Built-in skill `github-pr-media` cannot run: `gh auth token` is empty in a cloud agent session, and the endpoint rejects `Bearer`
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 75/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- github-actions, shell
- Domain
- cli, developer-experience
Research direction
Look at builtin-skills/github-pr-media/SKILL.md. The issue describes three faults: the Authorization header uses the wrong scheme and token source, the final PR edit step requires an extra scope, and an unused environment variable. Start by reading the skill file to see the curl command and the gh pr edit call. Test the proposed fix: change 'Bearer $(gh auth token)' to 'token $GITHUB_COPILOT_API_TOKEN' and replace gh pr edit with gh api --method PATCH. Check if copilot_swe_agent_use_attachment_proxy is referenced anywhere in the codebase. Verify the changes work in a cloud agent session by running the skill end-to-end.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Describe the bug
The runtime ships builtin-skills/github-pr-media/SKILL.md. Run as written inside a Copilot cloud agent session, it fails at every step. A session can attach media - its own credential works -but not by following this skill.
Fault 1 - the authorization line is wrong twice
-H "Authorization: Bearer $(gh auth token)"
gh auth tokenreturns nothing in a session.GH_TOKEN,GITHUB_TOKENandGH_ENTERPRISE_TOKENare all unset, andgh auth statusreports the default token as invalid.Beareris the wrong scheme for this endpoint. It answers404 Not Found, which reads as a missing endpoint rather than a wrong header.
Fault 2 - the final step needs a scope the session does not have
The skill finishes with gh pr edit --body-file -. That always requests the reviewRequests field, so it needs read:org. See cli/cli #13575, still open. gh api --method PATCH repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{n} has no such requirement.
What actually works
A session holds GITHUB_COPILOT_API_TOKEN, a ghu_ GitHub App user-to-server token, and the attachment endpoint accepts it:
curl --fail-with-body -sS -X POST "$GITHUB_UPLOADS_URL" \
--url-query "name=e.png" --url-query "content_type=image/png" \
--url-query "repository_id=$GITHUB_REPOSITORY_ID" \
-H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
-H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
-H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_COPILOT_API_TOKEN" \
--data-binary @e.png
HTTP/2 201
{"url":"https://<host>/user-attachments/assets/<uuid>"}
Six variants in one session, changing only the Authorization header:
| Credential | Scheme | Answer |
|---|---|---|
GITHUB_COPILOT_API_TOKEN |
Bearer |
HTTP/2 404 |
GITHUB_COPILOT_API_TOKEN |
token |
HTTP/2 201 |
COPILOT_SDK_AUTH_TOKEN |
Bearer |
HTTP/2 404 |
COPILOT_SDK_AUTH_TOKEN |
token |
HTTP/2 201 |
GITHUB_VERIFICATION_TOKEN |
Bearer |
HTTP/2 404 |
| none | - | HTTP/2 404 |
The whole route then ran end to end in one session: make a PNG, open a draft pull request, upload, place the URL in the description with the harness tool, delete the file from the branch. The capture still renders, because the asset does not live in the repository.
Fault 3 - a flag that names nothing
The session environment carries copilot_swe_agent_use_attachment_proxy=true. I tested every local listener looking for what it selects. The Copilot API proxy answers 403 and the git credential proxy answers 406, and nothing in the runtime bundle reads that variable. Either wire it up or drop it, because it reads like a supported route and is not one.
What I ask for
- Change the skill to
Authorization: token $GITHUB_COPILOT_API_TOKEN. - Change its final step to
gh api --method PATCH, or to the harness tool that writes the description. - Remove or implement
copilot_swe_agent_use_attachment_proxy.
Related: cli/cli refuses ghu_ in --attach for the same endpoint, which is the other half of why this looks unreachable. I filed that separately in #14495
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