Connect Gist to your AI agent

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GitHub Gist is a service provided by GitHub that allows users to share code snippets, notes, and other text-based content. It supports both public and private gists, enabling easy sharing and collaboration.

We set up the connection using your own Gist account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.

Book a setup call → See pricing
Actions

What your agent can do in Gist

Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around Gist could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.

  • Check Gist Star Check if the authenticated user has starred a specific gist. Returns True if the gist is starred, False if not starred or if the gist doesn't exist. This is a read-only, idempotent operation that requires authentication…
  • Create Gist Tool to create a new gist with one or more files. Use when you need to create a code snippet or text file to share. Note: Do not name your files 'gistfile' with a numerical suffix.
  • Create Gist Comment Tool to create a comment on a gist. Use when you need to add a comment to an existing gist.
  • Delete Gist Tool to delete a gist. Use when you have a gist_id and want to permanently remove that gist. Example prompt: "Delete gist 'aa5a315d61ae9438b18d'".
  • Delete Gist Comment Tool to delete a comment on a gist. Use when you have both the gist_id and comment_id and want to remove that comment. Example prompt: "Delete comment 42 from gist 'aa5a315d61ae9438b18d'".
  • Fork Gist Tool to fork a gist. Use when you need to create a copy of an existing gist under your own account.
  • Get Gist Tool to retrieve a specific gist by its ID. Use when you have a gist_id and need complete gist details.
  • Get Gist Comment Tool to get a specific comment on a gist. Use when you need to retrieve details of a particular comment given gist_id and comment_id.
  • Get Gist Revision Tool to retrieve a specific gist revision. Use when you need details of a past state for an existing gist by commit SHA.
  • List Gist Comments Tool to list comments on a gist. Use after confirming the gist_id to retrieve comments for a specific gist. Example: 'List comments for gist abc123'.
  • List Gist Commits Tool to list the commit history of a gist. Use after you have the gist ID to review its revisions.
  • List Gist Forks Tool to list forks of a gist. Use after obtaining a gist_id to retrieve all forks for the gist.
  • List Gists Tool to list the authenticated user's gists or all public gists if called anonymously. Use after setting a valid GitHub token in headers.
  • List Public Gists Tool to list public gists sorted by most recently updated. Use when you need to discover recent public gists. Note: with pagination, you can fetch up to 3000 gists.
  • List Starred Gists Tool to list the authenticated user's starred gists. Use when you need to retrieve all gists the user has starred.
  • List User Gists Tool to list public gists for a specified GitHub user. Use when you have a username and need their gists.
  • Star a Gist Star a GitHub gist. This operation is idempotent and will succeed even if the gist is already starred.
  • Unstar a Gist Unstar a GitHub gist. This operation is idempotent and will succeed even if the gist is not currently starred.
  • Update Gist Tool to update a gist's description and files. Use when you need to modify gist content, rename files, or delete files from a gist.
  • Update Gist Comment Tool to update a Gist comment. Updates an existing comment on a gist. You must be the author of the comment to update it.
Setup

How we connect it

  1. 1

    Connect your account

    You create a key in Gist, a key you create and control, and paste it in once. It lives in a secrets store on your server, not with us.

  2. 2

    Set the guardrails

    Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.

  3. 3

    We keep it running

    Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.

FAQ

Gist questions, answered.

With a key you create and control. You paste it in once, it is stored in a secrets store on your server, permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, and you can revoke it at any time.
The actions Gist's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.

Ready to put Gist to work?

Tell us what your team runs on. We set up the connection, secure it, and your agent takes it from there.

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