Supercharge Your Development: Automating GitHub and Jira using Claude AI Agents

ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills

If you’ve ever felt that AI is great at chatting but lacks the "hands" to actually do work in your dev environment, this is the solution you've been looking for.

At its core, Composio is a platform that connects AI agents to over 100+ external tools (GitHub, Slack, Jira, Gmail, etc.) using high-quality "Skills."

The awesome-claude-skills repository is a curated collection of these specialized functions. For an engineer, this means you can stop copy-pasting code between windows. Instead, you can give Claude the ability to

Manage GitHub
Create branches, commit code, or respond to PR comments.

Automate Jira
Update tickets based on the status of your local build.

Debug & Execute
Run local scripts or interact with your terminal directly.

The easiest way to use these skills is via the Composio SDK. Here’s how you can set it up in your local development environment.

Open your terminal and run

pip install composio-core composio-anthropic

You'll need to link your tools (like GitHub).

composio login
# Follow the prompt to connect your GitHub or other apps

Let's look at a practical example. Suppose you want Claude to check your GitHub notifications and summarize them.

from anthropic import Anthropic
from composio_anthropic import ComposioToolSet, App

# 1. Initialize the Anthropic client and Composio Toolset
client = Anthropic(api_key="your_anthropic_key")
toolset = ComposioToolSet(api_key="your_composio_key")

# 2. Get the specific skills/tools you need (e.g., GitHub)
tools = toolset.get_tools(apps=[App.GITHUB])

# 3. Define the task for Claude
prompt = "Check my recent GitHub notifications and tell me if there are any urgent bug reports."

# 4. Create the session
response = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620",
    max_tokens=1000,
    tools=tools, # This gives Claude the "Skills"
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
)

# 5. Execute the tool call and get results
result = toolset.handle_tool_calls(response)
print(result)

The best way to explore this is to check out the Composio Documentation or browse the awesome-claude-skills repo to see which apps (like Slack, Notion, or AWS) you want to automate first.