GitHub

GitHub skill provides comprehensive GitHub API access for your Claude agent, covering the full software development lifecycle. Manage repositories — create, clone metadata, set topics and descriptions, configure branch protection rules. Handle issues — create, assign, label, comment, close, and search across repos. Work with pull requests — open PRs, request reviews, add comments on specific code lines, approve or request changes, and merge with configurable strategies.

Code review automation is a standout feature: your agent can read a PR's diff, analyze changed files for common issues, post inline comments on specific lines, and summarize the overall change for reviewers. Release management includes creating tags, drafting release notes from commit history, and publishing releases with attached assets.

Repository analytics are fully accessible: commit history with diffs, contributor statistics, code frequency graphs, and traffic data. The skill reads file contents from any branch or commit, enabling your agent to answer questions about the codebase or generate documentation from source code. GitHub Actions workflow files can be triggered manually via the API.

Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token with appropriate scopes (the skill lists minimum required scopes in its documentation). Supports both GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server. Development teams use this skill to automate code review workflows, generate weekly engineering digests, manage issue backlogs, and coordinate releases across multiple repositories.

Installation

clawhub install github-skill

Install: clawhub install github-skill