Claude Skill

githubbing

Installs and authenticates the GitHub CLI (gh) in a Claude.ai container, then runs gh commands against it. Use for "install gh", "gh auth", "create an issue or PR from the CLI", "gh is not authenticated", or any GitHub operation you want to issue as a gh command rather than a raw

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Part of oaustegard/claude-skills — 39 skills

Install

skills CLI npx skills add https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills/tree/main/plugins/github-and-git/skills/githubbing

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add https://llmmart.ai/marketplace.json && claude plugin install oaustegard-claude-skills@llmmart

Git git clone https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills.git

The skills CLI installs just this skill, for any of its supported agents. Claude Code installs the whole oaustegard/claude-skills collection as a plugin from our marketplace. Git is the plain clone.

Skill manifest

Githubbing

Install and use GitHub CLI (gh) for authenticated GitHub operations.

1. Install

bash /path/to/githubbing/scripts/install-gh.sh

2. Configure Authentication

gh reads tokens from GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN environment variables.

from configuring import get_env
import os

token = get_env("GH_TOKEN") or get_env("GITHUB_TOKEN")
if token:
    os.environ["GH_TOKEN"] = token

3. Verify

gh auth status

Files (claude-skills)

scripts

install-gh.sh 959 B

#!/bin/bash
# Install GitHub CLI (gh) using official method
# https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md

set -e

# Skip install if gh is already available
if command -v gh >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "gh $(gh --version | head -1 | awk '{print $3}') already installed"
    exit 0
fi

mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings
out=$(mktemp)
wget -nv -O"$out" https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
cat "$out" | tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg

mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/sources.list.d
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" \
    | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null

apt update -qq 2>/dev/null || true
apt install gh -y -qq

echo "gh $(gh --version | head -1 | awk '{print $3}') installed successfully"

CHANGELOG.md 1.1 KB

# githubbing - Changelog

All notable changes to the `githubbing` skill are documented in this file. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).

## [1.2.0] - 2026-08-25

### Added

- add mapping-features skill for behavioral web app documentation (#432)

### Other

- top skills: separate by omission, and correct the guidance that said otherwise (#777)
- Remove _MAP.md files, direct agents to tree-sitting for code navigation (#545)
- Update subagent models: default to Sonnet 4.6, add Haiku 4.5 support

## [1.1.2] - 2026-02-28

### Added

- Add priority-based ordering and dynamic ops topics (v3.6.0)

### Fixed

- skip gh install when already available (#245)

## [1.1.2] - 2026-02-28

### Fixed

- Skip gh installation when already available, avoiding ~30s redundant apt-get

## [1.1.1] - 2026-01-28

### Other

- Update version from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 in SKILL.md
- Modify apt update to ignore errors

## [1.1.0] - 2026-01-28

### Added

- Add official gh install script and simplify SKILL.md
- Add optional authentication for personalized feeds

## [1.0.0] - 2026-01-22

### Other

- Add githubbing skill for gh CLI usage

SKILL.md 1 KB

---
name: githubbing
description: >-
  Installs and authenticates the GitHub CLI (gh) in a Claude.ai container,
  then runs gh commands against it. Use for "install gh", "gh auth", "create
  an issue or PR from the CLI", "gh is not authenticated", or any GitHub
  operation you want to issue as a gh command rather than a raw API call.
  This skill is the transport rather than the analysis. To understand what a
  repository does or contains, use exploring-codebases; to add a repo to the
  session, accessing-github-repos.
metadata:
  version: 1.2.0
  requires: configuring
---

# Githubbing

Install and use GitHub CLI (`gh`) for authenticated GitHub operations.

## 1. Install

```bash
bash /path/to/githubbing/scripts/install-gh.sh
```

## 2. Configure Authentication

`gh` reads tokens from `GH_TOKEN` or `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variables.

```python
from configuring import get_env
import os

token = get_env("GH_TOKEN") or get_env("GITHUB_TOKEN")
if token:
    os.environ["GH_TOKEN"] = token
```

## 3. Verify

```bash
gh auth status
```