GH-AW Developer

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GH-AW Developer is a Quality 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 GH-AW Developer

Copy GH-AW Developer 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/developer ~/.claude/skills/developer

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/developer/SKILL.md in github/gh-aw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/developer
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What GH-AW Developer does

GH-AW Developer provides core rules and coding conventions for making changes to gh-aw, including validation checkpoints, capitalization rules, and lazy-loading sub-skills.

GH-AW Developer is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. GH-AW Developer comes from a repository tagged actions, cai, ci, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Developer Instructions

Use this reference for gh-aw technical specs and development guidelines across code organization, validation, security, and implementation patterns.

Operational Command Playbook
Capitalization Guidelines
Sub-Skills

Operational Command Playbook

Use this section for the detailed day-to-day command flow that was intentionally removed from AGENTS.md to keep first-run ambient context small.

Validation checkpoints

Run validation in tiers — catch compile errors early, defer slow tests to the final pass only.

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

Frequently asked about GH-AW Developer

What else does github publish alongside GH-AW Developer?
GH-AW Developer 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 Session CLI and Agent Task CLI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way GH-AW Developer 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 GH-AW Developer compare to other Quality skills?
GH-AW Developer ranks #310 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 GH-AW Developer against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.