setup-github

84 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills (GitHub) · coding · 35 stars · scanned at commit 6a0180a

Install Git and the GitHub CLI (gh) on macOS, Linux or Windows, sign the user in to GitHub through the browser and set up their Git name and email, so the agent can create repos and push. Use when git or gh is missing, the user wants to connect GitHub, or gh auth status fails.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Sends data to these websites: raw.githubusercontent.com, github.com

The author does not mention this.

Found in 4 places.

skills/setup-github/SKILL.md, line 8If you got this skill from a link instead of a local folder, install nothing else from the repo: download a file it links only when a step needs it, with `curl
skills/setup-github/scripts/install-gh.sh, line 56TAG="$(curl -fsSI https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/latest | grep -i '^location:' | sed 's|.*/tag/||' | tr -d '\r\n')"
skills/setup-github/scripts/install-gh.sh, line 64curl -fsSL "$BASE/gh_${VERSION}_macOS_${CPU}.zip" -o "$TMP/gh.zip"

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skills/setup-github/scripts/install-gh.sh, line 67curl -fsSL "$BASE/gh_${VERSION}_linux_${CPU}.tar.gz" -o "$TMP/gh.tar.gz"

Downloads and installs other software

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 2 places.

skills/setup-github/SKILL.md, line 13- Linux: if Git is missing, installing it needs the user's password, so ask them to run `sudo apt install -y git` (or `sudo dnf install -y git`) in their own te
skills/setup-github/scripts/install-gh.sh, line 51brew install gh

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 1 place.

skills/setup-github/SKILL.md, line 20gh auth login --hostname github.com --git-protocol https --web --skip-ssh-key < /dev/null > <scratch>/gh-login.txt 2>&1

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'setup-github' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'setup-github' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named setup-github already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '6a0180aa7d89c7b572ecc7cbc47ed1d42a6ead62' -- 'skills/setup-github' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/setup-github' ~/.agents/skills/'setup-github' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'setup-github' ~/.claude/skills/'setup-github' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`6a0180a`	84
2026-11-07	`57b7962`	84