githits-code

A guide for using GitHits to find and verify examples, source code, documentation, file listings, and code locations in open-source projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search indexed open-source code, navigate files, find documentation, inspect examples, and confirm how a library works.
Why use it?
It provides evidence from real repositories when library behavior or usage is uncertain, instead of relying on memory or guesses.

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/githits-com/githits-cli/githits-code
Any agent
npx skills add githits-com/githits-cli --skill githits-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/githits-com/githits-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,783 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 $0.00059 $0.01783
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00178

Measured yesterday against content hash c9443e2a35e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

githits-code 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/githits-code/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use GitHits for evidence from real open-source code instead of guessing from model memory.

CLI Invocation

  • Run commands as githits ....
  • If githits is not found, retry the same command as npx -y githits@latest ....
  • Use --json when you need stable fields to parse or chain into another command.
  • Do not expose credentials. If auth is required interactively, run githits login; use githits login --no-browser only when the user can complete the printed URL flow. In noninteractive eval/CI, do not start OAuth; report that GITHITS_API_TOKEN or prior login is required.
  • If a command returns TERMS_ACCEPTANCE_REQUIRED, run githits settings terms accept or use the returned authenticated acceptance URL, then retry once.

Decision Flow

  • Need a canonical cross-project example or pattern: githits example "<focused question>"; include source repositories/citations from GitHits' generated references/provenance section whenever present.
  • Need package metadata, vulnerability/advisory status, dependency graphs, or release notes: stop and use the githits-package skill instead.
  • Exact language name uncertain for example --lang: run githits languages <query> first.
  • Inspecting a known dependency or GitHub repo: start with githits search scoped by --in.
  • Searching an exact standalone documentation site: use githits search "<topic>" --source docs --in site:<host[/path]>. If the result reports suggested site targets, retry one explicitly; suggestions are advisory targets, not aliases.
  • Need file/path enumeration: use githits code files; do not probe directories with code read.
  • Know the exact text to match: use githits code grep (literal by default). Pass --regex for RE2 syntax; lookaround and backreferences are unsupported. Use githits search for discovery.
  • Need documentation pages: use githits search "<topic>" --source docs --in <target> for topic search, or githits docs list <spec> to browse available pages.

Core Commands

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 96 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A c9443e2a35e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

githits-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository githits-com/githits-cli (87 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,783 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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