github-stars-radar

github-stars-radar is a skill for Claude Code from NeoZhouCHN/github-stars-radar. It costs 29 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local search tool for your GitHub starred repositories, used as memory when choosing libraries, plugins, servers, examples, or reference projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding starred repositories by keyword, ranking them for a task, viewing one repository, and refreshing saved repository or README details.
Why use it?
It helps you find useful projects you already saved before repeating research or making recommendations from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Part of the github-stars-radar plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Finding starred repositories by keyword, ranking them for a task, viewing one repository, and refreshing saved repository or README details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neozhouchn/github-stars-radar/github-stars-radar
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 NeoZhouCHN/github-stars-radar --skill github-stars-radar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NeoZhouCHN/github-stars-radar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install github-stars-radar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 448 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 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 $0.00029 $0.00448
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6da872692f7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-stars-radar 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 8d 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/github-stars-radar/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Stars Radar

Use this skill when a task may benefit from the user's own starred repositories: library selection, MCP/plugin discovery, prompt/tool examples, reference implementations, or prior art for Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes.

When To Search Local Stars First

  • The user asks for reusable projects, libraries, plugins, MCP servers, or example repos.
  • The task resembles something the user may have already saved for later.
  • You need a shortlist of candidates before broader web research.
  • You want to avoid repeating analysis already saved in local agent memory.

Call search_stars for keyword lookup, recommend_stars_for_task for task-based ranking, and get_star for one known repo. Use sync_stars for a fast metadata refresh; use sync_readmes only when README text is needed, and run it in small batches.

When External Research Is Still Required

For major route decisions, do not rely only on local stars. You must search the web and compare at least 3 mature external projects when the decision affects:

  • architecture shape
  • repository structure
  • commercialization or distribution
  • license
  • payment or account systems
  • deployment, compliance, or security route

Local stars are a memory aid, not proof of current best practice.

Output Shape

When recommending repos, include:

  • repository name
  • score
  • top score signals from score_breakdown
  • why it fits
  • why it may not fit
  • cost or risk
  • next verification step

Use the numeric score from recommend_stars_for_task directly. Summarize only the strongest 2-3 nonzero score_breakdown signals, such as readme_match, topic_match, popularity, recency, or analysis_quality; do not paste the whole JSON unless the user asks for raw output.

If local sync fails but stale cache is available, keep working and disclose the stale-cache status from the tool result.

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. 8d ago First seen · 47 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 6da872692f7c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-stars-radar is a skill published in the GitHub repository NeoZhouCHN/github-stars-radar (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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