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

Prefer the authenticated gh CLI over raw HTTP fetches for GitHub content. In particular:

• 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 endpoints as a substitute for cloning and reading repository files.