GitHub CLI

ghGit & collaborationBy cli ↗

GitHub repository ↗Read documentation ↗

Inspect repositories, issues, and pull requests from the terminal.

For your agent

Use GitHub commands and structured output to work with repository metadata and review workflows.

Agent/AI workflow support: Documented (source list)

Example command

gh repo view --json name,description,stargazerCount

Run after following the project’s setup instructions. Local files, credentials, or a connected service may be required.

What it does

Repository inspection
Pull requests and issues
JSON output

Homebrew installs

gh ↗

Explicitly requested installation events

30 days: 259,080
90 days: 836,319
365 days: 2,976,502

From Homebrew installations that report analytics. Includes package variants; counts are not unique users.

Checked Sep 10, 2026. Source dated Sep 10, 2026. How installs are counted ↗

Repository activity

Commits per week · GitHub snapshot

656 commits over 12 weeks

Tap, hover, or use the arrow keys to inspect weekly commits. The latest week may be incomplete.

Commands and capabilities are described from the project documentation. Repository statistics cover cli/cli, which may contain more than the CLI. Listing a tool does not mean every command has been tested with every agent.