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Skills gh-cli

Enforces authenticated gh CLI workflows over unauthenticated curl/WebFetch patterns. Use when working with GitHub URLs, API access, pull requests, or issues.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/trailofbits/skills
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/.codex/skills/gh-cli" ~/.claude/skills/trailofbits-skills-gh-cli && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: .codex/skills/gh-cli/SKILL.md
source content

gh-cli

When to Use

  • Working with GitHub repositories, pull requests, issues, releases, or raw file URLs.
  • You need authenticated access to private repositories or higher API rate limits.
  • You are about to use 
    curl
    , 
    wget
    , or unauthenticated web fetches against GitHub.

When NOT to Use

  • The target is not GitHub.
  • Plain local git operations already solve the task.

Guidance

Prefer the authenticated 

gh
CLI over raw HTTP fetches for GitHub content. In particular:

  • Prefer 
    gh repo view
    , 
    gh pr view
    , 
    gh pr list
    , 
    gh issue view
    , and 
    gh api
    over unauthenticated 
    curl
    or 
    wget
    .
  • Prefer cloning a repository and reading files locally over fetching 
    raw.githubusercontent.com
    blobs directly.
  • Avoid using GitHub API 
    /contents/
    endpoints as a substitute for cloning and reading repository files.

Examples:

gh repo view owner/repo
gh pr view 123 --repo owner/repo
gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls

For the original Claude plugin implementation, see:

  • plugins/gh-cli/README.md
  • plugins/gh-cli/hooks/