building-github-index

92 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By oaustegard/claude-skills (GitHub) · writing · 158 stars · scanned at commit 487272b

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".

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 5 places.

building-github-index/SKILL.md, line 16python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo -o index.md
building-github-index/SKILL.md, line 53python scripts/github_index.py owner/repo --skip-fetch -o skeleton.md
building-github-index/SKILL.md, line 88curl -sL "https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/git/trees/BRANCH?recursive=1"

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building-github-index/SKILL.md, line 93curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/contents/PATH?ref=BRANCH" \
building-github-index/SKILL.md, line 112python scripts/pk_index.py owner/repo -o repo_pk.md

Sends data to these websites: api.github.com

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 12 places.

building-github-index/SKILL.md, line 88curl -sL "https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/git/trees/BRANCH?recursive=1"
building-github-index/SKILL.md, line 93curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/contents/PATH?ref=BRANCH" \
building-github-index/scripts/github_index.py, line 18import urllib.request

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building-github-index/scripts/github_index.py, line 59req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
building-github-index/scripts/github_index.py, line 61with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as resp:
building-github-index/scripts/github_index.py, line 80req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
building-github-index/scripts/github_index.py, line 81with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
building-github-index/scripts/github_index.py, line 298lines.append('curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/contents/PATH?ref=BRANCH" \\')
building-github-index/scripts/pk_index.py, line 12import urllib.request
building-github-index/scripts/pk_index.py, line 31req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={'Accept': 'application/vnd.github+json'})
building-github-index/scripts/pk_index.py, line 32with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
building-github-index/scripts/pk_index.py, line 173f'Fetch: `curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/PATH?ref={ref}" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" | python3 -c "import sys,json,b

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plugins/github-and-git/skills/building-github-index 92/100 · Low risk

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'building-github-index' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'building-github-index' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named building-github-index already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '487272b6d1d9a2c5248d9adfa2d7765f8ca2b6af' -- 'building-github-index' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'building-github-index' ~/.agents/skills/'building-github-index' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'building-github-index' ~/.claude/skills/'building-github-index' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`487272b`	92
2026-11-07	`2ef3d1f`	92