read-github

read-github is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror. It costs 78 tokens per session (629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for reading and searching documentation and code in a GitHub repository, a hosted project repository used to store source code and project information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding README files, searching project documentation, locating code, and fetching URLs referenced by repository documentation.
Why use it?
It lets an agent understand a repository's documentation and implementation without relying only on a general web search.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/gitmcp.py list-tools owner/repo.

Good fit Finding README files, searching project documentation, locating code, and fetching URLs referenced by repository documentation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/read-github

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.

agentmods badge for read-github

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/read-github/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/read-github)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/read-github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/read-github/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for read-github

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/read-github"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/read-github.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 629 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00078 $0.00629
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00063

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0fd103db57b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-github 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 9d 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.

mirrors/repos/AgentTeam-TaichuAI@ScienceClaw/Skills/read-github/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read GitHub Docs

Access GitHub repository documentation and code via the gitmcp.io MCP service.

URL Conversion

Convert GitHub URLs to gitmcp.io:

  • github.com/owner/repogitmcp.io/owner/repo
  • https://github.com/karpathy/llm-councilhttps://gitmcp.io/karpathy/llm-council

CLI Usage

The scripts/gitmcp.py script provides CLI access to repository docs.

List Available Tools

python3 scripts/gitmcp.py list-tools owner/repo

Fetch Documentation

Retrieves the full documentation file (README, docs, etc.):

python3 scripts/gitmcp.py fetch-docs owner/repo

Search Documentation

Semantic search within repository documentation:

python3 scripts/gitmcp.py search-docs owner/repo "query"

Search Code

Search code using GitHub Search API (exact match):

python3 scripts/gitmcp.py search-code owner/repo "function_name"

Fetch Referenced URL

Fetch content from URLs mentioned in documentation:

python3 scripts/gitmcp.py fetch-url owner/repo "https://example.com/doc"

Direct Tool Call

Call any MCP tool directly:

python3 scripts/gitmcp.py call owner/repo tool_name '{"arg": "value"}'

Tool Names

Tool names are dynamically prefixed with the repo name (underscored):

  • karpathy/llm-councilfetch_llm_council_documentation
  • facebook/reactfetch_react_documentation
  • my-org/my-repofetch_my_repo_documentation

Available MCP Tools

For any repository, these tools are available:

  1. fetch_{repo}_documentation - Fetch entire documentation. Call first for general questions.
  2. search_{repo}_documentation - Semantic search within docs. Use for specific queries.
  3. search_{repo}_code - Search code via GitHub API (exact match). Returns matching files.
  4. fetch_generic_url_content - Fetch any URL referenced in docs, respecting robots.txt.

Workflow

  1. When given a GitHub repo, first fetch documentation to understand the project
  2. Use search-docs for specific questions about usage or features
  3. Use search-code to find implementations or specific functions
  4. Use fetch-url to retrieve external references mentioned in docs

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 9d ago First seen · 95 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 0fd103db57b1

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read-github is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 629 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 2026-09-03.

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