Agent Session CLI

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Agent Session CLI is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by github in gh-aw.

4.9K stars495 forkson github/gh-awAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Agent Session CLI

Copy Agent Session CLI into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/github/gh-aw/tree/main/.github/skills/gh-agent-session ~/.claude/skills/gh-agent-session

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/github/gh-aw.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .github/skills/gh-agent-session/SKILL.md in github/gh-aw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gh-agent-session
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Agent Session CLI does

Agent Session CLI uses the gh agent-session command to inspect and manage GitHub Copilot coding agent sessions, including creating tasks from natural language instructions, listing, viewing, and updating them.

Agent Session CLI is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Agent Session CLI comes from a repository tagged actions, cai, ci, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

GitHub CLI Agent Session Extension

The gh agent-task extension creates GitHub Copilot coding agent sessions from the CLI. A session is a GitHub issue that triggers automated code changes from natural language instructions.

Repository: https://github.com/github/agent-task (internal GitHub extension)

Overview

Agent sessions are GitHub issues that:

Contain natural language instructions for code changes
Trigger GitHub Copilot to autonomously execute the task
Create pull requests with the implemented changes
Provide a workflow for reviewing and merging automated code modifications

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Agent Session CLI

What else does github publish alongside Agent Session CLI?
Agent Session CLI is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/gh-aw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWF Release Integrator, Agent Task CLI and Agentic Workflows. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agent Session CLI does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/gh-aw page.
How does Agent Session CLI compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Agent Session CLI ranks #510 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Agent Session CLI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.