Labels Query

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Labels Query is an Automation 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 Labels Query

Copy Labels Query 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/github-labels-query ~/.claude/skills/github-labels-query

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/github-labels-query/SKILL.md in github/gh-aw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/github-labels-query
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Labels Query does

Labels Query lists GitHub repository labels with per_page pagination and name filtering support. Use it to query labels from any GitHub repository with controlled page sizes and case-insensitive name filtering.

Labels Query is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Labels Query comes from a repository tagged actions, cai, ci, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

./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

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

Frequently asked about Labels Query

What else does github publish alongside Labels Query?
Labels Query 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 Labels Query 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 Labels Query compare to other Automation skills?
Labels Query ranks #296 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Labels Query against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.