Gist

developer tools 20 tools available

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.

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About this integration

Connect Gist to Definable to triage issues, review pull requests, monitor builds. Personas call Gist's 20 tools directly from chat or scheduled flows. Wire it into a triage, review, or release-management persona — every action runs scoped, reviewable, and logged.

Connect Gist to Definable and it becomes a set of typed tools your agents plan with — triggered by events, run on schedules, or invoked mid-conversation. Every write is checked by the verifier before it lands.

Auth OAuth2 · 2 clicks

Tools 20 exposed

Plans All, incl. Free

Data Never trained on

Gist · in workflows

What teams actually run.

Three patterns teams run with Gist on day one. Each one is a plain-English prompt — no canvas, no glue code — and you can remix them into anything.

Triage incoming issues

│ Webhook fires on every new issue

│ Persona summarises and labels it

└ Assigns the right engineer

Auto-review PRs

│ Pull the diff

│ Run a code-review persona

└ Post structured feedback as PR comment

Failing-build alerts

│ CI sends a failure event

│ Agent inspects logs and stack trace

└ Drops a debug summary in Slack

20 tools available

The Gist toolbox.

Every Gist capability your agents can call, each with a typed schema the planner reads. The router picks the right tool per step; the verifier checks the result.

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.

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.

See it run

One prompt, start to finish.

A real prompt, the Gist tools it calls, and what comes back. This is the whole interface — describe the outcome, agents handle the rest.

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Run a real Gist task end-to-end — plan it, execute across the API, and hand back a verified result.

gist.check_gist_star Check if the authenticated user has starred a specific gist. Returns True if the gist is s

gist.create_gist Tool to create a new gist with one or more files. Use when you need to create a code snipp

gist.create_gist_comment Tool to create a comment on a gist. Use when you need to add a comment to an existing gist · verified

done

Done. Gist responded across 3 calls, the verifier signed off, and the result is logged with every payload.

FAQ · Gist

Questions, answered.

What teams ask before connecting Gist.

01 What can I automate with Gist on Definable?

Anything Gist exposes through its API. Common developer tools workflows on Definable include triage issues, review pull requests, monitor builds. Personas can call any of the 20 Gist tools directly, then chain the result into another integration without you writing code.

02 How does Gist authentication work?

Gist uses API_KEY on Definable. You connect once from the integrations page, scoped to the permissions you choose, and from then on any persona that has the integration enabled can act on your behalf. Tokens are encrypted at rest and rotated automatically.

03 Is the Gist integration included in my Definable plan?

Yes — every Definable plan, including Starter, includes access to all 20 Gist tools. You only need a separate Gist subscription if Gist itself charges per seat or per API call.

04 Is using Gist through Definable secure?

Every call from a persona to Gist is logged with the user, persona, prompt, and response. Tokens never leave Definable's secrets vault, scopes are configurable per persona, and you can revoke access at any time from the integration page.

05 How do I get started with Gist on Definable?

Sign up for Definable, open the integrations page, find Gist, and connect via OAuth or API key. You can immediately attach Gist to any persona and start running workflows. The free Starter plan includes 5,000 credits/month.

06 What Gist actions does Definable expose?

Definable exposes all 20 Gist actions as callable tools — including `Check Gist Star`, `Create Gist`, `Create Gist Comment`, plus 17 more. Each tool gets a typed parameter schema so personas know exactly how to call it.