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GitHub enhanced operations skill. Provides unified context collection and publishing commands for PR/issue workflows.

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GHX Skill

ghx is the shared GitHub operations layer used by higher-level skills.

It combines two capabilities:

  • Context collection (issue/PR metadata, comments, diffs, threads, checks)
  • Publishing (PR creation/updates, comments, review replies, inline review posting)

Environment Variables

  • GITHUB_OUTPUT_DIR: artifact directory (caller-provided; defaults to a temporary directory when unset)
  • GITHUB_CONTEXT_DIR: context directory (default ${GITHUB_OUTPUT_DIR}/github-context)
  • GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN: GitHub token for gh
  • DRY_RUN: preview mode (true|false)

Commands

Use scripts/ghx.sh as the primary entrypoint.

Contract Boundary

  • Public capability contract (for other skills): call ghx.sh commands and depend on stable output artifacts (for example publish-results.json).
  • Internal implementation contract (within ghx): files like publish-intent.json and action schema details are internal to ghx and may evolve.
  • Other skills should describe desired publish outcomes, not hardcode ghx internal action schemas.

Context

scripts/ghx.sh context collect holon-run/holon#123
scripts/ghx.sh context collect 123 holon-run/holon

Publish from intent (ghx-internal / advanced)

scripts/ghx.sh intent run --intent=${GITHUB_OUTPUT_DIR}/publish-intent.json

Direct publish commands

scripts/ghx.sh review publish --pr=holon-run/holon#123 --body-file=review.md --comments-file=review.json
scripts/ghx.sh pr create --repo=holon-run/holon --title="Title" --body-file=summary.md --head=feature/x --base=main
scripts/ghx.sh pr update --pr=holon-run/holon#123 --title="New title" --body-file=summary.md
scripts/ghx.sh pr comment --pr=holon-run/holon#123 --body-file=summary.md

Output Contract

Context artifacts

Under ${GITHUB_CONTEXT_DIR}:

  • github/pr.json or github/issue.json
  • github/comments.json
  • Optional: github/pr.diff, github/files.json, github/review_threads.json, github/check_runs.json, github/commits.json
  • manifest.json

Publish artifacts

Under ${GITHUB_OUTPUT_DIR}:

  • publish-results.json

Notes

  • ghx is capability-oriented: upper-level skills should focus on final outputs and outcomes.
  • Prefer ghx commands for multi-step or error-prone GitHub operations.
  • Prefer direct capability commands (pr comment, review publish) from external skills.
  • For multi-reply review workflows, use intent run with reply_review actions in publish-intent.json.