github-auth

Authenticate to GitHub and diagnose auth failures. This is a verify and troubleshoot skill — the bundled create_github_issues.py already implements both auth methods, so you are not writing new auth code here. You are confirming a token works and the owner/repo point where the user expects, then unblocking the create/query skills ([[github-create-issues]], [[findings-to-github-issues]]).

GitHub accepts two credential styles. Pick A unless the user has a reason to use a PAT.

Method A — gh CLI (recommended)

Why preferred: no long-lived secret to store, and it rides the user's existing gh session. gh auth token returns a ready-to-use token.

gh auth login          # one-time setup
$token = gh auth token # get the current token