Agent skill

GitHub Trending

by hoodini in hoodini/ai-agents-skills

Fetch and display GitHub trending repositories and developers.

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Install GitHub Trending

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hoodini/ai-agents-skills --skill github-trending -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hoodini/ai-agents-skills github-trending --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoodini/ai-agents-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/github-trending .claude/skills/github-trending && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
github-trending
GitHub stars
281
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
152 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Fetch and display GitHub trending repositories and developers.

  • Works in 5 steps: No Official API: GitHub's trending page… → Rate Limiting: Respect GitHub's servers… → HTML Structure Changes: GitHub may… → …
  • Building dashboards showing trending repos
  • SKILL.md covers Important Note, Approach 1: Direct Web…, Approach 2: GitHub Search API… and Next.js API Route (Server-Side…, plus 3 more sections
  • Reaches github.com and api.github.com; needs GITHUB_TOKEN

What it does

GitHub Trending is an agent skill from hoodini/ai-agents-skills. Fetch and display GitHub trending repositories and developers. Use when building dashboards showing trending repos, discovering popular projects, or tracking GitHub trends. Triggers on GitHub trending, trending repos, popular repositories, GitHub discover.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Web scraping. It works with GitHub. The repository describes itself as: 🧠 AI Agent Skills Repository - A curated collection of specialized skills for AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf). Created by Yuval Avidani using…

When your agent uses it

  • Building dashboards showing trending repos
  • Discovering popular projects
  • Tracking GitHub trends
  • GitHub trending

Example prompts

  • “/github-trending”

Requirements

  • A credential in GITHUB_TOKEN

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. No Official API: GitHub's trending page has no official API - scraping is the only option
  2. Rate Limiting: Respect GitHub's servers - cache aggressively
  3. HTML Structure Changes: GitHub may change their HTML - monitor for breakages
  4. User-Agent: Always include a User-Agent header
  5. Server-Side Only: Do scraping server-side to avoid CORS issues

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit f7a43d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • github.com
    • api.github.com

    Also links to:

    • docs.github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • GITHUB_TOKEN

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

GitHub Trending loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 152 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 152 words (~2,160 tokens).

“Access GitHub trending repositories and developers data.”

— opening of SKILL.md by hoodini
name
github-trending

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/github-trending of hoodini/ai-agents-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit f7a43d8

Compare with similar skills

GitHub Trending next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Multi Account Scrapingantibrow/anti-detect-browser-skills932—~3.7kAutomated safety check: WarnMIT
Octocode Scrapingbgauryy/octocode949—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Crawler Sanctionsopensanctions/opensanctions832—~1.9kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT

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Questions about GitHub Trending

What does GitHub Trending do?

Fetch and display GitHub trending repositories and developers. GitHub Trending is an agent skill from hoodini/ai-agents-skills. Fetch and display GitHub trending repositories and developers.

When should I use GitHub Trending?

GitHub Trending fits situations like: building dashboards showing trending repos; discovering popular projects; tracking GitHub trends; GitHub trending.

How do I install GitHub Trending in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hoodini/ai-agents-skills --skill github-trending -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/github-trending in hoodini/ai-agents-skills) into .claude/skills/github-trending in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install GitHub Trending in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hoodini/ai-agents-skills --skill github-trending -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/github-trending in hoodini/ai-agents-skills) into .agents/skills/github-trending in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use GitHub Trending in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add hoodini/ai-agents-skills --skill github-trending -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/github-trending, .gemini/skills/github-trending, .github/skills/github-trending and .opencode/skills/github-trending in your project.

What does GitHub Trending need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, GitHub Trending needs credentials named GITHUB_TOKEN. Our summary lists: A credential in GITHUB_TOKEN.

Does GitHub Trending access the network?

SKILL.md names 3 domains. In commands or code: github.com and api.github.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: docs.github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is GitHub Trending safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does GitHub Trending use?

No licence was found for GitHub Trending or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does GitHub Trending use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to GitHub Trending?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with GitHub Trending: Dev Pain Finder (tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook, 2.2k stars), Crawler Pep (opensanctions/opensanctions, 832 stars), Multi Account Scraping (antibrow/anti-detect-browser-skills, 932 stars) and Octocode Scraping (bgauryy/octocode, 949 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains GitHub Trending?

hoodini (a GitHub user) maintains it in hoodini/ai-agents-skills, which has 281 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 11, 2026.

Source: hoodini/ai-agents-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.