star-updater

star-updater is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vivy-yi/awesome-skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,028 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for refreshing GitHub star counts in a JSON file containing many repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for scheduled or manual star-count updates, synchronising repository data, and comparing growth over time.
Why use it?
It automates checking repositories in batches and records updated counts while handling errors and API rate limits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for scheduled or manual star-count updates, synchronising repository data, and comparing growth over time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vivy-yi/awesome-skills/star-updater
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 vivy-yi/awesome-skills --skill star-updater
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vivy-yi/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,028 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 $0.00113 $0.01028
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00514
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00103

Measured 12d ago against content hash 38406076df51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

star-updater 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 12d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(
.skills/star-updater/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Star Updater

Updates star counts for all repositories in skills.json using GitHub API with proper batching and rate limit handling.

Workflow

1. Read current skills.json

cd /Volumes/waku/github-维护/awesome/awesome-skills-repos
wc -l skills.json
jq length skills.json

2. Run the update script

cd /Volumes/waku/github-维护/awesome/awesome-skills-repos
python3 << 'PYEOF'
import json
import subprocess
import time
from datetime import datetime

REPO_PATH = "/Volumes/waku/github-维护/awesome/awesome-skills-repos/skills.json"
OUTPUT_PATH = REPO_PATH

with open(REPO_PATH, 'r') as f:
    repos = json.load(f)

print(f"Total repos to check: {len(repos)}")

updated = 0
errors = 0
rate_limited = False

for i, repo in enumerate(repos):
    name = repo.get('name', '')
    if not name:
        continue
    
    # Progress indicator
    if i % 50 == 0:
        print(f"Progress: {i}/{len(repos)}...")
    
    try:
        result = subprocess.run(
            ['gh', 'api', f'/repos/{name}'],
            capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=10
        )
        
        if result.returncode == 0:
            data = json.loads(result.stdout)
            new_stars = data.get('stargazers_count', repo.get('stars', 0))
            old_stars = repo.get('stars', 0)
            
            if new_stars != old_stars:
                print(f"  {name}: {old_stars} -> {new_stars}")
                repo['stars'] = new_stars
                repo['last_updated'] = datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
                updated += 1
        elif 'rate limit' in result.stderr.lower() or result.returncode == 403:
            rate_limited = True
            print(f"  Rate limited at {i}/{len(repos)}, waiting 60s...")
            time.sleep(60)
        else:
            errors += 1
            
    except Exception as e:
        errors += 1
        if errors <= 5:
            print(f"  Error {name}: {e}")
    
    # Be nice to GitHub API - 3 req/sec max
    time.sleep(0.3)

# Save updated data
with open(OUTPUT_PATH, 'w') as f:
    json.dump(repos, f, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)

print(f"\n=== Update Complete ===")
print(f"Total repos: {len(repos)}")
print(f"Updated: {updated}")
print(f"Errors: {errors}")

# Generate update summary for commit message
with open('/tmp/star_update_summary.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(f"Updated: {updated}, Errors: {errors}, Total: {len(repos)}\n")
PYEOF

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 12d ago First seen · 134 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 38406076df51

Subscribe to this mod's changes

star-updater is a skill published in the GitHub repository vivy-yi/awesome-skills (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,028 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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