create issue
gh issue create --title "Bug: something broken" --body "Details..."

# Close issue
gh issue close 42 --repo owner/repo

CI/Workflow Runs

# List recent runs
gh run list --repo owner/repo --limit 10

# View specific run
gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo

# View failed step logs only
gh run view <run-id> --repo owner/repo --log-failed

# Re-run failed jobs
gh run rerun <run-id> --failed --repo owner/repo

API Queries

# Get PR with specific fields
gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls/55 --jq '.title, .state, .user.login'

# List all labels
gh api repos/owner/repo/labels --jq '.[].name'

# Get repo stats
gh api repos/owner/repo --jq '{stars: .stargazers_count, forks: .forks_count}'

JSON Output

Most commands support --json for structured output with --jq filtering:

gh issue list --repo owner/repo --json number,title --jq '.[] | "\(.number): \(.title)"'
gh pr list --json number,title,state,mergeable --jq '.[] | select(.mergeable == "MERGEABLE")'

Templates

PR Review Summary

PR=55 REPO=owner/repo
echo "## PR #$PR Summary"
gh pr view $PR --repo $REPO --json title,body,author,additions,deletions,changedFiles \
  --jq '"**\(.title)** by @\(.author.login)\n\n\(.body)\n\n📊 +\(.additions) -\(.deletions) across \(.changedFiles) files"'
gh pr checks $PR --repo $REPO

Issue Triage

gh issue list --repo owner/repo --state open --json number,title,labels,createdAt \
  --jq '.[] | "[\(.number)] \(.title) - \([.labels[].name] | join(", ")) (\(.createdAt[:10]))"'

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PR Comment Handling

Address review/issue comments on the open PR for the current branch:

1. Check auth: gh auth status
2. Find current PR: gh pr view --json number,url
3. List review comments: gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pr}/comments --jq '.[] | "\(.id): \(.body[:80])"'
4. Address each comment, commit fixes
5. Push and re-request review

Fix Failing CI

Debug and fix failing GitHub Actions checks:

1. Find failing checks: gh pr checks <PR> --repo owner/repo
2. Get failed run logs: gh run view <run-id> --log-failed
3. Summarize failure snippet and root cause
4. Draft fix plan → get approval → implement
5. Push fix and verify CI passes

Auto-Fix Issues

Fetch issues, implement fixes, and open PRs:

1. List target issues: gh issue list --label bug --limit 5
2. For each issue: create branch, implement fix, open PR
3. Monitor PR reviews and address comments
4. Uses GitHub REST API with $GH_TOKEN for automation

Yeet: Stage → Commit → Push → PR

One-shot flow to ship changes:

1. If on main/master, create branch: git checkout -b codex/{description}
2. Stage changes: git add -A
3. Commit: git commit -m "{description}"
4. Push: git push -u origin HEAD
5. Open PR: gh pr create --title "[codex] {description}" --body "..."

Notes

• Always specify --repo owner/repo when not in a git directory
• Use URLs directly: gh pr view https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/55
• Rate limits apply; use gh api --cache 1h for repeated queries