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GitHub Labels Query

List GitHub repository labels with per_page pagination and name filtering support.

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GitHub Labels Query Skill

List GitHub repository labels with efficient pagination using the --per-page flag.

Usage

Use this script to list labels from any repository with controlled page sizes.

Basic Usage

./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw
# Returns 10 labels (default per_page=10)

Pagination

# Get the first label only
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --per-page 1

# Get 25 labels starting from page 2
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --per-page 25 --page 2

Filtering by name

# Only labels whose name contains "bug" (case-insensitive)
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --name-filter bug

When --name-filter is set, all labels are fetched and filtered, then --per-page/--page are applied to the filtered results.

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Default	Description
`--owner`	Yes	-	Repository owner (username or organization)
`--repo`	Yes	-	Repository name
`--per-page`	No	10	Results per page (1–100)
`--page`	No	1	Page number
`--name-filter`	No	-	Case-insensitive substring filter on the label name

Output

Returns JSON with the following fields:

{
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 12345,
      "node_id": "LA_...",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "color": "d73a4a",
      "default": true,
      "description": "Something isn't working"
    }
  ],
  "item_count": 10,
  "per_page": 10,
  "page": 1
}

Source

Calls the GitHub REST API: GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels?per_page={n}&page={n}

When --name-filter is used, the script pages through all labels (--paginate) before filtering and slicing locally.

Credited

This skill is installed in github/gh-aw — in use here rather than published from here — so there is no install command for it on this page.

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Source

github.com/github/gh-aw, branch main, last pushed 24 September 2026.

Licence

MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

54 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 4 distinct layouts observed: .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/skills/*/SKILL.md, .squad/*/skill.md, SKILL.md (repo root).

Authorship

27 of 54 skills are installed into the repository rather than published from it. They are shelved in the closing “Credited skills” part and remain the work of their own authors. A skill counts as credited when its only copy lives under one agent’s dot directory; visible directories, per-agent mirror sets, and skills installable from this repository on skills.sh all count as published.

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Spec compliance

4 editorial notes across 3 of 54 skills. They are printed in the margin of each skill rather than as errors here.

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Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /github/gh-aw.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

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Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

GitHub Labels Query Skill

List GitHub repository labels with efficient pagination using the --per-page flag.

Usage

Use this script to list labels from any repository with controlled page sizes.

Basic Usage

./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw
# Returns 10 labels (default per_page=10)

Pagination

# Get the first label only
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --per-page 1

# Get 25 labels starting from page 2
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --per-page 25 --page 2

Filtering by name

# Only labels whose name contains "bug" (case-insensitive)
./query-labels.sh --owner github --repo gh-aw --name-filter bug

When --name-filter is set, all labels are fetched and filtered, then --per-page/--page are applied to the filtered results.

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Default	Description
`--owner`	Yes	-	Repository owner (username or organization)
`--repo`	Yes	-	Repository name
`--per-page`	No	10	Results per page (1–100)
`--page`	No	1	Page number
`--name-filter`	No	-	Case-insensitive substring filter on the label name

Output

Returns JSON with the following fields:

{
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 12345,
      "node_id": "LA_...",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "color": "d73a4a",
      "default": true,
      "description": "Something isn't working"
    }
  ],
  "item_count": 10,
  "per_page": 10,
  "page": 1
}

Source

Calls the GitHub REST API: GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels?per_page={n}&page={n}

When --name-filter is used, the script pages through all labels (--paginate) before filtering and slicing locally.

GitHub Labels Query

GitHub Labels Query Skill

Usage

Basic Usage

Filtering by name

Parameters

Output

Source

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GitHub Labels Query

GitHub Labels Query Skill

Usage

Basic Usage

Filtering by name

Parameters

Output

Source

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