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.
npx skills add oaustegard/claude-skills --skill building-github-index-v2git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/building-github-index-v2)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/building-github-index-v2"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/building-github-index-v2/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/building-github-index-v2"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/building-github-index-v2.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 104 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 109 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 | $0.00032 | $0.01029 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00515 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00206 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00103 |
Grade A, and why
building-github-index-v2 scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
{API curl commands} How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Building GitHub Index (v2 — DEPRECATED)
⚠️ DEPRECATED: Use the building-github-index skill instead.
Despite the "-v2" directory name, this is the older implementation. It fetches
the repo tree and then every file individually through api.github.com, which is
slow and burns per-file rate limit. building-github-index supersedes it with a
single-request tarball download that processes files locally.
This directory is retained only so existing references resolve. It receives no further updates.
Legacy Documentation
Create markdown indexes of GitHub repositories optimized for Claude project knowledge. Indexes enable retrieval via GitHub API with semantic descriptions for effective matching.
Quick Start
# Documentation repos (markdown/notebooks)
python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo -o index.md
# Code repos (extract symbols via tree-sitter)
python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo --code-symbols -o index.md
# Multiple repos combined
python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo1 owner/repo2 -o combined.md
Script Options
| Flag | Description |
|---|---|
-o, --output |
Output file (default: github_index.md) |
--token |
GitHub PAT; also reads GITHUB_TOKEN env |
--include-patterns |
Only index matching globs: "docs/**" "src/**" |
--exclude-patterns |
Skip matching globs: "test/**" |
--max-files |
Cap files per repo (default: 200) |
--skip-fetch |
Tree only, no content fetch (fast, filename-only descriptions) |
--code-symbols |
Include code files, extract function/class names via tree-sitter |
Description Extraction Priority
- YAML frontmatter -
title:anddescription:fields - Markdown headings - First h1/h2 as title, subsequent as topics
- Notebook cells - First markdown cell heading
- Code symbols - Public function/class names (with
--code-symbols) - Path-derived - Convert filename to words (fallback)
When Descriptions Fail
Some repos have stub files (links to external docs, empty readmes). In these cases:
What ships with it
4 files 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 138 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A be020db5dd86
building-github-index-v2 is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaustegard/claude-skills (148 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,029 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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