# github-automation

A Claude skill that walks through GitHub work over Rube MCP: issues, pull requests, branches, code search and CI/CD.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code · 63 installs
- Author: davila7
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/workflow-automation/github-automation
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/github-automation

## What it does

This skill lays out the Composio tool sequences for GitHub. Filing and triaging issues, handling pull requests, creating branches, changing repository settings, searching code and commits, reading workflow and deployment status — all of it runs through Rube MCP instead of the `gh` CLI.

Setup comes first. Add `https://rube.app/mcp` as an MCP server in your client config; no API keys are involved. Then call `RUBE_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS` with the `github` toolkit and finish OAuth through the link you get back. Nothing runs until that connection reads ACTIVE. Tool schemas shift, so the skill insists on calling `RUBE_SEARCH_TOOLS` before anything else.

A few traps are worth knowing. `GITHUB_LIST_REPOSITORY_ISSUES` returns pull requests alongside issues, so check the `pull_request` field. Labels and assignees get dropped without a warning when the account lacks push access. Merging is gated on your explicit confirmation, and `GITHUB_CREATE_A_REFERENCE` only makes new refs — existing ones need `GITHUB_UPDATE_A_REFERENCE`.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **claude-code-templates**
```bash
npx claude-code-templates@latest --skill workflow-automation/github-automation
```

2. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill github-automation -a claude-code
```

3. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/github-automation/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/github-automation/

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/github-automation/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/github-automation/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install davila7/claude-code-templates github-automation
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/github-automation/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates --path cli-tool/components/skills/workflow-automation/github-automation
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/github-automation/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/workflow-automation/github-automation

## When to use it
- open an issue with labels and assignees
- check CI status before merging a pull request
- find a file or commit across repositories
- branch off a specific commit SHA
- trigger a workflow by hand with a dispatch event

## Example prompts
- Open an issue in `owner/repo` about the failing build and label it `bug`
- List the open pull requests and tell me whether CI passes on them
- Search GitHub code for every `TODO` in the repo

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From the same set: [davila7/claude-code-templates](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/by/davila7/claude-code-templates.md) — 361 cards

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