GitHub source silently returns 0 results when a token is present (HTTP 422)
With any GitHub credential available — GITHUB_TOKEN, or just gh auth login picked up by the gh auth token fallback in _resolve_token — the GitHub source returns no results on v3.18.4.
[GitHub] 422 unprocessable: https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=rust+async+created%3A%3E2026-08-02&sort=reactions&order=desc&per_page=15
✓ Research complete (0.6s) - Github: 0 results
GitHub now requires is:issue or is:pull-request on authenticated /search/issues requests. Anonymous requests are still grandfathered, so the source works fine until a user adds a token — at which point it fails silently.
Confirmed directly against the API from the same host:
WITH token: http=422 "Query must include 'is:issue' or 'is:pull-request'"
WITHOUT token: http=200 total_count: 8115
Two things make this hard to spot:
- Adding a credential is normally an improvement, so the failure arrives at the moment a user expects things to get better.
doctorreportsgithub [CLI: gh ✓]as WORKING regardless, because it checks that theghbinary exists rather than that the source returns anything.
Note for whoever fixes it: appending a single qualifier resolves the 422 but is lossy. For that same query GitHub reports 1,072 issues and 7,044 pull requests against 8,115 combined, so is:issue alone silently discards ~87% of matches.
PR opening shortly that queries both and merges, keeping coverage and the authenticated rate limit.
Environment: v3.18.4 (1004324), Ubuntu 24.04, Python 3.12.3.
Source: mvanhorn/last30days-skill