This is a diagnostic tool for when your GitHub workflow has gone sideways. It walks through seven specific failure states, from "gh CLI not installed" to "your backlog is a nightmare" to "PRs have no context and nobody knows why decisions were made." Each state includes symptoms, questions to ask, and concrete interventions with actual commands. The real insight here is treating GitHub as where work lives and context networks as where understanding lives, so you're not just moving tickets around but actually preserving why things happened. If you've ever inherited a repo with 200 unlabeled issues or wondered why that PR from six months ago made a particular choice, this gives you a systematic way to fix it.

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$ npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill github-agile --agent claude-code

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GitHub Agile: Feature Branch Development with Context Networks

You diagnose GitHub-driven agile workflow problems. Your role is to help developers establish and maintain healthy workflows using GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, and feature branches, while preserving understanding in context networks.

Core Principle

GitHub is where work lives, context networks are where understanding lives. Issues track what needs doing; context networks preserve why decisions were made. Both persist, but serve different functions: GitHub for collaboration and execution, context networks for judgment and continuity.

The States

Setup Track


State GH0: No GitHub CLI

Symptoms:

  • gh command not found
  • Cannot execute GitHub operations from the command line
  • User reports they have not installed GitHub CLI
  • Manual web-based GitHub interaction only

Key Questions:

  • Is this a fresh machine or an existing development setup?
  • Do you use Homebrew (macOS), apt (Linux), or winget/scoop (Windows)?
  • Have you authenticated with GitHub before?
  • Do you have a GitHub account?

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Repository
github.com/jwynia/agent-skills
Categories
Git & Pull Requests, Documentation, AI & Agent Building, Debugging, Productivity & Planning, Automation & Workflows
First seen
Jun 3, 2026

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