gh-audit

GitHub audit, governance, and inventory for organizations.

gh-audit produces a comprehensive inventory of your GitHub organization -- repositories, members, Actions workflows, security posture, packages, and projects -- and generates JSON, HTML, and Excel reports. It supports standard (fast) and deep (thorough) scan profiles, multi-organization scanning via YAML config, and both PAT and GitHub App authentication.

A free tool by N8 Group -- DevOps Transformation. Executed with Precision.

Installation

pip (Python 3.11+)

pip install gh-audit
gh-audit --version

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

brew tap n8group-oss/tap
brew install gh-audit

Chocolatey (Windows)

choco install gh-audit

New Chocolatey packages can take time to appear publicly while community moderation completes. If gh-audit is not visible yet, download the .nupkg asset from GitHub Releases and install it from the folder where you saved it:

choco install gh-audit --source="'C:\path\to\package-folder'"

Direct download

Download standalone binaries, checksums, and release artifacts from GitHub Releases. Standalone executables are available for Linux (amd64), macOS (amd64, arm64), and Windows (amd64).

Quick Start

Single organization (PAT)

gh-audit discover --organization myorg --token ghp_xxxxx

Single organization (GitHub App -- recommended)

gh-audit discover \
  --organization myorg \
  --app-id 12345 \
  --private-key-path /path/to/key.pem \
  --installation-id 67890

Multi-organization (config file)

gh-audit discover --config gh-audit.yml --output-dir ./results

See examples/gh-audit.yml for the config format.

Interactive setup

gh-audit init

Creates a .env file with your credentials. Then run:

gh-audit discover

Scan Profiles

Profile	Default	What it does
standard	Yes	Repository metadata, PR/issue/branch counts, workflow listing, security feature status, users, packages, projects
deep	No	Everything in standard + recursive tree walk (large file detection), workflow YAML parsing (action usage, self-hosted runners), exact security alert counts

gh-audit discover --organization myorg --token ghp_xxx --scan-profile deep

Individual deep features can be toggled independently:

gh-audit discover --organization myorg --token ghp_xxx \
  --scan-large-files \
  --scan-workflow-contents \
  --security-alert-counts

Output

Every scan produces three artifacts:

Format	File	Purpose
JSON	{org}-inventory.json	Machine-readable inventory
HTML	{org}-report.html	Self-contained visual report (offline, no CDN)
Excel	{org}-inventory.xlsx	10-sheet workbook for analysis and sharing

Regenerate reports from an existing inventory:

gh-audit report --inventory myorg-inventory.json

Authentication

Personal Access Token (PAT)

Required scopes (classic): repo, read:org, read:packages, read:project, security_events

Set via CLI flag, environment variable, or .env file:

export GH_AUDIT_TOKEN=ghp_xxxxx
export GH_AUDIT_ORGANIZATION=myorg

GitHub App (recommended)

Better rate limits (15,000 req/hr vs 5,000) and org-level permissions.

Required permissions: Repository metadata (read), Organization members (read), Actions (read), Packages (read), Security events (read).

export GH_AUDIT_APP_ID=12345
export GH_AUDIT_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH=/path/to/key.pem
export GH_AUDIT_INSTALLATION_ID=67890
export GH_AUDIT_ORGANIZATION=myorg

GitHub Enterprise Server

export GH_AUDIT_API_URL=https://github.mycompany.com/api/v3

Multi-Organization Config

Scan multiple organizations with different credentials in one run:

defaults:
  scan_profile: standard
  concurrency: 8

organizations:
  - name: org-one
    token: ${GH_TOKEN_ORG_ONE}

  - name: org-two
    app_id: 12345
    private_key_path: /path/to/key.pem
    installation_id: 67890
    scan_profile: deep

gh-audit discover --config gh-audit.yml --output-dir ./results

Each organization gets its own output directory. A cross-org summary (summary.json + summary.html) is generated at the root.

License

Business Source License 1.1 -- free to use for internal purposes. See LICENSE for full terms.

Contact

N8 Group -- European leader in AI-powered DevOps solutions.

• Web: n8-group.com
• Email: sales@n8-group.com
• LinkedIn: N8 Group
• Phone: +48 12 300 25 80