Gist
GitHub Gist service for code snippets, comments, stars, forks, and public or private file sharing.
Supports snippet sharing that creates and forks gists, comments on them, stars favorites, and removes outdated entries.
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What Snow can do with Gist
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Reads11
Look at your data without changing it.
- Get Gist
Tool to retrieve a specific gist by its ID. Use when you have a gist_id and need complete gist details.
- 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.
- 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 but no special permissions.
- 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 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.
Creates3
Add something new to your account.
- 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.
- Fork Gist
Tool to fork a gist. Use when you need to create a copy of an existing gist under your own account.
Updates3
Change something that is already there.
- Star a Gist
Star a GitHub gist. This operation is idempotent and will succeed even if the gist is already 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.
Deletes3
Remove something. This often cannot be undone.
- 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'".
- Unstar a Gist
Unstar a GitHub gist. This operation is idempotent and will succeed even if the gist is not currently starred.
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