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29th November 2025

Research github-cli-api-proxy — Proxying GitHub CLI (`gh`) API traffic can be achieved through standard HTTP/HTTPS proxies or via a Unix domain socket, each suited to different use cases and levels of flexibility. The CLI, implemented in Go, natively supports proxy environment variables (`HTTPS_PROXY`, `HTTP_PROXY`, `NO_PROXY`), making integration with existing HTTP proxies seamless and requiring no changes to the CLI configuration.

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