gist-post

Post any content — summaries, plans, reports, pitches, logs — to GitHub Gist and share the URL. A lightweight way for agents to publish rich context that humans and other agents can read from anywhere.

Why Gists?

Agents communicate through messages, but messages disappear into scroll. A gist is:

• Persistent — stays at a stable URL
• Readable by anyone — no auth required for public gists
• Markdown-rendered — GitHub renders it beautifully
• Shareable — paste the URL anywhere

When an agent needs to hand off context to a human, another agent, or a future session — a gist beats a wall of chat text.

Setup

You need a GitHub Personal Access Token scoped to gist, set as GITHUB_TOKEN in your environment. Ask your agent to walk you through creating one if you haven't already.

How to Post a Gist

Use the exec tool to call gh gist create:

gh gist create --public --desc "DESCRIPTION" --filename "FILENAME.md" - << 'EOF'
# Your content here

Supports **markdown** formatting.
EOF

Use --secret instead of --public if the content shouldn't be publicly indexed.

The command returns the gist URL on success:

✓ Created public gist FILENAME.md
https://gist.github.com/USERNAME/HASH

Workflow

1. Prepare content — write your markdown
2. Choose visibility — --public or --secret
3. Post it — run gh gist create via exec
4. Return the URL — share it in the conversation, send it to another agent, or log it

Tips

• Use .md extension in --filename so GitHub renders markdown
• Write a meaningful --desc — it's searchable
• Update an existing gist: gh gist edit GIST_ID
• List your gists: gh gist list

Gists: the simplest way for a claw to leave a note the world can read.