Gist Tools
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 collabor
Use Gist Tools with AI agents
Aident Loadout lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other supported agents call Gist Tools. Choose from 20 supported Actions. Review each execution in Audit.
Connect Gist Tools once through Aident Vault. Your agent can use the supported Actions without receiving the underlying credential.
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IntegrationPricing and payment
- Pricing
- Free in Loadout. Provider charges may apply when using a personally connected account.
- Unified payment
- Not currently supported. Connect a provider account when required.
Included Actions
- Gist Check Gist StarCheck 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.
- Gist Create GistTool 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.
- Gist Create Gist CommentTool to create a comment on a gist. Use when you need to add a comment to an existing gist.
- Gist Delete GistTool to delete a gist. Use when you have a gist_id and want to permanently remove that gist. Example prompt: "Delete gist 'aa5a315d61ae9438b18d'".
- Gist Delete Gist CommentTool 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'".
- Gist Fork GistTool to fork a gist. Use when you need to create a copy of an existing gist under your own account.
- Gist Get GistTool to retrieve a specific gist by its ID. Use when you have a gist_id and need complete gist details.
- Gist Get Gist CommentTool 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.
- Gist Get Gist RevisionTool to retrieve a specific gist revision. Use when you need details of a past state for an existing gist by commit SHA.
- Gist List Gist CommentsTool 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'.
- Gist List Gist CommitsTool to list the commit history of a gist. Use after you have the gist ID to review its revisions.
- Gist List Gist ForksTool to list forks of a gist. Use after obtaining a gist_id to retrieve all forks for the gist.
- Gist List GistsTool to list the authenticated user's gists or all public gists if called anonymously. Use after setting a valid GitHub token in headers.
- Gist List Public GistsTool 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.
- Gist List Starred GistsTool to list the authenticated user's starred gists. Use when you need to retrieve all gists the user has starred.
- Gist List User GistsTool to list public gists for a specified GitHub user. Use when you have a username and need their gists.
- Gist Star GistStar a GitHub gist. This operation is idempotent and will succeed even if the gist is already starred.
- Gist Unstar GistUnstar a GitHub gist. This operation is idempotent and will succeed even if the gist is not currently starred.
- Gist Update GistTool to update a gist's description and files. Use when you need to modify gist content, rename files, or delete files from a gist.
- Gist Update Gist CommentTool to update a Gist comment. Updates an existing comment on a gist. You must be the author of the comment to update it.
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