backlog(B-0581): RE-LAND skill wrapping gh auth refresh interactive flow (supersedes stale #3961)#4754
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…ope-grant registry
Aaron 2026-05-16, after Otto tried to fire `gh auth refresh` blindly via
Bash tool: "we need a skill around this." The empirical artifact that
made the gap visible was the one-time code (472D-B3EF in that run) that
gh surfaces mid-flow — Otto's non-interactive subprocess would burn the
code without surfacing it to the human.
Files the design row for a `.claude/skills/gh-auth-refresh-wrapper/SKILL.md`
+ `tools/auth/gh-auth-refresh-wrapper.ts` helper that:
1. Spawns gh + pumps stdin for Y/n
2. Captures the one-time code via stdout regex
3. Surfaces the code prominently (banner + pbcopy + osascript notification)
4. Pumps Enter to open browser (after surfacing the code)
5. Polls gh auth status until new scopes appear
6. Appends to ~/.local/share/zeta/scope-grants.jsonl
({machineId, scopes[], grantedBy, grantedAt, command})
6-slice decomposition, S effort overall. Aaron volunteered to be the
human-in-the-loop test subject when this row gets picked up.
Composes with B-0570 (scarcity tracker — scope affects API budget),
B-0571 (GitHub App = production alternative), B-0580 (Enterprise
ruleset management — uses scopes this skill grants), and the canonical
substrate at feedback_aaron_fine_grained_pat_workflow_*_2026_05_16.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Re-lands B-0581 (skill wrapping gh auth refresh interactive flow + scope-grant registry) from stale PR #3961 (7 days old, DIRTY, 0 unresolved threads but unable to merge).
Per
.claude/rules/blocked-green-ci-investigate-threads.mdstale-armed-PR resolution decision tree:What's in this PR
docs/backlog/P2/B-0581-gh-auth-refresh-skill-wrapper-2026-05-16.md— full backlog row (cherry-picked verbatim from backlog(B-0581): skill wrapping gh auth refresh interactive flow + scope-grant registry #3961's commit7558984e4)docs/BACKLOG.md— regenerated index viabun tools/backlog/generate-index.tsThe backlog row captures the empirically-motivated observation that Otto's Bash tool can't handle
gh auth refresh's Y/n prompt + one-time code surfacing + Enter-to-open-browser blocking step — a skill wrapper would unblock that flow.Composes with
.claude/rules/blocked-green-ci-investigate-threads.md(stale-armed-PR resolution pattern)Test plan
ZETA_EXPECTED_BRANCHguardNext step after merge: close #3961 with cross-link.
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