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am-will·vlatest·backend

Analyzes GitHub repository code, commit history, and issues to extract project context and identify potential integration points.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add am-will/codex-skills --skill read-github -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

am-will

Taken from the source listing. We haven't verified who controls this account.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: gitmcp.io.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    gitmcp.ioundeclaredgithub.comsource host

    What it found

    • skills/read-github/scripts/gitmcp.py:29contacts gitmcp.io
      return f"https://gitmcp.io/{parts[0]}/{parts[1]}"
    • skills/read-github/scripts/gitmcp.py:30contacts gitmcp.io
      return f"https://gitmcp.io/{url_or_path}"

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned am-will/codex-skills at 9f954c3b63.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
9f954c3b63
Manifest
skills/read-github/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 369 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

What it does

The read-github skill enables AI agents to fetch and parse data from GitHub repositories, including reading files, extracting metadata, and retrieving commit history. It supports direct access to public repositories and can be configured for private repos with proper authentication.

When to use it

  • You need to analyze the contents of a GitHub repository for code review or documentation purposes.
  • Your AI agent must extract specific files or data from a project hosted on GitHub.
  • You want to track changes in a repository by retrieving commit history and diffs.

Key capabilities

  • Fetch repository metadata (e.g., name, owner, description).
  • Read individual files from a repository's file tree.
  • Retrieve commit history and diffs for specific branches or files.
  • Support for both public and private repositories with authentication.

Example prompts

  • "Read the README.md file from the am-will/codex-skills GitHub repository."
  • "Show me the latest 5 commits in the main branch of the read-github project."
  • "Extract all Python files from the src directory of this GitHub repo."

Tips & gotchas

  • Ensure proper authentication is set up for private repositories to avoid access errors.
  • Be mindful of rate limits imposed by GitHub's API when making frequent requests.