star-trajectory

star-trajectory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ardev-lab/star-trajectory. It costs 82 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that checks how a GitHub repository’s star count is changing and classifies its growth phase. It projects whether the repository will reach a chosen target by a deadline using transparent rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a repository’s launch, acceleration, sustained growth, or maturity, and to estimate whether it will reach targets such as 100 stars in 48 hours.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to judge whether a new or trending repository is still gaining momentum or has stalled.

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/ardev-lab/star-trajectory/skill
Any agent
npx skills add ardev-lab/star-trajectory --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ardev-lab/star-trajectory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 718 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 $0.00082 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00072

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3841c4acd2bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

star-trajectory 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 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.

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.

skill/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill classifies a GitHub repository's star-growth trajectory and projects a target/deadline outcome. It wraps classify.py, a single-file, zero-dependency, anonymous-API tool (no token, no file writes).

When to use

Trigger when the user asks anything like:

  • "is owner/repo still taking off, or has it plateaued?"
  • "will this new repo hit 100 stars in its first 48 hours?"
  • "what growth phase is this trending repo in?"

How to run

classify.py lives at the repository root (one directory above this skill). Run:

python3 /path/to/star-trajectory/classify.py --repo <owner>/<name> --json
  • Requires only Python 3.10+ and outbound HTTPS to api.github.com.
  • Uses the anonymous GitHub API (60 req/h). Each call costs 2–3 requests.
  • Optional: --target-stars N, --deadline-hours H, --prior "v1,v2" (past velocity readings to tell an oscillation trough from a terminal stall).

How to interpret the JSON

Key fields:

  • phase (1–4) + phase_label: launch / accel / trajectory (sustain) / maturity.
  • projection.lean: HIT_lean / BORDERLINE / MISS_lean / LOW_CONFIDENCE. Always cite projection.uncertainty_note — direction is robust, magnitude is noisy (±~30%).
  • driver_vs_burst: whether velocity is sustained by active development or is a decaying burst.
  • discovery_onset: if a repo sat dormant then "launched", the deadline clock is re-anchored to launch, not creation.
  • metrics: stars, age, v_avg, v_recent, accel_ratio.

How to respond to the user

Give a short, plain-language read, then the reason:

Likely yes (HIT_lean). It's in an accel phase — the most recent stars are arriving ~1.6× faster than its lifetime average, and there was a push an hour ago. Projected ~417★ by the 48h mark. (Direction is reliable; the exact number is noisy.)

Always state it's a heuristic projection, not a guarantee. If LOW_CONFIDENCE, say why (e.g. too few recent dated stars, or a one-off sharing spike).

Pair with authenticity

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 3841c4acd2bf

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star-trajectory is a skill published in the GitHub repository ardev-lab/star-trajectory (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 718 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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