GitHub Assistant

Create issues, review pull requests and manage GitHub workflows

Dev Tools⚠ ReviewIntermediatev1.0.0
Last verified:2026-06-01
Beta Skill

Review write permissions before enabling automation on production repositories.

About

Connects Hermes to GitHub so it can triage issues, open pull requests, review code and check workflow status. Ideal for developer agents that need to coordinate work in real repositories.

Use Cases

  • Triage issues and label them by priority or topic
  • Open pull requests and keep implementation notes in GitHub
  • Check workflow status and summarize CI failures for the team

What GitHub Assistant can access

Broad access

Read this skill's SKILL.md in full before installing it. Run it against a disposable host or test account first, and give it the narrowest credentials that still work.

  • Can make changes that are hard to undo

    The listing carries an explicit maintainer warning. Test this against something disposable before pointing it at anything you care about.

    Listing carries a maintainer warning: "Review write permissions before enabling automation on production repositories."

  • Needs your credentials

    You must supply secrets for this skill to work. A skill with a valid key can do anything that key permits, so scope each one as narrowly as the provider allows and never reuse an admin key.

    Declares 1 required credential: GITHUB_TOKEN

These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.

Installing GitHub Assistant on Hermes Agent

Hermes skills are on-demand knowledge documents stored in hermes/skills/, which is the single source of truth. Bundled skills are copied there on a fresh install, and hub-installed and agent-created skills land there too. Every installed skill automatically becomes a slash command, so a skill named plan is invoked with /plan.

  1. 1

    Search for the skill

    hermes skills search github

    Add --source to widen the search: official for curated skills, skills-sh for the public skills.sh directory, browse-sh for site-specific browser automation, or well-known to point Hermes at a site publishing its own skill index.

  2. 2

    Inspect it before installing

    hermes skills inspect official/<category>/github

    inspect shows the skill's contents and metadata. Use the fully qualified identifier that search returned, which includes its source and category.

  3. 3

    Install it

    hermes skills install official/<category>/github

    Identifiers are source-qualified, for example official/migration/openclaw-migration or skills-sh/anthropics/skills/pdf. You can also install straight from a URL that serves a SKILL.md. --force overrides non-dangerous policy blocks but will not override a dangerous scan verdict.

  4. 4

    Use it as a slash command

    /github

    Installed skills become slash commands in any chat session. Run hermes skills list to see everything available, or /skills from inside a session.

Commands follow the official Hermes Agent documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.

Requirements

API Keys & Credentials

GITHUB_TOKEN

Version & Updates

Current Version
1.0.0
Last Updated
2026-06-01

Safety & verification

Needs review
Not yet independently confirmed. Read the SKILL.md before running it on a Hermes Agent install you care about.

How Hermes Agent screens skills

Hermes checks third-party and community skills against policy before installing, and --force will not override a verdict it considers dangerous. Because Hermes can also write its own skills at runtime, review what the Curator has kept periodically with hermes skills list.

Review before installing

Read this skill's SKILL.md before installing it, so you know what commands it runs and which credentials it reads.

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