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Searches GitHub project history for community discussions and issue resolutions.

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/search-github && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/5522" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/search-github && rm skill.zip

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Activation

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Search GitHub issues, discussions, and PRs for content related to a topic
73 charsno explicit “when” trigger
Beginner

Key capabilities

  • Search GitHub issues
  • Search GitHub discussions
  • Search GitHub pull requests

How it works

The skill delegates the search task to a specialized subagent that queries the GitHub API.

Inputs & outputs

You give it
Search topic
You get back
Relevant GitHub content

When to use search-github

  • Checking for existing bug reports on a library
  • Finding community discussions on specific features
  • Reviewing PRs for usage examples

About this skill

GitHub Search

Use the github-searcher subagent to search GitHub for content related to: $ARGUMENTS

Call the Task tool with:

  • subagent_type: "github-searcher"
  • mode: "bypassPermissions"
  • prompt: the search topic

Report the results back to the user exactly as returned by the agent.

When not to use it

  • Searching non-GitHub repositories
  • Complex code analysis

Prerequisites

GitHub access

Limitations

  • Limited to GitHub content

How it compares

It provides a focused search interface for GitHub-specific content rather than general web search.

Compared to similar skills

search-github side by side with the closest alternatives in the catalog.

SkillInstallsUpdatedSafetyDifficulty
search-github (this skill)14moNo flagsBeginner
fact-check77moReviewIntermediate
agent-researcher46moReviewIntermediate
research-engineer26moNo flagsAdvanced

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