github-profile-readme

github-profile-readme is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pedroiff0/awesome-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,982 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or rewriting a GitHub profile README, the special repository whose README appears on a user's profile page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding profile banners, project and research sections, contribution graphics, statistics, contact badges, and technology labels.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent structure and guards against overwriting newer edits made on GitHub's website.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Adding profile banners, project and research sections, contribution graphics, statistics, contact badges, and technology labels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/github-profile-readme
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 pedroiff0/awesome-skills --skill github-profile-readme
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedroiff0/awesome-skills

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/github-profile-readme.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/github-profile-readme)
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/github-profile-readme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/github-profile-readme.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,982 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00076 $0.01982
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00991
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00198

Measured 7d ago against content hash 37d26804c72a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-profile-readme 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/gen_name_gif.py, scripts/verify-readme-assets.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" <raw URL>` for banner SVG + both snake SVGs + every external
skills/github/github-profile-readme/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Profile README (astronomy × computing theme)

Trigger: user asks to "personalize my GitHub profile README", "make my profile cool/fancy", "add stats/banner/snake to my profile", or any task touching github.com/<user>/<user> README.md.

Pre-flight

  • Profile repo is github.com/<user>/<user>, branch main.
  • ALWAYS check remote first: git fetch origin && git show origin/main:README.md. The user often edits README.md directly on github.com web after your last clone — a stale local clone is the #1 pitfall (see below).

Anatomy of a rich profile README

  1. Animated banner (SVG) at top — see references/starfield-banner.md for a self-contained Python generator writing assets/starfield.svg (twinkling stars + constellation lines + shooting star). Embed via raw.githubusercontent URL.
  2. Identity header: name, tagline, contact badges (shields.io for-the-badge with emoji).
  3. "Mission"/status block — terminal-style ASCII box is a nice touch.
  4. Stats cards. ALWAYS 200-check every external URL before embedding (see Pitfall below — popular services go down). Anchors that currently work:
    • https://github-readme-activity-graph.vercel.app/graph?username=USER&theme=radical — contribution-area graph (reliable).
    • https://github-readme-streak-stats.herokuapp.com/?user=USER&theme=radical — streak card (reliable).
    • https://readme-typing-svg.herokuapp.com/?lines=... — animated typing headline (reliable).
    • https://skillicons.dev/icons?i=python,js,nodejs,...&theme=dark&perline=9 — tech-stack icon grid (reliable; cleaner than shields badges).
    • https://komarev.com/ghpvc/?username=USER&label=views — visitor counter (reliable). ⚠️ The public github-readme-stats.vercel.app (stats + top-langs) and github-profile-trophy.vercel.app instances are FREQUENTLY PAUSED/PAYWALLED (503 DEPLOYMENT_PAUSED, 402 Payment required). Do NOT embed them unless you 200-verify first. If down, self-host (fork → Vercel) or leave a hidden HTML comment with the self-host path. Full status + check loop: references/stat-services.md.
  5. Contribution snake — GitHub Action (see references/snake-workflow.md). Publishes SVGs to an output branch; embed with <picture> + prefers-color-scheme for light/dark.
  6. Tech badges grid (shields.io for-the-badge).
  7. Project constellation table (markdown: project | stack | visibility | link) + research/grants table.
  8. Footer: visitor counter (komarev.com/ghpvc), quote, links.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 97 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 37d26804c72a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-profile-readme is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedroiff0/awesome-skills (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,982 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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