Facilitates management of GitHub issues, milestones, and releases, including publishing packages to npm.

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Activation

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Use when fetching, creating, or managing GitHub milestones, issues, or releases — or publishing the @chimera-engine/* packages to npm. How: load the matching sub-skill (fetch-issue, list-issues, create-issue, create-milestone, bootstrap-milestone, close-issue, create-release, publish-packages).
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Intermediate

Key capabilities

  • Fetch and manage GitHub issues and milestones
  • Create versioned releases
  • Publish packages to npm
  • Execute sub-skills for validated procedures

How it works

The skill acts as a meta-controller that loads independent sub-skills to perform specific GitHub API operations based on the requested operation type.

Inputs & outputs

You give it
Operation type and repository context
You get back
GitHub resource state or published package

When to use github

  • Create new project milestones
  • Fetch and update issue statuses
  • Cut a new versioned release

About github

Connects to GitHub to perform administrative tasks like issue tracking and release management. It supports automated workflows for project milestones and package distribution.

Use when fetching, creating, or managing GitHub milestones, issues, or releases — or publishing the @chimera-engine/* packages to npm. How: load the matching sub-skill (fetch-issue, list-issues, create-issue, create-milestone, bootstrap-milestone, close-issue, create-release, publish-packages).

When not to use it

  • Closing parent feature issues directly
  • Re-releasing existing tags without user confirmation

Prerequisites

GitHub CLI (gh)Authenticated GitHub sessionGH_REPO environment variable

Limitations

  • Requires manual resolution of numeric IDs for milestones
  • Token scope errors require manual authentication refresh

How it compares

Unlike manual CLI usage, this skill enforces validated procedures through modular sub-skills and specific error-handling logic.

Compared to similar skills

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SkillInstallsUpdatedSafetyDifficulty
github (this skill)02moReviewIntermediate
resolve-conflicts819moReviewIntermediate
openspec-onboard107moReviewBeginner
codex-cli-bridge910moReviewIntermediate

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