diff --git a/docs/github-app.md b/docs/github-app.md
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+# GitHub App integration
+
+FlowForge includes a small GitHub integration foundation for verified webhooks and GitHub REST API calls made with a GitHub App installation token.
+
+## Security model
+
+- Verify every webhook against the **raw request body** with `verifyGitHubWebhookSignature` before parsing JSON or starting a workflow.
+- Keep the GitHub App private key, webhook secret, and installation tokens outside source control.
+- Supply short-lived installation tokens to `GitHubApiClient`; the client never writes tokens into request bodies or error messages.
+- The API client accepts HTTPS endpoints only and constrains requests to relative GitHub API paths.
+- Grant the GitHub App only the repository permissions required by the workflows you enable.
+
+## Register the GitHub App
+
+Create a GitHub App named **Karzoun FlowForge Bridge** (or another unique name) in GitHub Developer settings.
+
+Recommended starting configuration:
+
+- Homepage URL: `https://github.com/mkarson1997/karzoun-flowforge`
+- Webhook: enabled
+- Webhook URL: your public FlowForge bridge endpoint, for example `https://YOUR-HOST/webhooks/github`
+- Webhook secret: a randomly generated secret stored only in your deployment secret manager
+- Installation scope: only the repositories where FlowForge workflows should run
+
+Start with least privilege. A repository-health or workflow-trigger integration can usually begin with:
+
+- Metadata: Read-only (GitHub requires metadata access)
+- Actions: Read-only when reading workflow-run state
+- Contents: Read-only when workflow definitions or repository files are read
+- Issues: Read-only if issue events become triggers
+- Pull requests: Read-only if pull request events become triggers
+
+Subscribe only to events you actually handle, such as `pull_request`, `issues`, or `workflow_run`.
+
+## Webhook verification
+
+```ts
+import { verifyGitHubWebhookSignature } from "@karzoun/flowforge";
+
+const valid = verifyGitHubWebhookSignature(
+  process.env.GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET ?? "",
+  rawRequestBody,
+  request.headers["x-hub-signature-256"],
+);
+
+if (!valid) {
+  throw new Error("Invalid GitHub webhook signature");
+}
+```
+
+Do not reconstruct or re-stringify JSON before verification. GitHub signs the exact raw bytes delivered to the webhook endpoint.
+
+## GitHub REST API
+
+Obtain a short-lived installation token through GitHub App authentication, then inject it into the client:
+
+```ts
+import { GitHubApiClient } from "@karzoun/flowforge";
+
+const github = new GitHubApiClient({
+  token: process.env.GITHUB_INSTALLATION_TOKEN ?? "",
+});
+
+const repository = await github.getRepository("mkarson1997", "karzoun-flowforge");
+const runs = await github.listWorkflowRuns("mkarson1997", "karzoun-flowforge", repository.default_branch);
+```
+
+A completed FlowForge execution can also emit an explicit `repository_dispatch` event when the installed app has the required permission:
+
+```ts
+await github.createRepositoryDispatch(
+  "mkarson1997",
+  "karzoun-flowforge",
+  "flowforge.completed",
+  { executionId: "run-123" },
+);
+```
+
+## Production boundary
+
+This module deliberately does not generate GitHub App JWTs or persist private keys. App authentication and token minting belong at the deployment boundary or in a dedicated secrets-aware adapter. That keeps FlowForge's core runtime free of long-lived GitHub credentials.
diff --git a/src/github-app.ts b/src/github-app.ts
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+import { createHmac, timingSafeEqual } from "node:crypto";
+
+export interface GitHubApiClientOptions {
+  token: string;
+  apiBaseUrl?: string;
+  userAgent?: string;
+  fetchImpl?: typeof fetch;
+}
+
+export interface GitHubRepositorySummary {
+  id: number;
+  name: string;
+  full_name: string;
+  private: boolean;
+  default_branch: string;
+  html_url: string;
+}
+
+export interface GitHubWorkflowRunSummary {
+  id: number;
+  name: string;
+  status: string | null;
+  conclusion: string | null;
+  html_url: string;
+  head_sha: string;
+}
+
+export interface GitHubWorkflowRunsResponse {
+  total_count: number;
+  workflow_runs: GitHubWorkflowRunSummary[];
+}
+
+export class GitHubApiError extends Error {
+  constructor(
+    readonly status: number,
+    readonly method: string,
+    readonly path: string,
+  ) {
+    super(`GitHub API request failed: ${method} ${path} returned HTTP ${status}`);
+    this.name = "GitHubApiError";
+  }
+}
+
+export function verifyGitHubWebhookSignature(
+  secret: string,
+  rawBody: string | Uint8Array,
+  signatureHeader: string | null | undefined,
+): boolean {
+  if (secret.length === 0 || !signatureHeader?.startsWith("sha256=")) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  const suppliedHex = signatureHeader.slice("sha256=".length);
+  if (!/^[0-9a-f]{64}$/i.test(suppliedHex)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  const expected = createHmac("sha256", secret).update(rawBody).digest();
+  const supplied = Buffer.from(suppliedHex, "hex");
+  return expected.length === supplied.length && timingSafeEqual(expected, supplied);
+}
+
+export class GitHubApiClient {
+  private readonly token: string;
+  private readonly apiBaseUrl: URL;
+  private readonly userAgent: string;
+  private readonly fetchImpl: typeof fetch;
+
+  constructor(options: GitHubApiClientOptions) {
+    if (options.token.trim().length === 0) {
+      throw new Error("GitHub installation token must not be empty");
+    }
+
+    const apiBaseUrl = new URL(options.apiBaseUrl ?? "https://api.github.com/");
+    if (apiBaseUrl.protocol !== "https:") {
+      throw new Error("GitHub API base URL must use HTTPS");
+    }
+    if (apiBaseUrl.username || apiBaseUrl.password || apiBaseUrl.search || apiBaseUrl.hash) {
+      throw new Error("GitHub API base URL must not contain credentials, a query, or a fragment");
+    }
+    if (!apiBaseUrl.pathname.endsWith("/")) {
+      apiBaseUrl.pathname += "/";
+    }
+
+    this.token = options.token;
+    this.apiBaseUrl = apiBaseUrl;
+    this.userAgent = options.userAgent ?? "karzoun-flowforge";
+    this.fetchImpl = options.fetchImpl ?? globalThis.fetch;
+  }
+
+  async getRepository(owner: string, repo: string): Promise<GitHubRepositorySummary> {
+    return this.request<GitHubRepositorySummary>(
+      "GET",
+      `/repos/${encodeURIComponent(owner)}/${encodeURIComponent(repo)}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  async listWorkflowRuns(
+    owner: string,
+    repo: string,
+    branch?: string,
+  ): Promise<GitHubWorkflowRunsResponse> {
+    const query = branch ? `?branch=${encodeURIComponent(branch)}` : "";
+    return this.request<GitHubWorkflowRunsResponse>(
+      "GET",
+      `/repos/${encodeURIComponent(owner)}/${encodeURIComponent(repo)}/actions/runs${query}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  async createRepositoryDispatch(
+    owner: string,
+    repo: string,
+    eventType: string,
+    clientPayload: Record<string, unknown> = {},
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    if (!/^[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,100}$/.test(eventType)) {
+      throw new Error("GitHub repository_dispatch event type is invalid");
+    }
+
+    await this.request<void>(
+      "POST",
+      `/repos/${encodeURIComponent(owner)}/${encodeURIComponent(repo)}/dispatches`,
+      {
+        event_type: eventType,
+        client_payload: clientPayload,
+      },
+    );
+  }
+
+  private buildUrl(path: string): URL {
+    if (!path.startsWith("/") || path.startsWith("//") || path.includes("..")) {
+      throw new Error("GitHub API path must be an absolute API path without traversal");
+    }
+
+    const url = new URL(path.slice(1), this.apiBaseUrl);
+    if (url.origin !== this.apiBaseUrl.origin) {
+      throw new Error("GitHub API request escaped the configured origin");
+    }
+    return url;
+  }
+
+  private async request<T>(method: "GET" | "POST", path: string, body?: unknown): Promise<T> {
+    const headers: Record<string, string> = {
+      accept: "application/vnd.github+json",
+      authorization: `Bearer ${this.token}`,
+      "user-agent": this.userAgent,
+      "x-github-api-version": "2022-11-28",
+    };
+
+    const init: RequestInit = { method, headers };
+    if (body !== undefined) {
+      headers["content-type"] = "application/json";
+      init.body = JSON.stringify(body);
+    }
+
+    const response = await this.fetchImpl(this.buildUrl(path), init);
+    if (!response.ok) {
+      throw new GitHubApiError(response.status, method, path);
+    }
+    if (response.status === 204) {
+      return undefined as T;
+    }
+
+    return (await response.json()) as T;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
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--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ export {
 } from "./durable-worker.js";
 export { FlowForge, type FlowForgeOptions } from "./engine.js";
 export { StepTimeoutError, WorkflowValidationError } from "./errors.js";
+export {
+  GitHubApiClient,
+  GitHubApiError,
+  type GitHubApiClientOptions,
+  type GitHubRepositorySummary,
+  type GitHubWorkflowRunSummary,
+  type GitHubWorkflowRunsResponse,
+  verifyGitHubWebhookSignature,
+} from "./github-app.js";
 export { topologicalLayers, topologicalOrder } from "./graph.js";
 export { createOperationalHandler, type OperationalHandlerOptions, type ReadinessCheck } from "./operations.js";
 export { INITIAL_MIGRATION_SQL, WORKER_MIGRATION_SQL } from "./postgres-migrations.js";
diff --git a/test/github-app.test.ts b/test/github-app.test.ts
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+import { createHmac } from "node:crypto";
+
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import {
+  GitHubApiClient,
+  GitHubApiError,
+  verifyGitHubWebhookSignature,
+} from "../src/github-app.js";
+
+describe("GitHub webhook verification", () => {
+  it("accepts a valid sha256 signature", () => {
+    const secret = "test-webhook-secret";
+    const body = Buffer.from('{"action":"opened"}', "utf8");
+    const signature = `sha256=${createHmac("sha256", secret).update(body).digest("hex")}`;
+
+    expect(verifyGitHubWebhookSignature(secret, body, signature)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("rejects malformed or incorrect signatures", () => {
+    const body = '{"action":"opened"}';
+    expect(verifyGitHubWebhookSignature("secret", body, "sha1=abc")).toBe(false);
+    expect(verifyGitHubWebhookSignature("secret", body, "sha256=xyz")).toBe(false);
+    expect(verifyGitHubWebhookSignature("secret", body, `sha256=${"0".repeat(64)}`)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("GitHubApiClient", () => {
+  it("uses installation-token authentication and safely encodes repository names", async () => {
+    let requestUrl = "";
+    let requestInit: RequestInit | undefined;
+    const fetchImpl: typeof fetch = async (input, init) => {
+      requestUrl = String(input);
+      requestInit = init;
+      return new Response(
+        JSON.stringify({
+          id: 42,
+          name: "repo/name",
+          full_name: "owner space/repo/name",
+          private: false,
+          default_branch: "main",
+          html_url: "https://github.com/owner-space/repo-name",
+        }),
+        { status: 200, headers: { "content-type": "application/json" } },
+      );
+    };
+
+    const client = new GitHubApiClient({ token: "installation-token", fetchImpl });
+    const repository = await client.getRepository("owner space", "repo/name");
+
+    expect(repository.id).toBe(42);
+    expect(requestUrl).toBe("https://api.github.com/repos/owner%20space/repo%2Fname");
+    const headers = new Headers(requestInit?.headers);
+    expect(headers.get("authorization")).toBe("Bearer installation-token");
+    expect(headers.get("x-github-api-version")).toBe("2022-11-28");
+  });
+
+  it("creates repository_dispatch events without exposing the token in the body", async () => {
+    let body = "";
+    const fetchImpl: typeof fetch = async (_input, init) => {
+      body = String(init?.body ?? "");
+      return new Response(null, { status: 204 });
+    };
+
+    const client = new GitHubApiClient({ token: "secret-token", fetchImpl });
+    await client.createRepositoryDispatch("owner", "repo", "flowforge.completed", {
+      executionId: "run-123",
+    });
+
+    expect(JSON.parse(body)).toEqual({
+      event_type: "flowforge.completed",
+      client_payload: { executionId: "run-123" },
+    });
+    expect(body).not.toContain("secret-token");
+  });
+
+  it("surfaces status and endpoint without copying an API response body into errors", async () => {
+    const fetchImpl: typeof fetch = async () =>
+      new Response('{"message":"private diagnostic"}', { status: 403 });
+    const client = new GitHubApiClient({ token: "installation-token", fetchImpl });
+
+    const request = client.getRepository("owner", "repo");
+    await expect(request).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitHubApiError);
+    await expect(request).rejects.not.toThrow(/private diagnostic/);
+  });
+
+  it("requires HTTPS for GitHub API endpoints", () => {
+    expect(
+      () => new GitHubApiClient({ token: "token", apiBaseUrl: "http://example.test/api/v3/" }),
+    ).toThrow(/HTTPS/);
+  });
+});