Agent-Skills.md

Agent Skills: GitHub Labels

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UncategorizedID: laurigates/claude-plugins/github-labels

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laurigates/claude-plugins
laurigatesLicense: MIT
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pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins/tree/HEAD/git-plugin/skills/github-labels

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Skill Metadata

Name
github-labels
Description
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GitHub Labels

Reference for discovering and applying labels to GitHub PRs and issues.

When to Use This Skill

| Use this skill when... | Use something else when... | |------------------------|---------------------------| | Listing available labels in a repo | Creating or managing milestones | | Adding or removing labels on PRs/issues | Managing GitHub Projects boards | | Creating new labels with colors | Bulk-editing many issues at once | | Inheriting labels from issue to PR | Setting PR reviewers or assignees |

Discovering Available Labels

# List all labels with details
gh label list --json name,description,color --limit 50

# Search for specific labels
gh label list --search "bug"

# Output as simple list
gh label list --json name -q '.[].name'

Adding Labels to PRs

# Single label
gh pr create --label "bug"

# Multiple labels (repeat flag)
gh pr create --label "bug" --label "priority:high"

# Comma-separated
gh pr create --label "bug,priority:high"

# Add to existing PR
gh pr edit 123 --add-label "ready-for-review"

Adding Labels to Issues

# Create with labels
gh issue create --label "bug,needs-triage"

# Add to existing issue
gh issue edit 123 --add-label "in-progress"

# Remove label
gh issue edit 123 --remove-label "needs-triage"

Common Label Categories

| Category | Examples | |----------|----------| | Type | bug, feature, enhancement, documentation, chore | | Priority | priority:critical, priority:high, priority:medium, priority:low | | Status | needs-triage, in-progress, blocked, ready-for-review | | Area | frontend, backend, infrastructure, testing, ci-cd |

Label Inheritance Pattern

When creating a PR from an issue:

  1. Read issue labels via gh issue view N --json labels
  2. Apply same labels to PR: gh pr create --label "label1,label2"

This maintains traceability and consistent categorization.

Agentic Optimizations

| Context | Command | |---------|---------| | List all labels (machine-readable) | gh label list --json name,description,color --limit 50 | | Get label names only | gh label list --json name -q '.[].name' | | Add label to PR silently | gh pr edit $PR --add-label "label" | | Check current issue labels | gh issue view $ISSUE --json labels -q '.labels[].name' | | Inherit labels from issue to PR | gh issue view $ISSUE --json labels -q '[.labels[].name] | join(",")' | xargs -I{} gh pr edit $PR --add-label {} |