github-trending

A research skill that tracks what is gaining attention on GitHub, a code-hosting site, and the Hugging Face Hub, a site for sharing AI models, datasets, and interactive demos. It returns a small, grouped selection with momentum labels and a short reason each item matters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find notable GitHub repositories, AI models, datasets, and demos, optionally filtered by programming language or resource type.
Why use it?
It saves you from scanning separate trending pages or sorting through long, unfiltered lists. It adds context about why each project or AI resource may be worth opening.

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/aaronjmars/aeon-agent/github-trending
Any agent
npx skills add aaronjmars/aeon-agent --skill github-trending
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaronjmars/aeon-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.05336
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02668
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00534

Measured 3d ago against content hash 737e884def0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-trending scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Fetch the daily trending page via **WebFetch** (it renders the HTML for you; `curl` works too — there is no network sandbox):
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to github-trending — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/github-trending/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

${var} — Source selector plus optional sub-scope:

  • empty or githubGitHub trending, all languages (default)
  • github:<lang> — or a bare language token like python, typescript, rust (backward-compatible with the old GitHub var) → GitHub trending filtered to that language
  • hf or huggingfaceHugging Face trending across models + datasets + spaces
  • hf:models / hf:datasets / hf:spaces (also huggingface:models, etc.) → Hugging Face trending scoped to a single resource type

This skill covers two neighbouring layers of where developer/AI attention is moving today: the repo layer (GitHub trending) and the artifact layer (Hugging Face Hub — the models, datasets, and spaces that ship alongside, and frequently before, the paper). Both branches share the same contract: don't dump the top 10 (the source's own front page already does that) — deliver a curated slate of 5–8 picks a busy reader would actually want to click, grouped by category, with a one-line "why notable" and a momentum tag per pick.

Shared preamble (run for every invocation)

Read memory/MEMORY.md for context. Read the last 3 days of memory/logs/ to dedupe items you've already featured (the GitHub branch dedupes against the last 2 days, the Hugging Face branch against the last 3 — see each branch's filter step). Read soul/SOUL.md + soul/STYLE.md if populated to match voice.

Parse ${var} into a source + optional sub-scope (deterministic):

  1. If ${var} is empty → GitHub branch, no language filter.
  2. Otherwise trim + lowercase and split on the first : into head and optional tail.
  3. head ∈ {hf, huggingface} → Hugging Face branch. If tail is present it must be one of models / datasets / spaces (that becomes the resource sub-scope); any other tail → exit HF_TRENDING_BAD_VAR (no notify). No tail → pull all three resource types.
  4. head == githubGitHub branch. If tail is present, it's the language filter.
  5. Any other value (no colon, head not hf/huggingface/github) → GitHub branch, treating the whole ${var} as the language filter (e.g. rust).

Then jump to the matching branch below and run it end to end.


Read the full file on GitHub · 339 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. 3d ago First seen · 339 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 737e884def0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-trending is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaronjmars/aeon-agent (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 5,336 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to github-trending, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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