nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/github-auth

# Check what's available
git --version
gh --version 2>/dev/null || echo "gh not installed"
 
# Check if already authenticated
gh auth status 2>/dev/null || echo "gh not authenticated"
git config --global credential.helper 2>/dev/null || echo "no git credential helper"

# Set up the credential helper to cache credentials
# "store" saves to ~/.git-credentials in plaintext (simple, persistent)
git config --global credential.helper store
 
# Now do a test operation that triggers auth — git will prompt for credentials
# Username: <their-github-username>
# Password: <paste the personal access token, NOT their GitHub password>
git ls-remote https://github.com/<their-username>/<any-repo>.git

# Cache in memory for 8 hours (28800 seconds) instead of saving to disk
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=28800'

# Embed token in the remote URL (avoids credential prompts entirely)
git remote set-url origin https://<username>:<token>@github.com/<owner>/<repo>.git

# Required for commits — set name and email
git config --global user.name "Their Name"
git config --global user.email "their-email@example.com"

# Test push access (this should work without any prompts now)
git ls-remote https://github.com/<their-username>/<any-repo>.git
 
# Verify identity
git config --global user.name
git config --global user.email

ls -la ~/.ssh/id_*.pub 2>/dev/null || echo "No SSH keys found"

# Generate an ed25519 key (modern, secure, fast)
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "their-email@example.com" -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -N ""
 
# Display the public key for them to add to GitHub
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

ssh -T git@github.com
# Expected: "Hi <username>! You've successfully authenticated..."

# Rewrite HTTPS GitHub URLs to SSH automatically
git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

git config --global user.name "Their Name"
git config --global user.email "their-email@example.com"

gh auth login
# Select: GitHub.com
# Select: HTTPS
# Authenticate via browser

echo "<THEIR_TOKEN>" | gh auth login --with-token
 
# Set up git credentials through gh
gh auth setup-git

gh auth status

# Option 1: Export as env var (preferred — keeps it out of commands)
export GITHUB_TOKEN="<token>"
 
# Then use in curl calls:
curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  https://api.github.com/user

# Read from git credential store
grep "github.com" ~/.git-credentials 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed 's|https://[^:]*:\([^@]*\)@.*|\1|'

# Try gh first, fall back to git + curl
if command -v gh &>/dev/null && gh auth status &>/dev/null; then
  echo "AUTH_METHOD=gh"
elif [ -n "$GITHUB_TOKEN" ]; then
  echo "AUTH_METHOD=curl"
elif [ -f ~/.hermes/.env ] && grep -q "^GITHUB_TOKEN=" ~/.hermes/.env; then
  export GITHUB_TOKEN=$(grep "^GITHUB_TOKEN=" ~/.hermes/.env | head -1 | cut -d= -f2 | tr -d '\n\r')
  echo "AUTH_METHOD=curl"
elif grep -q "github.com" ~/.git-credentials 2>/dev/null; then
  export GITHUB_TOKEN=$(grep "github.com" ~/.git-credentials | head -1 | sed 's|https://[^:]*:\([^@]*\)@.*|\1|')
  echo "AUTH_METHOD=curl"
else
  echo "AUTH_METHOD=none"
  echo "Need to set up authentication first"
fi