What is github-reader?

A guide for reading GitHub repositories, especially research projects that include a paper. It explains how the code works, the main idea behind it, and the results reported by the authors.

Use it to understand research code releases, find and follow linked arXiv papers, and summarise a repository's implementation, ideas, and reported results.

It turns unfamiliar repositories and research papers into a faithful summary. It also helps connect a paper's claims with the implementation that tests them.

github-reader — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by dongzhuoyao

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 dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills --skill github-reader

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills/github-reader/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills/github-reader)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills/github-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills/github-reader/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills/github-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills/github-reader.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,522 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 unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00121	$0.01522
Opus 5.5	$0.00048	$0.00609
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00024	$0.00304
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00152

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3d11b500e219, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-reader 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 2mo 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/research/github-reader/SKILL.md · 93 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 93 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 3d11b500e219

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,522 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Research

github-reader next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
github-readerdongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills	Skill	10	4mo ago	none	A	121	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	133k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	313k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	103	Claude Code