gh-cli

When to Use

• Working with GitHub repositories, pull requests, issues, releases, or raw file URLs.
• You need authenticated access to private repositories or higher API rate limits.
• You are about to use

  curl

  ,

  wget

  , or unauthenticated web fetches against GitHub.

When NOT to Use

• The target is not GitHub.
• Plain local git operations already solve the task.

Guidance

gh

• Prefer

  gh repo view

  ,

  gh pr view

  ,

  gh pr list

  ,

  gh issue view

  , and

  gh api

  over unauthenticated

  curl

  or

  wget

  .
• Prefer cloning a repository and reading files locally over fetching

  raw.githubusercontent.com

  blobs directly.
• Avoid using GitHub API

  /contents/

  endpoints as a substitute for cloning and reading repository files.

gh repo view owner/repo
gh pr view 123 --repo owner/repo
gh api repos/owner/repo/pulls

• plugins/gh-cli/README.md

• plugins/gh-cli/hooks/