Show HN: Skill to stop AI agents from retry-looping during GitHub outages

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 0 Star 0 BranchesTags Open more actions menu Folders and files NameName Last commit message Last commit date Latest commit History 1 Commit 1 Commit .github/workflows .github/workflows LICENSE LICENSE README.md README.md SKILL.md SKILL.md Repository files navigation An Agent Skill that stops AI coding agents from looping on retries when a GitHub-related command fails — by checking githubstatus.com first to see whether the failure is actually GitHub's fault. Why GitHub outages (Actions runners down, PRs failing to sync/merge, API 5xx errors) often look like local bugs. An agent that just keeps retrying a git push, gh command, or Actions re-run can burn a lot of time chasing a problem that isn't there. This skill checks GitHub's status API before a second retry, and tells the agent (and you) whether to keep debugging locally or just wait out an outage. Install npx skills add tbille/check-github-status What it does On any GitHub-related failure (git push/pull/fetch/clone, gh CLI errors, Actions failures, PRs that won't merge, GitHub API errors), it runs: curl -s https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/summary.json and uses the response to decide: GitHub is degraded → stop retrying, report the affected component/incident, suggest waiting. GitHub is fine → say so, and move on to local causes (auth, rate limits, workflow syntax, etc.). See SKILL.md for the full instructions. License MIT MIT license Activity Stars 0 stars Watchers 0 watching Forks 0 forks Report repository