github_skill

A GitHub lookup tool for finding trending repositories by programming language and retrieving details about a specific repository. GitHub is a service where developers publish and collaborate on code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search trending projects or inspect a repository’s stars, forks, description, language, and URL.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching GitHub pages when you need repository descriptions, popularity figures, or related metadata.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/81120/light-agent/github_skill
Any agent
npx skills add 81120/light-agent --skill github_skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/81120/light-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00030 $0.00368
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00184
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash ac388d7f55ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github_skill scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/github.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agent/skills/github_skill/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Skill

Use Cases

Use this skill to fetch the following from GitHub:

  • Search trending repositories by language
  • Query details for a specific repository
  • Get stars, forks, descriptions, and related metadata

Steps

  1. Decide the query type (search or repository detail).
  2. Run node scripts/github.js <command> [args] from this skill directory.
  3. The script returns JSON output.

Commands

Search Trending Repositories

node scripts/github.js search <language> [limit]
  • language: language name, e.g. elixir, javascript, python
  • limit: number of results to return, default is 10

Get Repository Details

node scripts/github.js repo <owner>/<repo>
  • owner/repo: full repository name, e.g. phoenixframework/phoenix

Output Format

  • Search: JSON array with repository name, description, stars, language, URL, etc.
  • Repo detail: JSON object with full repository metadata
  • Failure: error message

Examples

# Search trending Elixir repositories
node scripts/github.js search elixir 10

# Search trending JavaScript repositories
node scripts/github.js search javascript 5

# Get Phoenix repository details
node scripts/github.js repo phoenixframework/phoenix

Notes

  • Uses GitHub public APIs with rate limits (60 requests/hour without auth)
  • Authentication is not required for basic use
  • You can configure a GitHub token in the script for higher quota
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 65 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A ac388d7f55ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github_skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository 81120/light-agent (24 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 368 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.