github-repository

A workflow for setting a GitHub repository’s description, homepage, topic tags, and selected solo-developer settings using gh. It derives the settings from the repository’s code, manifests, README, and hosting setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, tidying, or standardising a GitHub repository’s public information. It can identify the project summary, homepage, relevant tags, and appropriate solo-developer settings from the codebase.
Why use it?
It avoids inconsistent or vague repository metadata and reduces clutter in a personal project’s GitHub interface. It also keeps topics within GitHub’s naming rules.

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/fmind/dotfiles/github-repository
Any agent
npx skills add fmind/dotfiles --skill github-repository
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmind/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 935 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 $0.00047 $0.00935
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00467
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured yesterday against content hash 3c360d02620b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-repository 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.

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/github-repository/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configure GitHub Repository

Inspect a GitHub repository and configure its metadata (description, homepage, topics) and solo-developer settings via gh — clean merge history, secure defaults, and a decluttered UI.

Workflow

Follow these steps to inspect the codebase and apply the configurations:

1. Extract Repository Metadata

Inspect the codebase files to discover or derive the repository metadata:

  • Primary Source (Manifests): Check project manifest files:
    • Go: go.mod (under module path for the package/project name).
    • Python: pyproject.toml (under [project] fields for name, description, homepage/urls).
  • Secondary Source (README): Read the README.md first few paragraphs to extract a concise, high-level description (under ~140 characters).
  • Homepage URL: Derive from hosting setups (e.g., https://<username>.github.io/<repo> for GitHub Pages).
  • Topics/Tags: Select 3 to 6 descriptive tags representing the main programming language, frameworks, tools, or domain (e.g., agent, python, cli).
    • Constraint: Topics must be lowercase letters, numbers, or hyphens, 50 characters or less, and start with a letter or number (max 20 per repo).

2. Verify GitHub CLI & Inspect Current State

Ensure the GitHub CLI (gh) is authenticated, and fetch the repository's current settings to make changes idempotent:

# Check authentication status
gh auth status

# Get the origin remote URL
git config --get remote.origin.url

# Inspect existing metadata and settings
gh repo view --json description,homepageUrl,repositoryTopics,deleteBranchOnMerge,squashMergeAllowed,mergeCommitAllowed,rebaseMergeAllowed,hasIssuesEnabled,hasProjectsEnabled,hasWikiEnabled,hasDiscussionsEnabled

If the repository does not have an active GitHub remote or gh is not authenticated, report this and halt.

3. Apply Consolidated Configurations

Combine metadata updates and solo developer optimizations into a single consolidated gh repo edit command to maximize speed and efficiency:

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. yesterday First seen · 85 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3c360d02620b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-repository is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dotfiles (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 935 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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