---name: gh-clidescription: Enforces authenticated gh CLI workflows over unauthenticated curl, WebFetch, and MCP fetch patterns. Use when working with GitHub URLs, API access, pull requests, or issues.---

gh-cli

When to Use

• Working with GitHub repositories, pull requests, issues, releases, or raw file URLs.
• You need authenticated access to private repositories or higher API rate limits.
• You are about to use curl, wget, WebFetch, or an MCP fetch tool against GitHub.

When NOT to Use

• The target is not GitHub.
• Plain local git operations already solve the task.

Guidance

Prefer the authenticated gh CLI over raw HTTP fetches for GitHub content. In particular:

• Prefer gh repo view, gh pr view, gh pr list, gh issue view, and gh api over unauthenticated curl or wget.
• Prefer cloning a repository and reading files locally over fetching raw.githubusercontent.com blobs directly.
• Avoid using GitHub API /contents/ endpoints as a substitute for cloning and reading repository files.

Examples:

gh repo view owner/repo
gh pr view 123 --repo owner/repo
gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls

For the hook implementation, see:

• plugins/gh-cli/README.md
• plugins/gh-cli/hooks/