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building-github-index
Generate progressive disclosure indexes for GitHub repositories to use as Claude project knowledge. Use when setting up projects referencing external documentation, creating searchable indexes of technical blogs or knowledge bases, combining multiple repos into one index, or when user mentions "index", "github repo", "project knowledge", or "documentation reference".
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 154 stars are split between them (about 15 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 60/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 5d67576760ef, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.scripts/pk_index.py:1
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md, scripts/github_index.py:59, scripts/pk_index.py:31 and 4 more
Web addresses in its code:
- api.github.comSKILL.md:88
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Prompts that use GitHub
Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onebuilding-github-index oaustegard/claude-skills · Skill | 60 | ★ 154 | ≈98 always | 20d ago |
| github HKUDS/nanobot · Skill Also for GitHub | 89 | ★ 49k | ≈23 always | 16d ago |
| search-github NVIDIA-NeMo/DataDesigner · Skill Also for GitHub | 73 | ★ 2.3k | ≈22 always | 16d ago |
| index aerovato/operator-memory · Skill Both about index | 64 | ★ 468 | ≈13 always | 24d ago |
| github-profile jdevalk/skills · Skill Same job: documentation, also for GitHub | 48 | ★ 107 | ≈28 always | 4mo ago |
| agent-skill-trigger-index kunchenguid/firstmate · Skill Both about index | 80 | ★ 8.1k | ≈27 always | 17d ago |