GitHub CLI Coding Flow

Use gh subcommands for all GitHub operations. Subcommands handle pagination, error formatting, and repo detection automatically.

When to Use

• Working with GitHub pull requests (create, review, merge, comment)
• Managing issues (create, view, comment, close, link to PRs)
• Checking CI/Actions status (runs, checks, workflow monitoring)
• Discovering workflows, searching code/commits, managing labels

Critical Rule

Prefer gh subcommands over raw gh api when a subcommand exists. Subcommands handle pagination, error formatting, and repo detection automatically. Only use gh api for operations not covered by subcommands (line-specific PR comments, review thread resolution, GraphQL queries).

Read-Only Operations