gh-search-repos

gh-search-repos is a skill for Claude Code from aaddrick/gh-cli-search. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to searching GitHub repositories with the command line. It covers filters such as programming language, owner, topic, license, visibility, archived status, stars, and forks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find repositories by language, organization, topic, license, activity status, popularity, or other repository attributes.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to narrow a large set of GitHub projects to repositories matching specific technical or popularity requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gh-cli-search plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to find repositories by language, organization, topic, license, activity status, popularity, or other repository attributes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaddrick/gh-cli-search/gh-search-repos
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aaddrick/gh-cli-search --skill gh-search-repos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaddrick/gh-cli-search

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gh-cli-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 3 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for gh-search-repos

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,759 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.02759
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01380
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00276

Measured 10d ago against content hash 24d3f37198ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh-search-repos 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 10d ago.

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.

skills/gh-search-repos/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub CLI: Search Repositories

Overview

Search for repositories across GitHub using gh search repos. Filter by stars, forks, language, topics, license, and more.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when searching for repositories across GitHub:

  • Finding repositories by popularity (stars/forks)
  • Searching by programming language or topics
  • Finding repos with good first issues
  • Filtering by license or archived status
  • Searching in specific organizations or by owner
  • Need to exclude certain results (requires -- flag)

Syntax

gh search repos [<query>] [flags]

Key Flags Reference

Repository Attributes

Flag Purpose Example
--language <string> Programming language --language python
--topic <strings> Repository topics --topic machine-learning
--license <strings> License type --license mit
--archived {true|false} Archived state --archived false
--owner <strings> Repository owner --owner github
--visibility <string> Visibility: public, private, internal --visibility public

Popularity Metrics

Flag Purpose Example
--stars <number> Star count --stars ">1000"
--forks <number> Fork count --forks ">100"
--followers <number> Follower count --followers ">50"
--size <string> Size in KB --size "100..1000"

Issue Counts

Flag Purpose Example
--good-first-issues <number> "Good first issue" label count --good-first-issues ">=5"
--help-wanted-issues <number> "Help wanted" label count --help-wanted-issues ">=3"

Date Filters

Flag Purpose Example
--created <date> Creation date --created ">2024-01-01"
--updated <date> Last update date --updated ">2024-06-01"

Search Scope

Flag Purpose Example
--match <strings> Search in: name, description, readme --match name
--include-forks {false|true|only} Include/exclude forks --include-forks false

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 330 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 24d3f37198ce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gh-search-repos is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaddrick/gh-cli-search (8 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,759 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 2026-08-31.

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