GitHub Web Uploader

Overview

Use this skill when local gh or git push setup is missing, but the user is already logged into GitHub in Google Chrome.
The workflow exports GitHub cookies from Chrome, launches a separate automated Chrome window, optionally creates a repository, then writes the local project tree into GitHub through the web UI.
When the target repository already has the same file content, the uploader skips that file instead of creating a redundant commit.

Best Fit

This skill is optimized for text-based project trees:

• OpenClaw or Codex skills
• config folders and manifest lists
• scripts, source code, and small app repositories

For binary-heavy software bundles, prefer zipping first or using normal git later.

Quick Start

python3 scripts/github_upload.py \
  --source /absolute/path/project \
  --repo-name my-project \
  --create-repo \
  --visibility private

python3 scripts/github_upload.py \
  --source /absolute/path/skill \
  --repo-owner my-user \
  --repo-name my-skill \
  --create-repo \
  --visibility private \
  --description "Reusable Codex skill"

python3 scripts/github_upload.py \
  --source /absolute/path/config-list \
  --repo-name config-list \
  --dry-run

Workflow

1. Confirm the user is already logged into https://github.com in Google Chrome.
2. Point --source at the local folder to publish.
3. Use --create-repo when the target repo does not exist yet.
4. Default to private unless the user explicitly wants a public repo.
5. Run --dry-run first when you want to verify login and the upload plan without creating commits.
6. Read the returned JSON and share the final repository URL.

Behavior

• Exports live GitHub cookies from Chrome.
• Recursively scans the source folder.
• Skips common junk by default:
  • .git/
  • node_modules/
  • __pycache__/
  • .DS_Store
  • .pydeps/
• Treats the source as a text-first tree.
• Creates missing files in GitHub or edits existing ones in place.
• Skips unchanged files when the remote and local contents already match.
• Creates one commit per changed file for reliability in the web UI.

Guardrails

• macOS only.
• Requires Google Chrome with an active GitHub login.
• Optimized for UTF-8 text files.
• If binary files are detected, either use --skip-binary or remove them before upload.
• If the repo owner is omitted, the script tries to infer the default signed-in owner from GitHub's new-repo page.

Resources

scripts/github_upload.py

Python wrapper for dependency bootstrapping, cookie export, source-tree scanning, manifest generation, and invoking the browser uploader.

scripts/github_upload.js

Playwright-based GitHub uploader that creates repositories and writes files through the GitHub web interface.